Teachers in South Africa

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This technological shock to our moral codes means that in the future, we are going to have to teach our children well. -- Howard Rheingold This resourve is dated but relevant!

Maggie's personal journey of how, where and when to use web 2.0 tools in support of teaching and learning. Basic ICT tutorials for teachers as well.

FREE worksheets, worksheet creators, printables wizard and on-line teaching materials makers with images from Tools for Educators.com. Use these printout generators, game makers, and programs for teachers to make and print teaching resources with pictures or text. They are simple, but beautiful, versatile and powerful. I hope your students (and you) enjoy the resources.

Join us for another workshop by Vicki Davis, who has been recognized for her innovative use of the Web in the classroom. She describes here the steps necessary to create a Flat Classroom, which is the expansion of your classroom to include global communities and different forms of communication like blogs and wikis.

Convert boring units to real objects as you type! Really does bring size into proportion. Great to uise in the maths lit class!

Evolution....relevant for SA teachers as well

For primary school learners

Here is a quick list of last years Gr 11 exam papers so that we do not have to go and search for it...

'Keeping data secure, safe and legal' is an introductory document that aims to distil the key messages outlined in Data Handling Procedures in Government so they are applicable to schools and is intended for school leaders, senior leadership teams, network managers and other members of staff who have responsibility for handling and securing data.

Teacher concerns about laptops

Great great article with resoruce links about educational blogging

key members of staff. Each of the learning areas need to be represented including computer studies and the teacher librarian should be a significant member of the team. The object of this exercise is for a school to create a policy which is embraced by all educators as information literacy falls across the curriculum and is the responsibility of all. Once a policy has been created an implementation plan should be formulated and introduced with clearly defined time frames.

My School Stuff - your education resource portal

Teachers spend slightly less time on their activities overall, but much less time on teaching than policy requires. There is a serious erosion of instructional time in the majority of schools, but it is worst in rural and semi-rural African schools.