Teachers in South Africa

This Webinar will discuss the challenges and opportunities concerning global education.

Teachers are the largest professionally trained group in the world, yet teacher training is often spotty, inconsequential, or missing entirely. We've all had a teacher who made the difference. Teachers Without Borders' founder, Dr. Mednick, will show the connection between excellent teachers and human welfare, on a global level. The message is clear: focus on the teachers as the most viable catalysts for positive change.

I really have to smile at this article. I have been begging teachers to take note and "get with the programme", but instead they responded with a call to ban cellphones. Hallooo! It is not going to stop the cheating and as the report state it does not just include cellphones, it includes the internet as well. Shall we also just ban the internet too? I can understand that the students do not view it as cheating, they feel that they are actually being innovative (if not creative) and it is their teachers problem if they are not bringing technology into the equation. I think we should think about the way we assess.... I need to go blog about this.....;-)

I really have to smile at this article. I have been begging teachers to take note and "get with the programme", but instead they responded with a call to ban cellphones. Hallooo! It is not going to stop the cheating and as the report state it does not just include cellphones, it includes the internet as well. Shall we also just ban the internet too? I can understand that the students do not view it as cheating, they feel that they are actually being innovative (if not creative) and it is their teachers problem if they are not bringing technology into the equation. I think we should think about the way we assess.... I need to go blog about this.....or maybe I should just go and plagarise someones post- which will be more fun....????? ;-)

The 2008 mathematics matric exam has attracted considerable attention and debate. This short article seeks to contribute to the debate.

A study to investigate changes in attitudes towards methods of disciplining school pupils among South Africans aged 16 years and older, by Mbithi wa Kivilu and Muchiri Wandai, was drawn from the annual SASAS between 2003 and 2006. The study also included other influences, such as religion, gender, and race on these attitudes.

The team had found underlying dysfunctionality at rural and township schools, and teachers were spending less time in the classroom and more time on administration. The culture of teaching and learning had disappeared in most rural and township schools.

To enhance governance and service delivery through the use of knowledge as a fundamental resource in development and establish KM platforms to create access to existing networks and to facilitate the sharing and utilisation of knowledge.

What is Social Learning? An Overview social Here are some introductory presentations about organisational social learning, social learning platforms and the new role of social learning professionals.

A detailed set of instructions of how to use nimbuzz in the classroom as well as why we should use it!

Facilitating Online is a course intended for training educators as online facilitators of fully online and mixed mode courses. The Centre for Educational Technology (CET) produced a Course Leader's Guide as an Open Educational Resource to assist educators and trainers who wish to implement a course on online facilitation within their institution or across several institutions. The guide contains the course model, week-by-week learning activities, general guidance to the course leader on how to implement and customise the course and specific guidelines on each learning activity.

This word list focuses on computer programming. Words are listed with the original English followed by the Afrikaans equivalent. Take note that most Delphi components are not translated and some concepts listed here are usually used to explain rather than substitute terms. For example Button to describe the button component in Delphi. Hierdie woordelys fokus op rekenaarprogrammering. Woorde word gelys met die Engels gevolg deur die Afrikaanse ekwivalent. Neem kennis dat die meeste Delphi-komponente se name nie vertaal word nie en dat sommige van die konsepte hier gelys gebruik word vir verduideliking en nie om terme te vervang nie. Byvoorbeeld Button vir die knoppie komponent in Delphi.

Waagmoediges ′kan hier ′n oorspronklike gedig of kortverhaal publiseer en dit aan die genade van die ′kritici′ oor te laat om dit te beoordeel. Die belangrikste is egter om nie tou op te gooi nie en opbouende kritiek te waardeer. Moontlik ontdek die publiek jou en word jou ambisies om as ′n digter of skrywer van formaat gereken te word, gouer gerealiseer as wat jy verwag.

MXit launched its instant mobile book to encourage global teenage literacy while being part of a ground-breaking maths initiative in which Grade 9 and 10 pupils taking part in a pilot project exercise have access to 22 500 mathematical problems.

The Internet is a useful and important part of our daily lives. Many can't remember how we handled even the most mundane tasks without online assistance. How did we even survive when we were kids? :-) However, along with the good, there is bad. Children and teens (but not their parents!) are very well versed in using the Internet, including web pages, blogs, uploading and downloading information, music and photos, etc. They are also trusting. This presentation will give an overview of the Internet and the inherent dangers. Learn the realities and dangers of ``virtual communities'' websites your kids frequent like Xanga.com, MySpace.com and FaceBook.com. Learn about the persistence of information on the net and Google hacking. Learn the differences between a wiki, blog, Instant Messaging, text messaging, and chat. Learn the Internet slang, key warning signs, and tips for Parents and Kids. This talk is for anyone who has a child, who knows a child, or who ever was a child!