Limited Special for EdTechTeam SA Summit

Limited Special: Use the code "friend" when you register for early bird discount! Also: NEW Pre-Summit Workshops Announced! Dainfern College  July 3 & 4, 2014     We invite you to join us for the second annual  EdTechTeam South Africa Summit featuring Google for Education to be hosted by SchoolNet South Africa at  Dainfern College in Johannesburg on July 3 & 4, 2014. This high intensity two day event focuses...

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DBE and DOC partner with Telkom to rollout 2010 FIFA World Cup Legacy E-Connectivity Project in Schools

The Department of Communications in partnership with the Department of Basic Education has been rolling out end-to-end ICT solutions to selected schools. The selected schools received (and are in the process of receiving) connectivity and hardware, free. Telkom SA has been selected to provide the installations and equipment to the allocated schools in the country with the best construction and roofing companies read this for more info. Intel South Africa is providing free teacher training on the provide...

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SchoolNet Conference Report

The vast auditorium at the University of the Free State campus in Bloemfontein was almost filled to capacity on the first morning of the national, ‘ICT in the Classroom’ conference hosted by SchoolNet South Africa from 2 – 4 July. ...

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SchoolNet Platform Independence

At a meeting with vendors on 21 February 2013 SchoolNet SA explained that our core objective is to empower teachers and learners to effectively use technology to enhance education. Whilst SchoolNet is not a hardware provider nor a content developer, we are willing and able to work with vendors on joint projects if the mutual goal is to improve education. SchoolNet SA is proud of its long association with existing partners but is also willing to explore other partnerships across platforms and devices in or...

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Technology Broadband and Education: Advancing the Education for All Agenda

This UNESCO report from the Broadband Commission Working Group on Education begins with a brief overview of the rationale for expanding and improving the use of ICTs in education. It stresses that participation in the global economy is increasingly dependent on the 21st-century skill of navigating the digital world. The report was commissioned in 2011 and was released on 27 February 2013. ...

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Invitation to i*EARN Learning Circles

Learning Circles are highly interactive, project-based partnerships among a small number of schools located throughout the world. Over 15 weeks, you and your students will have a chance to work with a small number of classrooms from around the world on a Learning Circle theme of your choice. You are invited to join a Learning Circle. ...

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Two SchoolNet Premium Members Become Global Lead Teachers

We are very proud of two of our Premium Members who have been highlighted as ‘Global Lead Teachers’ in the Global Classroom Project. Karen Stadler is the ICT Integration Co-ordinator for Elkanah House’s Senior Primary campus in Cape Town. She keeps a blog called All Things ICT.  Brenda Hallowes is from Cotswold Preparatory School in Port Elizabeth and we featured one of her posts about their mystery Skype session on our SchoolNet blog recently. ...

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Touchable Earth Touches Down in SA

SchoolNetters will remember in July we reported about the development of a digital world atlas application for tablets that would allow children from around the world to teach each other about their own countries.  Now  the developer,  Tudor Clee has made another flying visit to South Africa; this time to donate 10 Google Nexus tablets to each of the schools that took part in the creation of videos for the world atlas app. ...

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