NTA Winners attend Innovation Leadership ICTs in Education Conference
As part of the 2018 National Teachers Awards, SchoolNet SA sponsored the three winning teachers in the ICT Enhanced Education category to attend an educational conference of their choice. All three winners chose to attend the inaugural event of the Innovation Leadership ICTs in Education conference which was held at St Dominic’s Priory in Port Elizabeth on 25 and 26 June 2018. Furthermore, as part of the Microsoft YouthSpark project, we sponsored an additional five teachers from under-resourced schools...Read more
SchoolNet SA has been working with teachers from twelve
schools in KwaNdengezi that are supported by the Rotary Club of Pinetown to
make more effective use of digital resources to enhance their teaching. As part
of a Microsoft Philanthropies YouthSpark project, twenty four of these teachers
spent two days of their June holidays learning at Hillcrest High School in
KwaZulu-Natal learning some basic computer science skills that they can share
with their learners when school reopens. SchoolNet SA ...
If you manage your school or organisation’s Facebook page – keep the following tips in mind to help build your community and get your posts read.
Watch your language. Your posts will be read by a wide audience of people who may not be familiar with the jargon and terminology used in your field. Keep your language simple and generic so that a non-expert can understand your posts. Don’t use profanity or your account will be blocked and people may unlike your page.
Give your posts a human fa...
More than 1,5 million non-profit organisations use Facebook Pages to build their communities – including SchoolNet SA. On 26 June 2018 we participated in the Facebook’s NGO Day workshop held at the Raddison Blu Hotel in Sandton #FBNGODAYSA. This workshop included a number of great sessions for representatives of NGOs who are using Facebook to share the work that their organisations are doing with their beneficiaries and funders.
At this workshop, Sam Posselt of Phambano Technology Development Centr...
The Department of Basic Education in South Africa has published a Professional Development Framework for Digital Learning. The aim of this Framework is to build educator competencies in facilitating learning with digital tools and resources.
Some of the topics addressed in the Framework include: the context and scope for digital literacy skills; factors influencing competence in digital literacy; and pedagogical transformation.
Training is underway in NorthWest, KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng to equip pr...
Over two weekends in June 2018, two hundred Eastern Cape teachers attended professional development workshops to build digital skills. These eight training sessions were sponsored by Microsoft, in collaboration with the Eastern Cape Department of Education, to assist teachers to make better use of their Office 365 accounts and the Windows 10 laptops to enhance teaching and learning.
Whilst the Eastern Cape Department of Education eLearning team had already conducted a number of training sessions a...
SchoolNet SA was commissioned by Microsoft to develop the digital skills of displaced teachers in the Eastern Cape. Specifically, it was hoped that these displaced teachers could assist the Eastern Cape Department of Education’s eLearning team with training teachers in the province to make better use of Microsoft tools and their Windows 10 devices. The capacity building sessions for 52 displaced teachers took place between 27 and 31 May 2018 at the East London Leadership Institute in East London.
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The annual CuriosITy dinner – which was hosted by Bresica House School on 30 May 2018 – gives grade 11 girls who are taking either CAT or IT an opportunity to network with women in the IT industry. This year, a series of hands-on workshops took place prior to the dinner to provide the girls, and their teachers, with an opportunity to try out a range of digital tools.
174 girls and their 50 teachers who attended the workshops were each able to select three 40 minute sessions from the follo...
In May and June 2018 two groups of FET KwaZulu-Natal Subject Advisors, completed the five-day Intel Tablets in the Classroom at the Ukhahlamba Education Centre in Bergville, facilitated by Hlengiwe Mfeka and Senzo Ngcobo of SchoolNet SA. This blogpost highlights some of the modules that were used to familiarize subject advisors with the features of tablets and strategies for teaching and learning in mobile environments.
Getting to know their tablets and classmates
In the icebreaker activity, delegates...
April 2018 was a busy media month for SchoolNet – and you may have seen us on TV or heard us talking about our Learning Gains Through Play project on the radio.
The impetus
The need to share important findings from research conducted over four years as part of the DG Murray Trust-funded study on Learning Gains through Play prompted SchoolNet South Africa to issue a press release in April 2018.
This project had shown that exposure to digital educational apps and Xbox Kinect games had significantly i...
