Intel hosts Master training for two courses on the Integration of Tablets in the Classroom
The South African educational world is currently in a precarious position as schools grapple with decisions around BYOD (Bring your own device), tablets vs laptops, WIFI connectivity vs servers etc. In the midst of these dilemmas education professionals firmly believe that without teacher professional development (TPD) there will be insufficient adoption of new technologies to transform teaching and learning, or to make any significant change to our current education system. This Intel master training a...Read more
Learn how to use Google Apps for Education and other technologies to enhance your teaching in engaging sessions led by BrooksfieldSchool.org and Trainers and local GAFE rockstars. Sessions will cover a wide range of applications for beginner and experienced GAFE users, for classroom teachers, administrators, tech coordinators, and anyone interested in learning how Google's free suite of tools for education can enhance student learning.
September 1 | Pre-Summit Workshops | $199/Person...
An excellent research study conducted by Sophia Alexandrina Kousiakis, a Master of Philosophy in Comparative and International Education from the University of Oslo. At a time when globally youth unemployment is on the rise and the needs of youth are moving up on the agenda, the research aims to explore in particular the experiences of marginalized youth in South Africa. Through comparatively exploring the experiences of youth from rural, township and urban backgrounds and their participation in a ...
There are a number of great new Microsoft tools including Sway, Office Mix and OneNote Class Notebook as well as online Microsoft courses including Teaching with Technology and 21st Century Learning Design. Many of these tools and courses are available through the Microsoft Educator Community at no cost to teachers. The intention of the Microsoft Trainer Validation Workshops, which were held in Johannesburg in November 2015 and Nairobi, Kenya in December 2015, were to show trainers and people respon...
Intel Education Summit: SchoolNet’s Executive Director, Janet Thomson was fortunate enough to be invited to Intel’s 12th Education Summit in London in December. The theme was Gaming and Education which related directly to our Learning Gains through Play project and was consequently of immediate and vital interest. Janet’s report contains links to the Summit keynotes and workshop presentations.
Read more about the Gaming in Education Summit on our website here
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Since August 2015, the Department of Telecommunications and Postal Services (DTPS) has been hosting symposiums in various provinces to promote its Gender and ICT Strategy. One of the drivers for change is its offering of Digital Literacy programmes to women to afford them opportunities to leverage the use of ICT skills to seek gainful employment and formulate entrepreneurship thinking in their approach to employment. Three workshops were hosted for women living in or in surrounding areas within Central ...
SchoolNet is now listed on the SchoolAdvisor website which is being hosted by one of the top hosting ranking agencies. This is a new online platform that brings schools and suppliers together, by hosting an ever increasing base of school suppliers and the services that they offer, and allowing schools to search for, get quotes and rate suppliers directly. We believe that this platform will help you to find the best supplier or product for your needs, and ensure that you receive the best service – ...
The Hour of Code movement aims to expose as many people as possible to basic computer programming through completing a series of simple activities that introduce basic computer science concepts which is important for people that develop computer programs or websites for different purposes, from science to gaming services overwatch boosting for the gamers. At the end of 2016, Microsoft commissioned SchoolNet SA to facilitate a series of workshops to get as many learners as possible coding using the materia...
About 140 delegates from 48 countries around the globe gathered at the Grand Hotel Mediterraneo in Florence, Italy on the 12th and 13th of November to attend the 8th Edition of the ICT 4 Language Learning International Conference. More than 70% of the delegates were university representatives. Hlengiwe Mfeka attended the conference as a SchoolNet SA representative to present the DG Murray Trust project "Learning Gains through Play" paper on how Intel tablets and the ...
The Commonwealth of Learning (COL) recently contracted SchoolNet SA to facilitate two workshops for School of Education lecturers at the Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya. SchoolNet's Omashani Naidoo facilitated these workshops which will produce, by January 2016, seven online modules for the School of Education. Each workshop had a different focus and the first served to build ICT integration skills and the second workshop concentrated efforts on affordances for writing online modules with ICTs i...
