Anglo Platinum Community Project takes Intel professional development to teachers in Limpopo and NorthWest
Anglo Platinum has a passionate commitment to the communities in the vicinities of its mines. Recently SchoolNet SA was contracted by Anglo Platinum to provide professional development to teachers from 226 schools who had received ICT equipment as part of Anglo Platinum’s social responsibility framework. The intention of this initiative is to uplift and support specifically targeted communities in the North West (Bojanala District) and in Limpopo (Waterberg, Greater Sekhukhune and Capricorn Districts)....Read more
The Mpumalanga Department of Education has embarked upon a pilot project that involves equipping schools with technology and access to the 2Enable app and empowering teachers with the skills to use the content available through the app to enhance teaching and learning. Microsoft commissioned SchoolNet SA to develop a course called Using Digital Resources in the Classroom that aims to equip participants with the skills to effectively use digital content learning resources in the classroom. On 2 and 3 June...
SchoolNet SA recently ran a Microsoft Partners in Learning HelpDesk course with 27 out-of-school youth from the villages surrounding the Buffleshoek Trust’s nine partner schools. The training, led by Trainer Themba Mabaso, took place at the Acorns to Oaks Comprehensive High School in Acornhoek. The training included a beginners guide to computer hardware, supporting networked computers, installing an operating system and supporting hardware. As part of the course students were required to dismantle com...
Telkom Foundation in 2014, sponsored ICT infrastructure worth over R 200,000 per winner in each of the twelve categories of the National Teaching Awards. As part of Telkom’s ongoing support in education, they have partnered with Rally2 Read in an attempt to improve literacy in Primary schools and in addition are providing ICT infrastructure that includes content, maintenance, support and a professional development pathway for teachers in project schools.
SchoolNet South Africa has recently been appo...
In August 2015, 131 delegates from teacher centres around South Africa attended the Teacher Centre Managers workshop in Johannesburg with an intention of “Building Functional Teacher Centres and Competent Centre Managers to Support Quality Learning and Teaching”. Over the past three months, SchoolNet SA staff have visited twenty seven Teacher Centres across all nine provinces to see if the centre managers were putting into action what they had learnt and to see first-hand what both th...
This is a message from the SABC Education’s Career Indaba organisers
On 18-19 May South Africa’s No.1 student event, SABC Education Career Indaba, will take over Sandton Convention Centre. With over 3500 visitors already registered to attend, we are taking this year’s Career Indaba to the next level. View some of ouradditional event features below.
Parent Networking Evening
In this dedicated time, parents will have the opportunity to have one-on-one conversations with top employers and edu...
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A happy culmination to the Learning Gains through Play workshop recently took place with Western Cape teachers from Somerset West Methodist, Temperance Town, Nomsa Mapongwana, Christmas Tinto and Solomon Qatyana primary schools.
The workshop was facilitated by SchoolNet’s project manager, Hlengiwe Mfeka as well as Senzo Ngcobo, Tracey Butchart, and Themba Mabaso, and supported by the Metro East Department of Education officials Rodney Nissen, Sipho Didiza and Ja...
Senzo Ngcobo and Gerald Roos went off to Kampala again this month to conduct workshops for the second phase in support the Commonwealth Certificate for Teacher ICT Integration (CCTI). The Ministry of Education and Sports in Uganda had invited 68 participants to take part at the Uganda Technology and Management University (UTAMU) in Kampala, Uganda, from February 16-19, 2015.
The First Follow-up workshop was for the purpose of following up on the first course that participants had experienced and t...
The Commonwealth of Learning and the African Virtual University have teamed up to provide a MOOC (Massive Online Open Course) which is available online and open to anyone who would like to study the course for free. The course is called, “ ‘Using ICTs to enrich teaching and learning’ and will guide participants to study online in an interactive learning environment. The course aims to answer 3 questions: What are ICT’s (module 1), Why use ICTs in teaching and...
This group of first time user teachers in the Port Sheptsone District have been loving the Intel Getting Stared training conducted by Nomty Gaba from SchoolNet.
The training for educators around Port Shepstone District started from the 12th to the 16th January 2015 from 09:00 – 16:00 hrs. There were 20 educators who attended Intel Getting Started course. All participants had no skills and they were first time users. Educators were from Thenjani, Imfume and Magabheni areas. The training i...
