Lesotho teachers create stories for Matutoâ„¢ Literacy for Life (and you can too!)
Submitted by Megan Rademeyer
The teachers and final year Lesotho College of Education teaching students who received Windows 8 mobile phones as part of the Matutoâ„¢ Literacy for Life partnership last year are hard at work creating short stories to share with emerging readers. Feedback from this group led to the creation of the Chekhov Phone App which makes it easy to create and publish a story from a Windows 8 mobile phone. Whilst SchoolNet SA is specifically encouraging Lesotho teachers to share their ...Read more
Submitted by Hlengiwe Mafeka from SchoolNet
Teachers in the Cofimvaba ICT4RED project schools have been methodically working through modules of their professional development course since July 2013.
Gallery walk
Preparing for the Gallery Walk
The seventh and the eighth module sessions of the ICT4RED Cofimvaba Teacher Professional Development were conducted at Queens College in Queenstown on Saturday 1 February 2014. Module 8 (which was conducted in the morning session...
Submitted by Megan Rademeyer
Five schools in Mankweng, Limpopo are to be provided with connectivity and Microsoft Windows 8 devices through the TV White Spaces pilot project. SchoolNet SA has been appointed to provide professional development to teachers from these schools to help ensure that they maximise the benefits that a connected classroom bring to education.
So far champion teachers from each of the schools have attended the ICT Skills for Teachers course and in the coming months ...
This was an email received by SchoolNet about the Young African Leadership Initiative.
“We wanted to make you aware of a new flagship program of President Obama’s Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI), the 2014 Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders (“Washington Fellowshipâ€). President Obama launched YALI in 2010 to support young African leaders, strengthen democratic governance, and enhance peace and security across Africa. For more information about YALI, please visit http:...
Five schools in Limpopo are each being provided with internet connectivity through the TV White Spaces Initiative as well as a bank of Windows 8 Devices per school and access to the Office 365 A2 Education Plan. To ensure that this equipment and connectivity are used for anytime, anywhere learning SchoolNet SA has been appointed by Microsoft to provide training and mentorship to the teachers involved in this project. Teachers have already started with the ‘Partners in Learning ICT Skills for Teachersâ€...
Intel SA recently donated 40 classmate computers with full wifi to Muzomuhle Primary School, a public sector school in Diepsloot West. The classmate computers are pre-installed with the Department of Basic Education’s interactive workbooks and a teacher console that will help with classroom management and administration. The school has a population of 1854 learners and the school decided that they would start implementation in the seven grade 3 classes.
SchoolNet SA will help the 52 teac...
The North West Department of Education contracted the hardware vendor, MIB in order to equip seventy schools in the province with banks of android tablets and the Train your Brain portal, a repository of digital educational content that is aligned to the national curriculum.
SchoolNet was commissioned to provide master training for the project’s facilitators, in order to develop capacity predominantly among district officials. This took place from 29 September until 4 October 2013 at Boshda...
Zamuthule Primary School is situated in Mpophomeni Township in the KZN Midlands. The school has a total number of 14 educators including the principal Mr P Ngema. A total number of 37 netbooks, one teacher laptop and a wireless internet connection were all sponsored by Mustek. Furthermore Mustek requested that SchoolNet SA conduct a Teacher Professional Development for all educators at the school.
More than 90% of the teachers ha...
South Africa’s Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) is providing multimedia tablets and training to 160 teachers at 11 schools in the Eastern Cape as part of a project that aims to develop a mobile teaching model that can be applied countrywide. This very successful project is known as the ICT4RED project which aims to support education in rural areas using ICT’s and especially Android tablets. SchoolNet conducts the ICT4RED Teacher Professional Development in Queen...
On 7 November 2013 in Johannesburg, South Africa, Intel South Africa launched the Intel Explore and Learn Marketplace. This is great news for South African educators and learners. This post focuses on the report provided by Intel South Africa.
What is the Intel Explore and Learn Marketplace?
This is a new education solution that provides access to a vast repository of free and low-cost digital text books and learning resources. The solution, designed for learners of all ages, provides rich, interac...
