Cape Town-based digital creative agency supports education

Holy Cross Primary in Cape Town is a school without a playground. The school has 600 learners and a staff of 16, as well as about 6,000 square-metres of unusable land in front of the school. The biggest problem is that the land is littered with rubble, glass and rubbish. There remains little other space [...]

5 Higher Ed Tech Trends for 2012

Article written by DA Barber In 2012, higher education institutions will look to improve the learning experience through analytics and personalized learning environments, while reducing costs with digital resources and cloud technologies. Washington, DC-based Gilfus Education Group has released its annual list of the top five trends in education innovation for 2012, which included three [...]

Paperless Exams

This November I ran my second set of paperless exams. Well, not quite paperless, as each student still received a printout of the questions to make it easier for them. They wrote the exam on a computer. All the files necessary to take the exam were posted on Moodle so that they could download the [...]

Should we teach ICTs explicitly?

Every year at about this time, I take some time out to consider whether I still have a job or not. Not because it’s time for my annual performance review, but because, in many ways, if I do my job properly then I shouldn’t have a job at all. All teaching is like this. By [...]

Access vs Equity

It is almost a given these days that in an ideal world, all students should have access to a mobile computing device whenever they need one. There are some teachers who disagree, but that number is dwindling every year. The Indian government has just announced the release of a $35 tablet called the Aakash, or [...]

A look at Khanya and ICT in schools with Kobus van Wyk

I’m privileged to have known Kobus van Wyk, former director of the Khanya Special Project, for a number of years. The Khanya Project has been by far the most successful project of it’s kind in South Africa, overshadowing anything other education departments have attempted. The project, which is coming to an end in March 2012, [...]

The Law Of Thirds

One of the great boons of being an ICT teacher is that all my classes take place in the computer room. I don’t have to wait for the school to adopt a laptop per child programme to get computers into my lessons. In my classes I place all the course content, together with tutorials, SCORMs [...]

Social Media in the classroom?

I can still remember being a part of what is now called the “backchannel” of the school classroom. Like everyone else, I passed notes to my friends and snickered rebelliously when the teacher wasn’t looking. Today, the “backchannel” consists of texting, Tweeting and uploading to Facebook pages.

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