With the increase of internet usage by children at home and at school, teachers should ensure that steps are taken to protect learners from all types of online risks that can pose a serious threat information and data stored on computers. The free GetSmarter Guide to Online Safety includes advice on all types of online risks, and offers plenty of practical advice on keeping yourself and your data even more secure.

This ultra cool science periodic table is great for a quick summary for each element. Clicking on an element in the periodic table gives you background information about the element. It’s an excellent, interactive way of helping learners both remember and understand the elements.

In my opinion, teaching is one of the most demanding and difficult of all jobs. The internet is making things a little easier though. We’ve searched the web high and low to find some useful online applications and resources that integrate well into the school environment. If you’re a tech savvy teacher, you’ll most likely find some of these tools to be really useful.

Most schools decide that the only thing that should be taught in a computer centre is computer related skills. Are there common guidelines for what needs to be taught/covered/acquired by the time a learner graduates to grade 8? Most schools follow their own ’syllabus’, some (at huge expense) pay for programs which very cleverly link the curriculum to computer literacy, and others still are not sure what skills they should be doing at all. What does the Education Department have to say about this?

Englishnet is a new website created by English teachers, for English teachers. It was created specifically to host resources for the teaching of the  South African English Language curriculum. This website offers a range of resources from lesson plans, to programmes of assessment, electronic marksheets, specific lessons on the prescribed literature, etc. It also has [...]

Ok, Jake and you okes. Cool it. Lissin up. Stilte. Thula. Shuddap, bliksems! Can the suits from Vodacom and MTN at the back put away their free mobiles? I want to talk about kids and computers and how every kid should have one. Unless they do, they’ll remain peasants in some 19th century backwater.

Teachers go crazy for educational software. I’ve witnessed this first hand. As I sell educational software for EvaluNet, this obviously encourages me.
The crux of the matter however, is that there are too many schools out there who have too many educational software products that they just don’t use – either because they don’t have time, [...]

In my four years of working at EvaluNet, and visiting literally hundreds of schools across the country, I often come across schools that have spent tens of thousands of rands on educational software and hardware that was promised to be of immense value but turned out to be a massively useless white elephant.
The problem lies [...]