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Harness the web with UCT’s Internet Super-User course and get a 10% discount! True teachers Select and treat your teachers well
 
Harness the web with UCT’s Internet Super-User course and get a 10% discount!

Harness the web with UCT’s Internet Super-User course and get a 10% discount!

Teachers are on a technological front line – school children are becoming ever more adept at using the web for everything from socialising to doing their homework, and are beginning to resist what they consider “old fashioned” teaching methods. Teachers must find a way to engage them on their own terms, but often lack the web skills and experience to do so effectively. The solution is to get a comprehensive web education. GetSmarter’s UCT Internet Super-User course gives you just that.

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True teachers

True teachers

I write this as an ex-teacher and headmaster of 40 years' experience, whose family has been involved with education for many years. A recent comment in one of the newspapers that the dropping of OBE was not a cure-all has prompted me to write in support. While acknowledging the inequalities in education, one has at the same time to give credit to the role played by dedicated teachers. Apart from the hard work in the classroom, true teachers willingly participate in helping to organise sport and cultural activities. It seems to me that many teachers today are in it for all the wrong reasons.

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Select and treat your teachers well

Select and treat your teachers well

Why does Singapore lead the world in student achievement? It's all got to do with teacher quality. In Singapore, only the top third of secondary school graduates can apply for teacher training. And teaching is paid as well as science and engineering careers.

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Obami.com breaks ground in eLearning space

Obami.com breaks ground in eLearning space

02 August 2010

South Africa’s school-orientated social networking site, Obami.com, has added a new feature to its offering that promises to boost educators and students’ productivity, while providing for a more streamlined process for the setting, submission and assessment of school assignments.

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Changes to the curriculum in 2011

20 July 2010

There is much confusion about the actual changes to the school curriculum in 2011 and beyond. I for one am happy to be referring to "learning areas" as "subjects" again! Here is the official statement from the Department of Basic Education concerning the changes taking place to the curriculum. Share it with your colleagues who may still be in the dark.

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Kamp Komputer-Kamer

20 July 2010

Software is expensive. Schools have budgets. Educational software is also expensive. Schools buy educational software. Which means schools have budgets for educational software. And so they should. There are many excellent products out there, each adding their own flavour of value to varying aspects of the academic environment. But are these resources being fully maximised?

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MySchool partners with EvaluNet

MySchool partners with EvaluNet

15 July 2010

MySchool, South Africa’s biggest community support and fundraising programme, has recently committed to a partnership with EvaluNet. Soon the GetAhead range of educational software will be made available to MySchool supporters throughout South Africa at an exclusive discount, plus it will benefit the MySchool community programme.

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Formatting for results

Formatting for results

12 July 2010

Many years ago I decided something had to be done about the scrappy, incomplete and useless literature notebooks belonging to my weaker pupils. Every year it was the same story. The year would start off well: logical, legible notes would be written in the first two, or maybe three, pages but gradually, as books were left at home or someone was absent or the day was hot and I was boring, the notes descended into chaos.

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The most boring book I’ve ever read

The most boring book I’ve ever read

12 July 2010

“Sir, this is the most boring book I’ve ever read!”  I chirped my matric English teacher. “It’s got no relevance to us,” I continued as we plodded our way through another double period taking turns to read sections from “Shades”, our English set work book. The monotonous drone that was the tone in which most [...]

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Teacher Laptop Initiative

12 July 2010

The ELRC and consortiums involved in the Teacher Laptop Initiative (TLI) have agreed that it is necessary to hold a roll out launch of the TLI so as to increase teachers’ awareness of the TLI. Due to the delays in rolling out the TLI many teachers have lost interest in the project. It was initially proposed that a roll-out launch would take place provincially, however, for a number reasons, that will not be possible. A national Roll Out Launch has been arranged for 15 July 2010 and will take place in Pretoria.

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A passion for science

12 July 2010

After 6 soccer filled weeks you may be ready for Physics, Food, Penguins and a passion for science! From the 18 – 19 July, versatile Physics Professor, Peter Barham of Bristol University UK, renowned for delivering edutaining demonstrations in restaurants, bars, lecture halls and classrooms, will visit the Sci-Bono Discovery Centre.

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