‘e-Cheating’ students harness high-tech tools

Students are utilizing advances in technology and sophisticated electronics to develop new cheating methods that deceive educators.

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 [...]

Learning to Change – Changing to Learn

This video motivates the need for a re-evaluation of the classroom for an ever changing learner. We have a responsibility to really look at how we might make learning more inspiring, more related to what learners already know and more related to what they are interested in.

You’re a teacher. Deal with it.

My gripe with teachers is that many of them always seem to view the teaching profession as something that’s gone to the dogs. I suppose I’m generalising here, because even in the work place (i.e. business) there are people who absolutely despise their jobs to the point of rather wanting to work on a kibbutz or log pine trees somewhere in remote Siberia while drinking vodka and singing the “Volga Boatmen’s Song”.

Yo, Pravin! Tax the fatcats so every kid can have a computer

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.

DG defends SA teachers

The majority of South Africa’s teachers are dedicated professionals who give of their best at all times and serve the needs of their pupils, acting basic education director-general Bobby Soobrayan said on Thursday. Reacting to media reports – following a presentation to a parliamentary portfolio committee on Wednesday, at which he tabled a document stating [...]

Too many teachers below par: department

Too many school teachers cannot pass the tests their pupils sit, the basic education department said on Wednesday. There are also serious problems with teachers’ commitment to their tasks, according to a document tabled by the department’s acting director general, Bobby Soobrayan, at a briefing for members of Parliament’s basic education portfolio committee. “Too many [...]

Stay and invest, don’t drop and go

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 [...]

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You’re a teacher. Deal with it.

Yo, Pravin! Tax the fatcats so every kid can have a computer

DG defends SA teachers

Too many teachers below par: department

Stay and invest, don’t drop and go

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