FREE Physical Science textbooks by Siyavula

A group of dedicated and passionate volunteers from Siyavula teamed up to create South Africa’s first, truly-free Physical Science texbooks for Grade 10, 11 and 12 called Everything Science. You can download the textbooks right now using the links below. For learners … For teachers … DOWNLOAD

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, [...]

Free Tech Tool Of The Week #7

Over the past number of months I have been exploring the use of QR codes as a teaching tool. What, you may ask, is a QR code? A QR (Quick Response) code is a symbol which can store alphanumeric data such as website URLs, email addresses, phone numbers and pretty much anything else. They are [...]

ChalkStar – downloadable worksheets for primary school teachers

ChalkStar is a brand new online initiative to help primary school teachers save time and improve lesson quality. GetWings, an online education incubator, is proud to announce the launch of ChalkStar.com, an innovative new online platform for teachers teaching grades R – 12. ChalkStar is a supportive online community that develops new bundles of professional, [...]

Free web-based Science, Biology & Geography simulations

The end is (almost) in sight for the chalkboard with hand-drawn diagrams of the way the world around us works. Thanks to Flash, a fairly simple to use Adobe product, quality interactive simulations are becoming more readily available on the internet that are well suited to classroom teaching. Pearson Education and ForgeFX have teamed up [...]

Curating knowledge: Why structured learning succeeds

By Anna Malczyk The advent of the internet heralded the “information age”, a time when vast quantities of human knowledge were available to anyone with a computer and internet connection. For education, the potential seemed endless: anybody could read and publish anything, meaning that anybody could teach and be taught. However, access did not equal [...]

Gamifying education: Boosting learning with fun

Games are fun. Most people would rather spend their time playing games than working, doing chores, recycling, exercising or helping out at a community centre. However, if there was a way of incorporating the fun elements of games into these mundane or unpleasant activities, it is believed that we would achieve much greater results in [...]

New SA maths software to boost results

“High School Maths is important because it is the most widely used subject in the world. Doing maths helps the mind to reason and organise complicated situations or problems into clear, simple, and logical steps. High paying jobs often demand someone who can take complicated situations and simplify them to the level that everyone can [...]

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