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The RPL Conundrum -Recognition of Prior Learning in a Teacher Upgrading Programme
The practice of Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) in the education of adults seeks to affirm and accredit the knowledge and skills which they have already attained in the course of their working lives. This monograph explores the implementation of RPL in a programme designed to upgrade tens of thousands of under-qualified teachers and finds a baffling dilemma: how does one value prior learning which one believes to be misguided, outdated, or inappropriate?
tags: rpl, education, ebook, ebooks, school2.0
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Educator Supply and Demand in the South African Public Education System :: Integrated report
Education plays a key role in the development of any society. Responding to the need for empirical evidence on the demand for and supply of public educators in South Africa, the Education Labour Relations Council (ELRC) commissioned the Human Sciences Research Council-led consortium to conduct nation-wide research on the factors determining educator supply and demand in South African public education system. Growth demand for educators depends on learner enrolments and the learner-educator ratio, while replacement demand for educators depends on employment trends, demographics and attrition (including morbidity and morality). Educator supply depends on a number of factors, such as education graduates, morbidity and morality, and educators returning after a break from the profession
tags: school2.0
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Educator workload in South Africa
Teachers spend slightly less time on their activities overall, but much less time on teaching than policy requires. There is a serious erosion of instructional time in the majority of schools, but it is worst in rural and semi-rural African schools.
tags: school2.0
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Free Technology for Teachers: Eats, Shoots & Leaves Punctuation Game
tags: school2.0, education, games, languages, english
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Open Options | Arguments about open source
The table below summarizes some arguments about open source, with links to more detailed discussion. These arguments describe the best examples of current open source and proprietary software. Each argument has been rated as true, false, or maybe, based on its validity and relevance to schools. The most important arguments are marked
tags: saschools, school2.0, opensource
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Integrating Video Production into Curriculum and Classroom Activities
Integrating Video Production into Curriculum and Classroom Activities A live webinar
tags: saschoolsws, workshops, school2.0
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SCoPE: Managing Multimembership in Social Networks: Oct 27-Nov 9, 2008
How do you track and keep up with blog conversations? How do you manage your time as you engage in social networks? What are our limits as we integrate social learning into our work environments? When you do find yourself becoming disconnected from your networks and organized activities, how do you return to the fray? As facilitators how do you manage multimembership for your participants?
Many of us confess to fumbling along and we engage in multiple networks. Yet, many networks are essential for the projects, sectors and people that we work with, and for staying abreast of hot issues. Multi-membership and multi-platform overload is becoming a BIG challenge!
During this 2-week discussion we invite you to share tips for managing participation in social networks. This seminar is organized as part of the Facilitating Online Communities course mini-conference. .
tags: PD, school2.0, saschools, SocialNetworking, selfmanagement, workshops
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Top News – ‘Digital Disconnect’ divides kids, educators
Students and educators disagree on whether their schools are preparing graduates adequately for the jobs of the 21st century, a speaker at an Oct. 15 webcast said.
Two-thirds of principals in a recent survey said they believe their school is preparing students to be competitive in the global workforce. But most tech-savvy students didn’t share that view, said Julie Evans, CEO of Project Tomorrow (formerly known as NetDay).
tags: 21stcenturylearning, school2.0, saschools
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Digital Gadgets & Podcasting in the Classroom -a Guide for Educators
There are many handheld devices and digital “gadgets” available to support all types of new teaching and learning initiatives. This pages will provide links to some of the resource pages specifically designed to enhance the use of these devices in the K-12 classroom. From Kathy Schrock
tags: gadgets, technology, education, podcasting, resources, Classroom, school2.0, mobile, saschools, m-learning
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Igniting Student Creativity Through Digital Storytelling
Tools and resources for digital storytelling
tags: english, storytelling, school2.0, education, creativity
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MyRead – a reading resource site
Stategies for teaching reasing in the middle years
tags: english, reading, school2.0
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Educator Resource Sharing Website
My School Stuff – your education resource portal
tags: saschools, school2.0
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Developing a School or District Technology Plan
ISSUE: To realize the benefits of technology, schools must develop a plan for integrating technology into the curriculum. An effective technology plan is based on the shared vision of educators, parents, community members, and business leaders who have technological expertise. It ensures that technology strengthens existing curricula and supports meaningful, engaged learning for all students. It also specifies how the technology will be paid for and how its use will be supported.
tags: policy, technologyplan, techplanning, techplan, saschools, school2.0
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What schoolnet SA offers
tags: school2.0, saschools, PD, schoolnet
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ict-sustainability » Findings from Research
tags: ict, ictsustainability, school2.0, saschools
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School ICT Plans
The School ICT Plans are mandatory annual resourcing plans by all schools, detailing how they intend to allocate resources to meet their individual targets for each ICT Driver. They are integral to each school’s annual planning process.
tags: ict, policy, saschools, school2.0, nepadschools
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A template on creating a Whole School Information Literacy Policy
key members of staff. Each of the learning areas need to be represented including computer studies
and the teacher librarian should be a significant member of the team. The object of this exercise is for a
school to create a policy which is embraced by all educators as information literacy falls across the curriculum and is the responsibility of all. Once a policy has been created an implementation plan should be formulated and introduced with clearly defined time frames.
tags: ICT policy, school2.0, saschools, nepadschools, policy
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What is a school ICT policy?
A whole-school ICT policy sets out the rationale for the teaching and learning of ICT in the school and the aims and objectives for ICT use. It gives clear guidance on the measures that need to be in place if the requirements of the policy are to be met.
tags: ict, policy, saschools, school2.0, doe
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Centre4 PD
CORE Education is a not for profit educational research, development and implementation organisation in New Zealand. CORE aims to provide educators with the quality professional learning opportunity in an online context. Centre4 acts as the portal to this e-learning world and you are welcome to explore it in the areas that interest you. While many communities are open to the wider public, some areas have restricted access for project participants. Their purposes are indicated below.
You will also find a wide range of online conferences and seminars which are both current and archived. We welcome you to participate with us in extending the effective use of learning communities across the wider educational community.
tags: pd, professional development, school2.0
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Methodology for ICT implementation in schools
tags: khanya, ICT, sustainability, school2.0, saschools
Wikipedia is a free multilingual encyclopedia with over 10 million articles that have been collaboratively written by volunteers from around the world, and almost all of its articles can be edited by anyone who can access the Wikipedia website (Source Wikipedia). For me however it provides a good place to kick off whatever research you want your leanrers to engage in. It is therefore a wonderful safe place to start your information journey (please, not as an end in itself!)
