School 2.0 in South Africa

My wonderful inspirational friend Laurie (otherwise known as Dr Maths on Mxit) has come up with another great idea to keep our kids occupied and busy during the soccer holidays! They (The Meraka Institute) are offering winter school assistance in IT/CAT, Maths, Physics, Chemistry and Accounting via their Mxit learning platform. The kids are going [...]

The new thumbtribe generation has embraced an innovative way to slay their age old enemy- maths, using their cellphones and the much debated and severely fouled, Mxit! Mxit has been getting a lot of bad press ever since it became the craze of the teen (and pre-teen) generation with parents and teachers alike, calling for [...]

What do we do about cellphones in a school context? Do we ban it or embrace it as an educational tool? The tendency in our country (and pretty much world wide) is to ban the use of cellphones in schools. They complain about the disruptive ringing of phones in their classes, learners using their phones [...]