Mar 05 2009

Is our future left behind in South Africa?

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In my ongoing persuit of getting teachers to embrace 21st Century social media tools in their classrooms in South Africa, I have mostly had to deal with severe resistance and antagonism. The best case scenarios have been amused interest, avoidance and lurking participation. The use of social media tools within school walls has mostly been [...]

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Oct 22 2008

Teacher evangelism

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I think all teachers can relate to this dramatic presentation! I have decided to use it as a ice-breaker for my next teachers’ training workshop. There are quite a few “teaching styles” that can be explored as “how to-not to do it”…. What I enjoy most about this presentation is the passion- which is the [...]

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Jul 01 2008

Boniswa’s first flight with a computer

I am still at the conference in PE and had one of those WOW moments this morning at one of the presentations. It was also one of those really humbling experiences. Yesterday one of the teachers from rural KZN came to my collegue, and told her that she was doing a presentation on “How I teach”. [...]

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