Gone are the days when the smell of formaldehyde emanated from high school science class rooms; no longer is there a need to make the dissecting of frogs, rats, and other animals a strict requirement to be the top of…
Does a computer room have a place in schools? Let’s use an analogy to answer this question: When Mary and John had their first baby, Lulu, they decided to raise her by the book. Solid food was only introduced when…
One-to-one computing – one computer for every learner in the classroom – is the dream of many teachers. Just imagine what we will be able to do if every learner has a computing device in their hands! But is this feasible? …
A sign telling you that eating, drinking or smoking are not allowed is found in most computer rooms. This rule is there for good reasons. Drinking is discouraged because liquid spills can damage the equipment. Liquid may cause your keyboard…
The more pieces of technology you have in your classroom, the more can go wrong. You may have a computer, data projector, printer, scanner, digital camera and equipment to transform your classroom into an interactive one. Often these items have…
When it comes to technology Murphy’s Law applies: anything that can go wrong will go wrong. Imagine you have spent time preparing a lesson and you planned to use technology to present the material in an interesting way, but when…
In Africa a school with a computer room, holding twenty or thirty computers, is indeed fortunate. Only a small percentage of schools have such facilities. If you are teaching in a school with a computer room and you have the…
Technology is of the greatest value to teachers when it is available in the classroom. Why do schools then have computer rooms (also called computer laboratories or computer suites)? Should we not dismantle them and distribute the technology to classrooms?…
Is it possible that our children – sometimes called digital natives – suffer from an identity crisis?
A laptop is a great entertainment device – over and above employing it for work and personal enrichment, you will be able to use it for recreation. For example, you will be able to use your laptop to: listen to…
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