Ask this question to different people and you will get different responses: Vendors of tablets may point to some schools where ebooks are already in use and argue that they are a reality in many schools and that other schools are catching on at…
A guest post by Ian Anderson of SENT The Schools eNetwork Trust (SENT) is a non-profit organisation, which was established in 2011 to provide free internet access and other services to schools. The pilot project has started in the Western…
I was both surprized and amused when I received an email from someone in the USA informing me that e4Africa was nominated for the Most Fascinating Blog 2011 awards in the category Teaching Blog. The decision of the panel who…
The White Paper on e-Education, published by the former Department of Education in 2004, states the following: Every South African learner in the general and further education and training bands will be ICT capable (that is, use ICTs confidently and creatively to…
Teachers, do you know that that technology is the best painkiller for admin work? Admin is certainly the least glamorous part of teaching but technology – particularly a computer – can take the sting out of it. Consider just a…
In an web article Are children becoming ‘digitally illiterate’? author Alex Hudson laments the fact that learners in the UK can’t write computer programs! He said: As computers become ever more complicated, there are concerns that schools and universities are…
During a recent round table discussion on ICT support for teaching and learning, the Minister of Basic Education, Angie Motshekga, said that an urgent need exists to further explore information and communication technologies (ICTs) to support administration, teaching and learning…
Technology is brought to schools at great cost. Some question whether one should even consider doing this, particularly in view of the many other needs of schools. Ponder the following statements before you conclude that ICT should not be a high priority…
It has been reported that provincial education departments are to be stripped of their responsibility to procure textbooks for their schools. The Basic Education Minister of Education, Angie Motshekga, said: “We will appoint a national agency to manage the central…
Copyright © 2023
