Mail & Guardian’s The Teacher has featured me twice to date. The freelance journalist contacted me in July while I was in Durban and emailed me a long list of questions. Initially, I was very upset because it felt like doing homework. After some consideration and talking to the Editor, I decided to complete the…
My friend Nisha Varghese is a self-employed blogger and philanthropist. She suffers from Cerebral Palsy (CP) – an umbrella term encompassing a group of non-progressive, non-contagious motor conditions that cause physical disability in human development, chiefly in the various areas of body movement. As a result of having cerebral palsy she is unable to walk and her right arm has…
French President François Hollande pledged to ditch homework on Tuesday as part of wide-ranging reforms aimed at improving standards for over-worked French school children, especially those in disadvantaged areas. No more homework is a phrase that every school child worldwide wants to hear. French President François Hollande potentially won the hearts of millions of future…
Eben Moglen discussing the freedom box on CBS news. This small device provides a form of point-to-point secure encryption of your communications. You can support or track the progress via the Freedom Box Foundation after watching this news clip from CBS News below: This is an important project for people who support user privacy. In…
This video on The Future of Learning features three heroes of education: Seth Godin, Prof Sugata Mitra and Daphne Koller, among other schooling and education experts. After watching this video, there is hope for your children, for South Africa and for parents who are tired of delegating the learning to forced compulsory schools run by…