Using Skype for Teaching in Virtual Classrooms
The classroom has continuously experienced advances in the fields of computers and technology for decades. These technological advancements have even reached the education field, with numerous virtual classrooms emerging left and right. You no longer need to be physically present at the classroom in order to learn anything and everything under the sun. You can […]
STAR SCHOOLS – Mobilising Education in South Africa
Johannesburg, 27 October 2010 – We could be entering an age where South African learners will not require a laptop or access to a computer laboratory – yet they will still enjoy inexpensive and rapid access to the internet and educational content. At a stroke, the dynamic combination of mobile technology and inspired thinking provided […]
IT Skills Shortage Is Proving Costly
Gauteng Online is a failure doomed from the beginning
What where they thinking when the Gauteng department of Education promised to connect all the schools in Gauteng to the Internet within 5 years? This is a rhetorical questions about the stupidity of infrastructure projects of this nature. The government themselves are the most inefficient users of technology and with this project they were meant […]