#edchat Join Weekly Twitter Chat on Education
A Twitter chat for the South African education community takes place from 20h30 to 21h30 each Monday evening GMT+2. Private school teachers and public schools teachers have an open conversation about children, teaching, learning and technology. To vote for your choice of topic for the coming week, please head over to #edchatsa website and add your […]
SMS' Can Relieve Stressed, Lonely People
BERKELEY — Text messaging often gets a bad rap for contributing to illiteracy and high-risk behaviour such as reckless driving. But a social welfare professor at the University of California, Berkeley, has found an upside to texting, especially for people who feel stressed out, isolated and alone. Text messages in cognitive behaviour therapy can make people feel less isolated Adrian […]
What is NETucation?
NETucation is a campaign to use new ways of education in the Internet age to raise the standards of living in Africa. Our vision is to bring broadband Internet access to over 50% of the African population. According to World Internet Stats, Africa only achieves 13.5% penetration among its 1,037,524,058 people. The rest of the […]
Chip Conley: Measuring what makes life worthwhile
Recently my guest lecturing slot at Stenden SA, the leading hospitality management or hotel school in South Africa, was confirmed. In preparation for a week of lectures I started doing research on my favourite resources, TED.com and found this gem. His reference to Abraham Maslow and the application in business alone is worth watching this […]
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 […]