Do smart phones make smarter students?
Can an app today keep bad grades away? Long the bane of teachers, smartphones are being re-imagined by educators as a positive presence in the classroom. What’s more, a survey released Thursday shows more than half of Canadians – 56 per cent – agree that the mobile devices are an “invaluable tool” for students, while […]
Striking teachers are full of shit, allowing children to suffer
When I was in high school, there was a massive teachers’ strike in 1990. This was my Standard 8 or Grade 10 year, and we did not have a permanent principal at Uitenhage High School. This was also a time for massive changes in the South African political landscape, with Nelson Mandela being released and […]
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 […]