Eduplay's educational software is produced here in South Africa. The program can be used for learners from preschool up until grade 12. What I really like about Eduplay besides the fact that it is home grown, thus making it more likely to be relevant for our learners than overseas developed programs, is that it is affordable so they are making it accessible to all which is excellent. Having said that, it is only available in English and Afrikaans which are the languages spoken by the minority in South African. Sadly as good a resource that it is, it is very disappointing that it is only available in two languages. I hope that it is on the cards to make this program available in African languages too. As it stands it is a good tool to utilize if you are dealing with English and Afrikaans speaking learners.
Check out the website and let me know what you think?
http://www.eduplay.co.za/site/index_fl.html
Hi there, welcome to my blog. I am a teacher in training. Here you can find educational resources, articles about education and some of the challenges we face as well as funny classroom moments.
Friday, 1 November 2013
Wednesday, 30 October 2013
The power of positive thoughts
Positive thoughts have such power. Think Janine is spot on. Changing how we think about our learners will change how we interact with them. What we think about teaching and being a teacher definitely affects our teaching style and the impact we have as teachers!
Day to day Education : Always make sure that you have positive thoughts a...
Day to day Education : Always make sure that you have positive thoughts a...
Thursday, 24 October 2013
Sunday, 20 October 2013
How to make education relevant
If one had to look at teaching as a recipe what ingredients would one need to make teaching in South Africa relevant to and for South Africa? Currently we look to other nations to see what their end product (education) looks like and them use their ingredients here to try and get the same result. The problem with that is their recipe and our recipe is not the same, so how can we take ingredients from a completely different recipe, use it for our recipe and expect to get the same result?
Yes I am using education as a metaphor. Lets say education all over the world is cake, so generally with cake the main ingredients are the same but the recipe changes slightly are a lot depending on the cake. Let me elaborate. The USA education system is a chocolate cake, the UK education system is vanilla sponge cake and the South African education system is red velvet cake. All three types of cake need flour and eggs and baking powder etc. but each one needs different ingredients to make it the cake it is set out to be. Another factor that affects the end product is how it is made and what is used to make it, for example the USA may have state of the art oven's they use to make their chocolate cakes whereas the UK only have wood fired ovens and in South Africa we have cast iron ovens. This affects the time and process that goes into making the cake.
In other words education all over the world has the same purpose of educating their people but the why's and hows look different in every nation. There are many things that affect the why's and the hows which is different for each nation. The resources and conditions all over the world are also different. Which all points to the fact that we can not use the what we see other countries and using. We can learn from them, take what we see is good BUT then adapt it to make it work here in South Africa to suite our needs and purposes.
Our education system in South Africa must be developed by our people for our people. Because we are called the rainbow nation and are made up of people with so many different needs our education system needs to be flexible and inclusive enough to include ALL. We can not have one way of learning and teaching and testing we need many ways that all achieve the same purpose!
Yes I am using education as a metaphor. Lets say education all over the world is cake, so generally with cake the main ingredients are the same but the recipe changes slightly are a lot depending on the cake. Let me elaborate. The USA education system is a chocolate cake, the UK education system is vanilla sponge cake and the South African education system is red velvet cake. All three types of cake need flour and eggs and baking powder etc. but each one needs different ingredients to make it the cake it is set out to be. Another factor that affects the end product is how it is made and what is used to make it, for example the USA may have state of the art oven's they use to make their chocolate cakes whereas the UK only have wood fired ovens and in South Africa we have cast iron ovens. This affects the time and process that goes into making the cake.
In other words education all over the world has the same purpose of educating their people but the why's and hows look different in every nation. There are many things that affect the why's and the hows which is different for each nation. The resources and conditions all over the world are also different. Which all points to the fact that we can not use the what we see other countries and using. We can learn from them, take what we see is good BUT then adapt it to make it work here in South Africa to suite our needs and purposes.
Our education system in South Africa must be developed by our people for our people. Because we are called the rainbow nation and are made up of people with so many different needs our education system needs to be flexible and inclusive enough to include ALL. We can not have one way of learning and teaching and testing we need many ways that all achieve the same purpose!
Tuesday, 15 October 2013
Monday, 26 August 2013
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