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Oh, That’s Right!
In South African educational parlance, teachers don’t teach “students,” they teach “learners.” I like that. If the goal is lifelong learning, then we should start calling ourselves that as early as...
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The One About the Baboon
As Ian was leaving the van he said, “I wonder how smart the baboons actually are.” I was sitting securely belted in the van. Sharon, in the row behind me wanted out which would necessitate me also...
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Standing Long Jump
Part of the planning phase of our trip out here included the idea of facilitating a leap frogging of development of ICT skills and integration within Captonian classrooms. “Mistakes were made,” to...
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18 July 09 Nelson Mandela is 91. Prior to arriving in Africa, I’ll admit, Mandela was really one of the few national icons with whom I was familiar. Even that knowledge wasn’t appreciably deep. Having...
View ArticleThe Death of Ritual
20 July 09 Today was a down day during which we debriefed the previous two weeks with Edunova and then had time to ourselves to decompress. Decompression and stray thoughts lead to what’s below....
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Would you marry the Internet again?
When I’m playing “What if?” and I come up with this scenario, I imagine someone tripping over a chord and the entire country making that cartoony power-down sound. As you’ve likely heard, the...
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Teachers aren’t the worst audience
Khanyiso, Mlungisi and I were in charge of leading the session on multimedia in the classroom Wednesday. It was the afternoon and the usual grumblings about too much theory and not enough practice had...
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Let ’em admire the shiny
Due to illness, we’re down a team member today. Our partner NGO, Edunova, is also down a team member. Both of the missing team members were responsible for the same session today. As such, a little...
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Meeting the man at the top
I wasn’t quite certain what to expect when meeting the principal of Wavecrest Primary School Wednesday. I’ll be working with the faculty at Wavecrest next week to help their teachers who attended our...
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The best part of today
Day 3 at Wavecrest Primary saw an hour of play time for the grade 7 teachers, the vice principal and the school’s lab assistant. The way Benji and I have been handling things is sitting the laptop on...
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