Archive for October, 2011
Spring 2011 edition now online
All articles from the Spring, 2011 edition reproduced online.
The start of an ambitious project: Archiving the Web
Ever wondered how to preserve that Pulitzer prize-worthy e-mail for posterity? The American non-profit Internet Archive is now able to provide libraries and other institutions with the tools to preserve what it calls “the ephemera of the Web” – websites and their various documents, images, videos and links. Internet Archive hosts collections of archived websites for more than 60 different American colleges and universities.
India: Wikipedia’s new frontier
Wikipedia – the controversial online encyclopaedia – plans to colonise India next. It’s set to open its first foreign office in New Delhi in a matter of months, although it’s already the fourth-most visited website among India’s 100 million Internet users.
Cursive writing a thing of the past in Indianna
Elegant penmanship used to be a prized education outcome in the one-roomed schoolhouse. In July 2011, however, Indiana joined a growing list of American states that no longer require schools to teach cursive writing. Mastery of keyboarding skills in junior school is the new mandate.
Tablets only for South Korea
South Korea has announced that pupils in all its state-run schools will use only electronic tablets by 2015.
In Harm’s way – innovative educator shares with SA ICT teachers
I had the privilege and honour of once again travelling to and presenting in South Africa at a national Information Communication Technologies (ICT) SchoolNet conference in July this year. This year’s conference was hosted at the lovely St John’s College in the vibrant city of Johannesburg.
Dikgwebas@OWLA
The Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls, South Africa (OWLA) is a boarding school hosting 372 students enrolled in Grades 7–12.
The sounds poems make
Music and poetry are sister arts – a truism embedded in the word ‘lyric’.
Teach to your strengths
Any job may wear us down over time, and teaching can be especially challenging in this regard. Teachers who experience fatigue, boredom, uncertainty or frustration and who feel overwhelmed at work are at risk.
Roedean (SA)
Imagine a school where pupils develop the multidimensional abilities necessary for the 21st century, such as innovation, critical thinking and problem solving; communication and collaboration; flexibility, initiative and self-direction; social and cross-cultural skills; productivity and accountability; and leadership and responsibility.1
