Parnerships with Virtual Environments to improve quality education….. 2 - 4 July 2012 www.educationweek.co.za Keith Maree
Jul 13, 2015
Parnerships with Virtual Environments
to improve quality education…..
2 - 4 July 2012 www.educationweek.co.za
Keith Maree
2 - 4 July 2012 www.educationweek.co.za
part·ner·ship ( pärt n r-sh p )
A relationship between individuals or groups that is characterized by mutual cooperation and responsibility, as for the achievement of a specified goal
"effective language learningis a partnership between school, teacher and student”
every day we all experience partnerships, with our spouses, with our work colleagues and with technology.
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• Provision of access to education.
• The quality of that education.
• The provision of scarce resources and information that enable that education.
Multi faceted challenges in the delivery of quality
education.
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ICT for transformation Create Access
FET - Remedial Interventions
Massive Capacity Increase
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Right now we need to think of partnerships
where we create alternative environments that support
• the FET colleges and the Universities
• the skills development aspirations of all those not in employment, education & training
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A partnership is also an environment
• we interact with people• with learning objects• with information• with technology
We create that environment, as educators you create those environments
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How do we create – we surround ourselves
• with stimuli• with human achievement• with history• with the things that drive us and make us human and stimulate our minds and our imagination
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Combine technology and human interaction/communication
Organise & present information
Implicitly & inherently social
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Amazing ideas
Imagination
Create Environments
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General access to the internet is not available in Africa ?
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Medium-term target of delivering broadband to 80% of African citizens by 2020. – Minister of Communications Dina Pule
• Millennium Development Goals. • Closing the skills gap within African countries
S.A. Digital TV migrationsubsidised set-top boxes – 20 million more people will have an Internet connection
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Computer Literacy
The Youth & Technology
Mobile Phones
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