Learning Gains through Play

Overview

Provincial SchoolNets 1990s

SNSA established in 1997 - by the DoE;

Funding from IDRC;

Telkom – 6000 teachers online;

Intel Teach, Microsoft Partners in Learning, Vodacom, Oracle, Nokia, Commonwealth of

Learning, Multichoice, SITA, Google, CSIR, and DoBE;

Not learning to use technology -using technology to learn

Too much hype? Too many APPS

Improve learning and literacies

Promote play and a spirit of enquiry in learners

Give teachers new tools and new zest

Explore how cognitive development relates to motor coordination

Video from Google Play for Education

E-books

Videos

CAPS docs

Maths Games

Reading Games

Singing Games

Video from Lakeside Primary Vryheid

ProfessionalDevelopment

Implementation

Monitoring and Evaluation

Thanks to the D G Murray Trust

Microsoft for donating the Xboxes

Intel for assisting to source learner tablets

CSIR – for authorising use of materials

Janet Thomson janet@schoolnet.org.za

14 July 2014