Take your kids to the cinema and you will be surprised at how adept and familiar they are with tools that you are just seeing for the first time. it’s a common sight to see kids teaching their parents how to use tools, devices, and other digital equipment, but when a student shows or teaches [...]
What does being a ‘digitally competent’ teacher mean? Does it mean using laptops, smartphones, or tablets in the classroom? Does it mean finding new and interesting ways to use those devices along with apps and web tools? What level of expertise with technology constitutes ‘competent’? Or does the concept encompass more than that? Just like [...]
Dear “Nervous To Try Something New With EdTech”: Being a little nervous and anxious to start anything just seems normal. It becomes abnormal when you allow your fears to overwhelm you. Teaching and Learning have gone beyond the traditional setting, and you’re not going to do yourself any good if you decide not to go [...]
Just as it’s been done in advanced countries, the Chairman, Board of Governors of Olashore International School, Prince Bimbo Olashore, has unfolded plans to deploy iPads in classrooms. Speaking at the 2015 Apple iPad Summit organised by Core Group Africa in Johannesburg, South Africa, Olashore said that Nigeria cannot also wait for technology transfer any [...]
How about this for a fun video? It's been around but worth putting back out there. It's a Proof that technology is great in education, and the teacher is what makes the technology really great.