Saturday 19 September 2015 was freezing with pouring rain in the KZN Midlands, BUT that didn’t prevent teachers in the Learning Gains through Play project from attending their TPD workshop at Thembelihle Primary School in Howick. The workshop for the two modules to be covered, Mind mapping and Gallery Walk, was attended by 16 out of […]
The DG Murray Trust have been very generous in their support of the Learning Gains through Play project being implemented in KZN and the Western Cape. One year into the project it was time for members of the Board of Trustees from DG Murray to visit one of the project schools in order to see […]
The D G Murray Trust has funded SchoolNet South Africa to provide professional development workshops to teachers with the purpose of effectively using the Xbox Kinect and Intel tablets to enhance learning. For the past year, teachers from 5 schools in Howick and 5 schools in Somerset West in the Western Cape have been learning to […]
A Badge Party was organised to help answer some questions from the teachers involved in the course about the technology and gadgets used. Being given the responsibility of an android tablet, and even having attended the initial workshop, there was still some concern about submitting the project’s assignments and ultimately using the gadgets in […]
Module 7 is one of the most significant for the Learning Gains project, emphasising its central theme using play and games as a tool for effective learning. A teacher workshop was organised on September 6th at Thembelihle Primary School to highlight the use of the Xbox Kinect in a primary school classroom. Peter […]