Teacher digital fluency is key to solving the literacy crisis in SA

When people picture EdTech working, they tend to picture a child holding a tablet. A learner-facing app, glowing screen, instant feedback. It’s a compelling image, and it’s also the wrong starting point, writes Nonku Nyathi, partnerships and ecosystem head...

What children need to know about AI-generated content

Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming an increasingly familiar part of children’s learning routine. Kaspersky explains how parents can help children use AI responsibly and highlights why children should verify AI-generated answers, recognise neural network...

Screen or paper? The most effective prelim exam prep may need both

The debate over how students learn best has followed us from the days of book-based classroom learning into the digital age, causing ongoing debate between whether it’s more effective to read notes on a screen or to print them out. Do students absorb more from digital...

SA universities don’t need more data – they need to act on it

South African universities collect vast amounts of information about student performance, attendance, engagement and progression. Yet too often, that information tells institutions what has already happened rather than helping them influence what happens next. The...

How AI could make governments more responsive

For most of the past decade, digital government has meant digitising what already existed: moving paper forms online, replacing queues with portals, converting manual registers into databases. While useful, this largely automated processes instead of changing them in...

When patients move, their healthcare data should move with them

A patient in an underserved community may begin their care at a local clinic, be referred to a district hospital, have tests processed elsewhere, and later need specialist treatment or follow-up in another province. By Henry Adams, country manager at InterSystems...