WASPA trains teachers in online safety

The Wireless Application Service Providers’ Association of SA (WASPA) will again be sponsoring digital safety training for educators participating in the ISPA SuperTeacher of the Year Competition. South Africa’s premier IT in education awards are a feature...

Boosting connectivity in underserved communities

Technology can transform the educational experience at an individual student, group or class level, but when the borders of affordability and access get expanded, the benefits obtained get magnified, as schools are empowered to deliver more entrepreneurs, inventors,...

Education is interactive with AR, VR

At some point during a child’s schooling, they will need additional assistance that static workbooks and textbooks alone cannot provide. While computers and tablets have opened more opportunities for students to engage with their subject matter in the last decade,...

Smartick helps with maths homework

Helping your children with their school homework these days is enough to give any parent anxiety. Having to differentiate between mathematics and mathematics literacy and the modern curriculum can be baffling. Smartick, an online afterschool maths program supported by...

Digital Academy targets youth development

The Digital Academy, an alternative learning institution aimed at software development and technology job-seekers, has set the tone for everyone out there talking too much and moving too little. “We are trying to solve real problems in the only way we know how,...

Green light for Unilever green desk

Pupils at two impoverished schools who have had to make do with sharing a desk need no longer compromise their academic outcomes thanks to a partnership between Unilever and The Wildlands Conservation Trust. Skeen Primary School in Alexandra, east of Johannesburg and...