1. Learning Gains through Play
Overview

2. 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;

3. Not learning to
use technology -
using technology
to learn

4.  Too much hype?  Too many APPS

5.  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

7.  Video from Google Play for Education

8. E-books
Videos
CAPS docs
Maths Games
Reading Games
Singing Games

10.  Video from Lakeside Primary Vryheid

11. Professional
Development
Implementation
Monitoring and
Evaluation

12. 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

14. Janet Thomson janet@schoolnet.org.za
14 July 2014