This is a presentation given at the 2015 SchoolNet Conference

1. The role of the 21st century
mentality in school leadership
Lindiwe Mthethwa

2. Socio economic status and
demands of technology
 Technology is changing the way we
live, communicate and learn.
 The exponential rate at which the
information is generated, developed,
cascaded and adopted instructs
everyone to create innovative
methods as early as at the primary
school level.

3. Motivation
 South African education has recently
been classified as the country with
teacher shortages and those presently
employed educators are said not to be
of good quality.
 Poor reading and mathematical
foundations has become the norm of
today’s South African public schools.
The ball rolls back to the role of the
21st century mentality in school
leadership.

4. School Net community
 Using the http://e-classroom.co.za and
Microsoft Maths has aided more to
motivate educators at the primary
school with the ready-made e-
resources which are printable and
technologically friendly. Educators
cannot fail to equip their learners for
Annual National Assessments
because there are revision tasks that
are preloaded in the site.

5. E-classroom resource
example

6. 6
SA School
Net
increased availability
of high quality,
relevant, need-targeted
maths, science &
technology
E-classroom
resources
Resources from grade
R to grade 6 with all
the learning areas.
Microsoft
Maths
focus on ICT
infrastructure and
access technology-
enabled tools and cost
efficient resources
Blended
learning
environment
in reality institutions now
offer a blended to enhance
effectiveness and ICT-
supported learning
experiences
The role of 21st
century
mentality in
school
leadership

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mentality in school leadership
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8. Thank you
 “The issue of the digital divide is,
furthermore, a political battlefield” Van
Dijk and Hacker (2003: 321).