South Africa Begins Ambitious Tablets In Schools Pilot Project An anonymous reader writes Guateng province — which is home to Johannesburg and Pretoria and is the richest state in sub-Saharan Africa — has just kicked off a pilot project to replace textbooks with tablets in seven government schools. If successful, the project will be extended to all 44 000 schools in the area. Its all been put together in a hurry — the local minister for education announced it in a media interview less than a year ago and details have never been made fully public, but hes hoping it will be an end to Irish Coffee education in which rich white students float to the top. From the article: The classroom of the future being piloted is modelled on the system that’s been in use at Sunward Park High School in Boksburg for the two years. That former “model C” was the first state school in South Africa to go textbook free, and has pioneered the use of tablets in public education here. ... As with Sunward Park, the schools in this new pilot will be using a centralised portal developed by Bramley’s MIB Software for managing tablets and aggregating educational content into a single portal. MIB’s backend pulls in CAPS aligned digital textbooks from the likes of Via Afrika as well as extra resources from around the web. Content from Wikipedia, the BBC, the complete works of Shakespeare and Khan Academy is all cached locally for teachers to reference during lessons and pupils to use for self-directed study and research. Read more of this story at Slashdot. ift.tt/1KG2zi2
Posted on: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 16:30:08 +0000
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