Mxit now offers a Life Orientation contact very similar to Dr Maths called Dr LOLS. The contact is added using the telephone number, 
0968016168.
Dr LOLS seems to be more of an information portal than an interactive chat with a contact. Dr LOLS does, however, provide a few days a month for approximately 2 hours where tutors are online.
The interactive chat offers two options:
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admin on March 20th, 2010
This is an open ‘letter’ by a young man called Dan Brown who seems to have struck a cord with some people and touched a nerve in others. The bottom line; debate is healthy, and yes, it leads to people getting educated.
I took this clip into my classroom and my students engaged in some healthy debate. One thing that was evident was that some socially well adjusted students expressed that they felt stupid because they battled to remember facts irrespective of how much studying they did. They could not reproduce facts very well. So are they not (getting) educated? And so we come full circle.
Enjoy the clip.
Tags: Classroom, Education, Inspiration, Schooling
I can only imagine the number of applications there are for Google Wave in an educational setting (if this preview is anything to go by).
Tags: email, Google, Google Wave, Web 2.0
Photographer James Balog shares new image sequences from the Extreme Ice Survey, a network of time-lapse cameras recording glaciers receding at an alarming rate, some of the most vivid evidence yet of climate change.
When you hear the word/s “Defrag” or “Defragment” your hard drive, what do you think of?
Yes, many of us think: “It’s that laborious task that is essential to our HDDs’ well-being (and overall PC performance).”
Yet, most of us never do it.
(Note: If you have Windows Vista or later, Disk Defragmenter is automatically scheduled. At ridiculous times in the morning – when you’re PCs probably off) Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Defragment, Hard Drives, Maintenance, Optimization, Software, Windows
Recently, Microsoft released a public beta of their highly anticipated anti-virus software for Windows.
Source: Wikipedia
Microsoft Security Essentials (codenamed Morro) is free antivirus software created by Microsoft that provides protection againstviruses, spyware, rootkits, and trojans for Windows XP, Vista, and 7.[1] Currently in beta testing, it was available for download to the first 75,000 people in the United States, Israel, People’s Republic of China and Brazil.
Tags: antivirus, microsoft, Microsoft Security Essentials, morro, security, Software, Windows
“The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.” ~ Socrates (470 BC–399 BC)
(NOTE: It goes without saying that pupils should be educated on safe, constructive and mutually respectful use of this medium before it is used in the classroom.)
Our children are leaving us behind. They use technology, some of which they access via their cell phones, which we as adults do not even know exists. How often do we see children deep in concentration, bent over their cell phones, furiously thumbing away on their most prized possession? It intimidates us; so we discourage it and none more so than in the classroom.
As educators we need to step into their world. We need to find ways of harnessing this technology. We need to be less resistant to change. Technology can never be a substitute for good teaching methods. Technology does, however, give educators the opportunity of connecting with pupils on their level too.
One of the easiest, cheapest and most available ways of bringing technology into the classroom is via the cell phone.
Pupils are acutely aware that teachers don’t like cells in class. A simple instruction like, “please all take out your cell phones and turn them on if they are off”, often leads to blank-faced silence and disbelief; and that is if they haven’t been forced to hand their phones in at the office before coming to class.
Personal opinion:- banning cell phones in the classroom (as an educational tool) equates to taking away a child’s pen and paper.
So how can Nimbuzz be useful in the classroom? Read the rest of this entry »
Far from being just a communication device, the cellphone has been turned into a learning hub with maths and literacy available on social networking platform MXit.
The cellphone is also being used to save lives and make an impact in fighting tuberculosis (TB) and HIV/Aids.
Earlier this month MXit launched its instant mobile book to encourage global teenage literacy while being part of a ground-breaking maths initiative in which Grade 9 and 10 pupils taking part in a pilot project exercise have access to 22 500 mathematical problems.
Pupils can download an entire book from the MXit network for R13.50, which is a fraction of the cost of buying literature in traditional bookstores.
Behavioral Economist, Dan Ariely, has long been fascinated with how emotional states, moral codes and peer pressure affect our ability to make rational and often extremely important decisions in our daily lives — across a spectrum of our interests, from economic choices (how should I invest?) to personal (who should I marry?). Read the rest of this entry »
Saul Griffith has a uniquely open approach to problem solving. Whether he’s devising a way to slash the cost of prescription eyeglasses or teaching science through cartoons, Griffith makes things and then shares his ideas with the world. Read the rest of this entry »