Five educators have been honoured for their pioneering work in the use of technology in education.
The annual Microsoft Innovative Teachers Forum Awards brought together educators from around South Africa who were selected because they are using groundbreaking teaching methods in their classrooms.
The winning projects were judged on the level of innovation used, teaching methods and the impact they have on learners.
The winners were:
All 22 finalists received smartphones, while Mokgehle’s school received an interactive whiteboard and a data projector, and the four other winners each received a laptop. In addition the four winners will participate in the international competition in Thailand in November.
“Its always inspiring to see the levels of home-grown innovations that our educators can create,” said Trudi van Wyk, the national director of curriculum innovation at the department of education.
“They are doing great work to give the future leaders of this country the skills they will need for future employability and to become productive citizens of our knowledge economy and information society.”
The award is a collaboration between the department of education and Microsoft South Africa, and is now in its third year. Other partners include the Teacher, Smart Technologies, leaf, Dell, mindset, SchoolNet, learnthings Africa, NEC and the School Technology Innovation Centre.
Keep watching this space as we will be telling you, step-by-step over the next months, how these teachers put technology to use in their lessons