Sunday, 21 February 2016

sitting with goosebumps

wow!!!
what an empowering jam packed emotional rollercoaster video that was....
Starting out at first i thought oh well here goes just another boring video and soon i realised i should stop en just take in what i am seeing and what is to come... During this video i came to the realization that there is so much in teaching that we learn or ever could imagine. And not all schools are priveledged like im used to and that student in less priveleged schools also have dreams sometimes bigger than ours ever could be. Dreams that kept them going even if they didn't have food on the tables and the going got tough their dreams never died its what kept them going. dreams to rise above their surcomstances and create a better world for themselves that they found themselves in currently. How priveledges am i to be able to one day have and influence on these young people and to help them persue their dreams to keep on watering their dream so that one day they get to flourish in life and become the people or person they have dreamt their whole life about. Us as teachers should graps these challenges and these dreams of our students and make it our goals to help them excel in every subject we teach to help them to develop into the person they want to become. To prepare them to the best of our abilities and to set them free so that they can pass matric and enter the big wolrd equiped to becom who they want to. Us as teachers should empower and encourage these peoples of ours and buy into their dreams to help us reach our goals so that they can reach their goals. 

"Education is te most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world" - Nelson Mandela 

Let us as teachers change the world one student at a time by educating them to the best of our abilities



Wednesday, 17 February 2016

Technology in the Classroom

Heel eerste dink ek moet ons verklaar en duidelikheid skep oor die definisie van wat digitale pedagogie werklik is. Wanneer ek, ons menslik daaroor dink sal ons seker aflei dat die definisie iets moet lei as volg... Pedagogie is onderrig van leerder deur onderwyser/ dosent met behulp dan van digitale middele soos elektronika en dat tegnologie die hoofbeen van Digitale Pedagogie is. Of te wel 'n meer gekonstruktueerde definisie sal lei  dat digitale pedagogie die gebruik van tegnologie as poging om die ervaring van onderrig te verryk of te verander

Wel volgens Paul Fyfe se "Digital Pedagogy Unplugged" artikel is digitale pedagogie nie noodwendig slegs elektronies nie en speel tegnologie nie werklik sulke groot en alleenlike rol in Digitale Pedagogie nie.

Digitale pedagogie is nie werklik die enigste manier is ons leerders se aandag te kan behou tydens klasse, hulle geinteresserd te hou gedurende lesse of optimum stimulasie in verskeie onderrig gebiede te voorsien nie. Fyfe vertel ons dat daar wel verskeie ander maniere kan wees om bogenoemde verwagtinge te oorkom sonder die hulp van elektroniese aparate of elektronika soos rekenaars en projekters hoofsaaklik. Sonder dat leerders verveelt raak wanneer onderwyser vanaf PowerPoint skyfies aflees of nie aktiewe interaksie met leerders het nie.

In die artikel lees ons van "Teaching Naked" wat nie wel letterlik kaal beteken nie, maar wel net beteken om leerders te onderrig sonder die gebruik van rekenaars of projekters en om eerder meer deel te neem aan klasgesprekke. En dat die digitale deel van "Digital Pedagogie" nie noodwendig digitaal moet wees nie, maar eerder iets wees wat interaktiewe, normale en ontspanne klasgesprekke bevorder en inisieer om sodoende beter onderrig te ontvang en en beter te verstaan en te onthou wat in die klasse aangebied word.

Thursday, 11 February 2016

cheers to the first one

here is to my first blog ever... 
and for many to come...

I dont really know what to say so im just going to blog about my day so far

Started with gym @ 6am 
What a session that was... 😅😅

Train insane or remain the same 💪💪

Then i had class and then i went to take a nap 
Because im not feeling too good today
A bit feverish post nasal drip and a hectic headache

now in class again..