The Education Show
Unlocking opportunities in teaching and learning through collaboration
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Thursday Sep 17, 2020
Thursday Sep 17, 2020
About Amy:
I am an educational technologist focusing on ways to make learning experiences more engaging, effective, and enjoyable. My training spans many disciplines, with undergraduate degrees in Computer Science and Spanish, and a Ph.D. in Human-Computer Interaction supported by a fellowship from the Institute of Education Sciences (IES). I have been named a Rising Star in EECS by MIT, a World Economic Forum Young Scientist, received the McCandless Chair and the Thomas and Lydia Moran Professorship in Learning Science, and been awarded the Jacobs Early Career Fellowship to study the use of educational technologies in emerging economies. I have been a visiting researcher at USC’s Institute for Creative Technologies and the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, and have conducted field research on the deployment of educational technology across many international sites. My research is supported by the National Science Foundation, Google, the McDonnell Foundation, and the Jacobs Foundation.
https://www.amyogan.com/home
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Thursday Sep 17, 2020
Thursday Sep 17, 2020
On this episode I chat with Shekinah about her early life and what led her to becoming a coach and facilitator with Naledi shine. She is a wonderful speaker and incredibly passionate about the benefits of the Naledi Shine programs
Wednesday Sep 09, 2020
Wednesday Sep 09, 2020
On this episode we chat with Charles about the importance of emotional intelligence and the projects run by Naledi Shine
Emotional intelligence is a significant differentiator and contributes to organisational and individual strength.
The level of self-worth evident in a school or business directly correlates to the value that it creates: the turnover, the share price, and the academic results are interwoven with worth. Solid performance has a direct relationship with inner strength. For South Africa’s economy and its quality of life index to improve substantially and sustainably, its people and organisations, must interrogate and strengthen their values. The time for building an emotionally intelligent set of habits that are aligned with core values – is now.
Building hope and creating purpose – Deliver is an NPO committed to facilitating change, so that South Africa’s human potential more predictably translates into high performance. We take people as they are and help them become what they ought to be. We believe that growth is an inside out and bottom up process which is why our work starts with young people in schools which are the foundation of economic growth.
https://zibuza.net
http://naledishine.org/
Monday Aug 31, 2020
Monday Aug 31, 2020
On this episode we chat with Kate about emotional wellbeing for educators.
Through my own journey of not being very good with feelings, not having very well-developed emotional wellness skills to manage my feelings and regulate my nervous system. I took the long and sometimes deeply difficult way to find harmony in my life. To find more space and ease it took growing my ability to be present to what I am feeling, developing the essential skills for connection and navigating the tough, painful and beautiful parts of my life. For I have realised when I try not to feel my pain, I limit my willingness to feel joy too.
It has been a challenging road to walk, sometimes it felt more like a very slow belly crawl through a swamp, and my life is infinitely better from this journey and growth. My life is now filled with more connection, kindness, compassion, love and joy. I have grown my resilience muscle, my capacity to sit in uncomfortable places and communicate clearly. It has made all the difference. These are the skills I believe the world desperately needs in these times and I am committed to being part of the change.
Kate Rowe
https://emotionalwellness.co.za/
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Monday Aug 24, 2020
Monday Aug 24, 2020
Mokhudu Machaba is a teacher with more than 15 years of experience. She has taught from grade r-12 in her teaching career. Her focus has been on Maths, languages and Life Skills; Geography, History, English First Additional Language, Natural Sciences and Technology. From 2009 she also started ICT in the classroom after a training by the Coza Cares foundation.
She is a Microsoft Certified Educator since 2015, and got recognition for being Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert from 2014-upto date. She has trained more than 600 people across the country on computer literacy at School Net Conferences, E-schools Network and Microsoft gatherings as well as the EdTech Teams seminars. She was awarded the ISPA Super Teacher Champ in 2016 and her school was awarded special Ministerial award for introducing e-learning at a quintile 2 rural school. She has also got nominations globally for GESS Awards for Innovation in Education
Mokhudu is passionate about ICT and this has brought development to her school and the people around her.
Saturday Aug 22, 2020
Saturday Aug 22, 2020
On this episode we chat with the powerhouse that is Wendy Horn.
Wendy is passionate about Science and technology, and especially about empowering girls to become leaders in these fields. Seeing the struggle of both learners and educators in understanding and applying Science concepts galvanized her to reach out to more than learners but also to other educators. Now as well as teaching students, she talks to educators about science, how to teach it, how to engage earners, how to use technology, and how to make it hands-on, practical and relevant. So to achieve good results at the end of Grade 12, she recommends they focus on instilling a love and natural curiosity for science amongst the learners from Grade 8.
Her approach to learning is rigorous and practical, with demonstrations to ensure that abstract ideas are made visible and more accessible to the visual and kinesthetic learner, and videos and quirky science songs to engage the auditory learner. Her classroom is a challenging place – she wants to create problem solvers and doesn’t believe in “can’t do it”. She has embraced two “game-changing” strategies: an e-learning strategy in teaching and learning and increasing the number of learners that obtain quality results in Mathematics and Physical Sciences on exiting school. Wendy sees the need to develop critical and analytical thinkers with good problem solving skills in the next generation, so they can collaborate across different cultural groupings in a world that’s shrinking with the use of social media platforms and the internet.
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Saturday Aug 22, 2020
Saturday Aug 22, 2020
On this first episode we chat to Phuti about her incredible passion and commitment to teaching.
Phuti grew up in difficult circumstances, but her parents saw leadership and teaching talents within her and encouraged her to try to become a teacher. She is now a teacher and Principal of her school, always keeping the idea of ‘service beyond self’ strongly in mind. Working in a semi-rural area, most of her learners are orphans, or from families where parents are poor or ill. Instead of turning children away if their parents are unable to pay for classes, she has managed to empower parents by employing them in the running of the school, giving their children opportunities they would not have otherwise had. The parents therefore also become invested in the school, and attendance is high.
Although her own education was very traditional (essentially using just blackboard and chalk), Phuti has undertaken a number of initiatives to widen the education available to her students. She has launched, with colleagues, a permaculture garden to grow vegetables and herbs for the benefit of the poor in the community. This helps students acquire the desire to become scientists, farmers and pharmacists when they see the application of what is grown in the garden. Phuti is also a Microsoft Innovative Expert Educator, pioneering the integration of technology in the classroom, and has received many awards from the government and other organisations in recognition of her achievements. With the prize funds, she would improve the facilities of her school, adding a sanitation block, library building, and more computers in the short term.
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