The Education Show
Unlocking opportunities in teaching and learning through collaboration
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Wednesday Nov 04, 2020
Wednesday Nov 04, 2020
On this episode I chat with Mangaliso about her journey and her passion for the digital world.
Mangaliso is a Corporate Communications executive with 10 years experience. She completed her Masters Degree in Media Studies at the University of Sussex, United Kingdom. Her passion for the education of children in Africa and digital innovation led to the birth of AfricaKidsCode.
http://africakidscode.com/index.html
https://zibuza.net/
Tuesday Nov 03, 2020
Tuesday Nov 03, 2020
On this episode Quinton and I take a deep dive into cultural diversity and what it means.
Quinton has 22 years of experience in speaking, facilitating, and training within major corporations, universities, and youth organisations across South Africa and abroad. He lives and breathes diversity and relates exceptionally well to people from diverse backgrounds. His personal story is also a shining example of how one can overcome very difficult circumstances.
Quinton is best known for his use of stories, humour, multimedia presentations, and authenticity in his talks. His facilitation style is highly interactive and probing through which he helps diverse audiences make the transition from a subjective worldview and interaction style to having a greater appreciation for the complexity of social interactions in multicultural environments. Quinton leaves a lasting impression on his audiences through connecting, inspiring, and challenging them to unlock the potential of diversity.
https://culturalintelligenceafrica.com/
https://zibuza.net/
Monday Oct 26, 2020
Monday Oct 26, 2020
On this episode I chat with Micheal about the state of education in South Africa and we look at some potential solutions.
Micheal Goodman is a group knowledge manager at Via Afrika, an educational publishing house in South Africa. He has been working in education and in charge of teaching, authoring, teacher education and publishing roles for more than 25 years. He has had the opportunity to explore what language learning means in a variety of contexts and in a number of roles. His key interest in these roles has been language, especially for learners who learn and who are taught in a language that is not their home language. He is passionate about the role technology can play in achieving good education. He believes that when applied effectively, technology can transform educational practice and solve the many problems we face across our continent. He has an honors degree in applied linguistics and a master's degree in English education from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
https://viaafrika.com/
https://zibuza.net/
Wednesday Oct 21, 2020
Wednesday Oct 21, 2020
Qi Learning was founded on April 5, 2018 with a mission to edvolutionize the way that we educate by empowering teachers with the tools to help people learn. Although we are a young company, I have spent a lifetime developing our company’s vision. When I was 17, I received a letter from the mom of a student that I tutored in math. She told me that my tutoring gave her son more confidence and motivation. The experience had completely changed her son’s outlook on school and on life. The letter surprised me because at the time, I was only tutoring for gas money and I didn’t realize just how much teaching can change someone’s life. That insight shaped my future and set me on a path to positively impact the world one person at a time, one class at a time. One candle can light the world when each of us nurtures and spreads the flame.
Qi Learning provides the spark, but teachers set the world on fire.
https://www.qilearning.com/
https://zibuza.net/
Tuesday Sep 29, 2020
Tuesday Sep 29, 2020
On this episode I chat to the firecracker that is Lisa Illingworth about FutureproofSA and Futureproof online.
Lisa Illingworth is a qualified educator with a post-graduate degree in curriculum design. Lisa curated and wrote the FutureProof curriculum which assimilates the global standards of entrepreneurial education into a structure that equips young people to start a business in a blended economy, and teachers and parents support those activities. She is the CEO of FutureProof and a mother of two daughters.
https://futureproofsa.com/
https://futureproofonline.co.za/login/index.php
https://zibuza.net/
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
https://zibuza.net/
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/
https://zibuza.net/
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.