Mr Yali of Intlanganiso Secondary School has taken to using the IAWB in his maths lessons in the classroom. He had just completed a lesson on numbers (natural numbers, integers, irrational numbers, rational numbers) and was introducing the coordinates being plotted on a cartesian plane. We quickly installed freeware such as Graph and Geogebra for him to continue during the next lesson.
The grade eleven had a double period doing sequences and series. Mr Yali called learners to the board to explain their solutions. They were happy to comply. With a little more help the learners will become better instructors. The collaboration between peers while working on the board bodes well for a school who had a 67% pass rate in mathematics.
Off to the science classroom where Ms Dlova with her grade 9 class constructing formulae by using the periodic table. Using the Croc clips software she quickly got an electronic form of the periodic table and merrily explained how to put elements together to get compounds. While discussing different possibilities of how to approach the subject we needed to use the laptop while learners were taking down the examples explained. We quickly found the picture freeze button and went ahead to discuss the use of some applets in her teaching.
This school is using their IAWB technology while their lab is being revamped. This school will go far because of educator such as Xolile and Zodwa.
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