The endless possibilities of eLearning
This week we launched our Education ePortal that has the potential to revolutionise teaching and learning.
Our launch happened in the same week the South African Democratic Teachers’ Union (SADTU) told Education Minister Angie Motshekga they would not administer the Annual National Assessments to learners this week.
As a result, the literacy and numeracy tests, which more than 8 million pupils were due to start tomorrow, have been postponed till February next year, disrupting the school timetable to suit SADTU’s agenda. This prompted Justice Malala, the well-known television host and columnist, to tweet “SADTU is the worst thing to ever happen to a black child.”
SADTU members may be unconcerned about meeting that set benchmarks, because many of them enrol their own children in former Model C schools, where teachers will do whatever it takes to ensure learners become literate and numerate.
The biggest challenge in education is what we can do about the millions of children “left behind”. The history of our democracy is marked by false starts and dead ends in the myriad attempts to find solutions.