{"id":731,"date":"2016-08-24T08:51:22","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T06:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/?p=731"},"modified":"2016-08-24T08:51:22","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T06:51:22","slug":"can-tech-innovations-save-education-in-s-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/can-tech-innovations-save-education-in-s-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Can tech innovations save education in S.A.?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_734\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-734\" style=\"width: 2048px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-734\" src=\"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/image.png\" alt=\"Education &amp; Innovation \" width=\"2048\" height=\"1536\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-734\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Education &amp; Innovation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to be facilitating a conversation today (Wed 24 August) at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leaderex.com\/event.aspx?s=64&amp;ei=1237\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LeaderEx about education and innovation<\/a>. Will be asking questions about high tech tools and whether they are the solution to South Africa&#8217;s education crisis. Will be chatting to Warren Hero,\u00a0Chief Technology Officer at Microsoft,\u00a0Enoch Thango, Deputy Principal of Sunward Park High &amp;\u00a0Mfanelo Ntsobi,\u00a0Chief Director: School Support, Gauteng Department of Education (our panelists).<\/p>\n<p>Our panel will also discuss the pros and cons of implementing a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23paperlessclassroom\">#paperlessclassroom<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can expect to hear opinions about the following.<br \/>\nWhat does it mean to teach and learn is this digital age?<br \/>\nWhat are some of the threads that will weave themselves into classrooms of the future?<br \/>\nWhy do we want to innovate with education technology?<br \/>\nIs ed tech having the impact on education that we hoped for?<br \/>\nHow do we go about scaling up successful innovations?<\/p>\n<p>Interested? See you at Leaderex Conference at Sandton Convention Centre at 14h30 &#8211; 15h30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to be facilitating a conversation today (Wed 24 August) at LeaderEx about education and innovation. Will be asking questions about high tech tools and whether they are the solution to South Africa&#8217;s education crisis. Will be chatting to Warren Hero,\u00a0Chief Technology Officer at Microsoft,\u00a0Enoch Thango, Deputy Principal of Sunward Park High &amp;\u00a0Mfanelo Ntsobi,\u00a0Chief &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/can-tech-innovations-save-education-in-s-a\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Can tech innovations save education in S.A.?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discover","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}