Monday, 17 February 2014

ICT Barriers in South African school

South African school's is facing some difficulties concerning the invalid use of ICT in order to assist us in our learning. Most of the schools in South Africa begins to use computers at high schools, but not all the learners have access to them and also not at all time they engage themselves in computers.

All this usually happens in rural areas or in some of the township settlement, and it result in such a way that people do not view the context of ICT as a vital part of our lives until they reach tertiary level of education. At tertiary level that is where most people starting to use computers without the background knowledge of them and some suffer in their career choices. That is why you'll find some of the students at tertiary do not know how to switch on/off the computer.

If a student  have to type  assignments it becomes an issue and it only because of the lack basic backgrounds of a computer skills that was suppose to be learn at schools and in some cases in most of the places in SA they are under development in terms of technologies stuffs, more poverty leading to the state where they can't afford to buy technicals things for students use.
                                   
                                                    Primary learners doing computer


Above as you can see they are two pictures showing primary school children's doing computer of which is a good thing for them to start at an earlier stage in order to minimise the ICT barriers in South Africa and the consequences that will leads them to suffer in career choices at a later stage or at tertiary level of their studies. This don't happens in all the schools in south Africa especially in rural settlement                               https://www.google.co.za/search?q=ict+barriers+in+south+african+schools&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=NRIDU5rLB7Gu7Abf7oHoCw&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAQ&biw=1366&bih=663 

Monday, 10 February 2014

My school at Rev sa nkosi, in Mpumalanga province a journey continued

My secondary school where i completed my matric was situated in a rural place, but it was kinda cool because most things that we need of which were associated with academic stuffs were available for us.

My matric subjects were as follows, Siswati, English, Mathematics, Life orientation, Life Science, physical Science, and geography, and i was at Fernie under mpumalanga province. i complited in the year 2012. During my last year we did not used any type of technology in order to assist us in our learning.

Actually we as science learners at that time we did not use any type of technology to assist us in our studies. But then they were those learners who were doing computer as a subject of which they called it CAT. even by the time we do collaboration revision with the other students we did not have a projector, maybe because most of the time when we were using a place like a hall in order to do a once off thing.


That is me on uniform during my matric year, as you can see that was the only device(calculater) we used to assist our learning.
https://maps.google.co.za/maps?q=rev+sa+nkosi+high+school&ie=UTF-8&ei=GG37UpDOFMOnhAfJ2oBA&ved=0CAoQ_AUoAg