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Tim is an entrepreneur, software developer, and speaker who’s based in Cape Town, South Africa.
Tim created staffroom - the unified school management system, and is the Lead Developer at Umoya Software.
A UCT graduate, Tim specialised in Computer Science and Psychology, and has a particular interest in building systems which are intuitive and easy to use. He is passionate about the intersection of technology and education and has spoken about this at various conferences and schools across the country.
He is the founder of EdTechConf - a grassroots conference to bring passionate ICT educators together.
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After price?
Peter Pachal reviews the new Samsung Tablet: Samsung’s latest toy has a lot to brag about. But when you’re talking tablets, you simply can’t ignore the iOS elephant in the room. Any tablet up for sale doesn’t just have to … Continue reading
Laptop success story
Alan Schwartz, writing for NYT: “This is not about the technology,” Mark Edwards, superintendent of Mooresville Graded School District, would tell the visitors later over lunch. “It’s not about the box. It’s about changing the culture of instruction — preparing … Continue reading
21st Century Learning mashup
If you watch just one video today, watch this mashup by Royan Lee. It features several TED presentations on, and around, the topic of 21st Century Learning.
Hand crank OLPC
The Verge on the OLPC XO 3.0 tablet at CES: That power jack will accept the tablet’s regular AC adapter, but also other sorts of power sources, including a hand crank. Love the idea of a tablet hand crank.
The Culling
Prof. Jonathan Jansen writes: There is a nasty micropolitics of schooling at play here. It is common knowledge that schools, under tremendous political pressure to improve their pass rates, do two things. They hold pupils back in earlier grades, especially … Continue reading
The $100 OLPC tablet
Gizmodo and The Verge are reporting that the OLPC XO 3.0 tablet will be shown off at CES next week. What’s more, it is expected to go into production very shortly and apparently reach the market at a cost of … Continue reading
KidsRuby is Ruby programming, for kids
And it looks great. A lot like Hackety Hack. If you have a kid who’s even slightly interested in computer programming – let them play with this.
Sinking deeper
Professor Jonathan Jansen, Vice Chancellor of UFS writes: With the society that sets the bar for performance so low, I have serious problems. Slowly, slowly we are digging our collective graves as we fall into a sinkhole of mediocrity from which … Continue reading
Department of Basic Education distributes open-licensed textbooks
Arthur Attwell writes: The Department of Basic Education has printed open-licensed science and maths textbooks for every grade 10 learner in the country, and will follow up with grades 11 and 12 soon. I’ve heard estimates that this is around two … Continue reading
Can Higher Learning be made habit forming?
Anthony Koser for Forbes: Just making the coursework available for free, of course, doesn’t make people use it, no matter how good it is. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve started the Stanford iOS course.
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