Educators using Intelligent Practice the classroom
Intelligent Practice is Siyavula’s premium homework practice service. It was implemented in 2012 and is now been used by over 60 South African schools. Community involvement is one of the three pillars on which Siyavula stands, and so we welcome educators to be apart of the development process for Intelligent Practice. Siyavula has begun hosting termly Intelligent Practice community events in Cape Town, Johannesburg and the Eastern Cape (we’ll be heading to Durban soon). At these events, we ask educators using the service in their...
read moreNatural Sciences Gr 7-9 Brainstorming Workshop
This last weekend’s brainstorming workshop certainly kick started the process to produce workbooks for Natural Sciences! Following the production, and success, of the Gr 4-6 workbooks last year (you can read about that here and download the books here), we at Siyavula embarked on the next phase with the Sasol Inzalo Foundation to continue our collaboration and work to produce workbooks for Gr 7-9. As we are a fairly new organization and also approaching the production of openly licensed textbooks in an innovative, pioneering way, we need to...
read moreThe year in review – highlights for Siyavula in 2012
This last year has been a busy and exciting time for our small team, which has grown to 16 people who are dedicated to, and passionate about changing education in South Africa. We are proud of what has been achieved in such a short space of time, and we wanted to share with you just some of our achievements for 2012. 2011-2012 – Siyavula ran numerous workshops with educators, exposing them to the world of OER and Creative Commons (+200 educators have attended these events). January 2012 – Siyavula (mentioned as the Shuttleworth...
read moreCommunity Corner – an update on the Siyavula Community
The Siyavula Community is for people who want to make a difference to South African education through volunteering their time, skills and expertise to our open educational resources. In 2012 we worked with more than 200 volunteers, producing content, proofreading and translating our textbooks! 2013 is going to be another exciting year here at Siyavula, and our volunteer activities are set to get underway soon. We really value the help that we have received from our volunteer community over the last few years, and it is because of people like...
read moreThe free Intelligent Practice trial for your class
Siyavula is revolutionizing Digital Education in 2013 and you are invited The Intelligent Practice service is available for Maths and Science Grade 10, 11 and 12. Why do you need Intelligent Practice in your classroom? The Intelligent Practice system has many benefits for both learners and educators. The system provides endless homework questions, marks learners work and provides the educator with real insight into what is happening in their classroom. For a detailed explanation of how Intelligent Practice works, please see click here:...
read moreWorkbooks available for download
You can download all the PDFs of the workbooks and Teachers’ Guides in English and Afrikaans at www.thunderboltkids.co.za To read a comprehensive blog post about the creation of these Natural Sciences and Technology workbooks in 2012, please visit our Siyavula blog...
read moreCreation of Natural Sciences and Technology Workbooks
Siyavula is probably most well know for our openly-licensed Everything Science and Everything Maths titles. But, at Siyavula, we like to extend our boundaries, and what better way to extend ourselves than to reach into primary school! There is much focus on the later grades in high school where learners are grappling with science and maths concepts. But, many of the misconceptions and problems that are evident at this level, often have their roots in the primary school phase. To attempt to improve the STEM subjects in South Africa, we actually...
read moreUpdate on the workbooks project
After months of hard work we have completed our set of openly licensed books: ‘Grade 4-6 Natural Sciences and Technology with the Thunderbolt Kids’, according to the latest CAPS statement released in September for the 2013 school year. They are structured as a combined textbook and workbook with a graphical storybook companion. The textbook-workbook comes in two volumes per grade, part A for term 1 & 2 and part B for term 3 & 4 and they have supporting teachers guides and Afrikaans versions too. The books have been...
read moreUpdate on the workbooks project
After months of hard work we have completed our set of openly licensed books: ‘Grade 4-6 Natural Sciences and Technology with the Thunderbolt Kids’, according to the latest CAPS statement released in September for the 2013 school year. They are structured as a combined textbook and workbook with a graphical storybook companion. The textbook-workbook comes in two volumes per grade, part A for term 1 & 2 and part B for term 3 & 4 and they have supporting teachers guides and Afrikaans versions too. The books have been...
read moreEverything Maths and Everything Science available on Mxit
Siyavula textbooks already available on a variety of devices Siyavula continuously strives to make their Everything Maths and Everything Science textbooks accessible to learners in a variety of contexts. Whether a teaching environment has the privilege of using laptops or tablets in class, or learners simply share hardcopy textbooks and have a few cell phones, the Siyavula textbooks are available in a format that is relevant to you and that will transform your learning and teaching experience. We have previously done a demonstration of how the...
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