Academics

Karen Walstra

Oct 285 min read

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and SAMR

Exploring the SAMR model and AI, how AI supports teachers and learners at each level of the SAMR model.

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African AI Assessment Collaboration Project

Karen Walstra

Jun 113 min read

African AI Assessment Collaboration Project

African AI Assessment Collaboration project invites teachers, lecturers, etc. to share ideas about how they are using AI for assessment.

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Unplugged Coding in South Africa: A Foundation for the Future

Karen Walstra

Jun 95 min read

Unplugged Coding in South Africa: A Foundation for the Future

Unplugged coding in South Africa. Exploring the benefits of teaching computational thinking to little children

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Karen Walstra

Feb 283 min read

Leap Day, Leap Year - Teaching Ideas.

Are you discussing Leap Year with your learners? Thursday 29th February 2024 is Leap Day, an extra day in calendar.

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Why teach children about being an organ donor?

Karen Walstra

Oct 6, 20236 min read

Why teach children about being an organ donor?

Teach children about organ donation. Relate to UNSDGs 3 & 4 showing it's a real-world problem that is actually easy to solve.

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Karen Walstra

Jun 22, 20232 min read

Perseverance, Teaching and Learning

We should teach perseverance to build learners' self-confidence. Finding the balance of not giving up, while not going to the extreme.

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Karen Walstra

Jun 4, 20233 min read

See schooling differently

The world is changing, is our schooling? Explore ideas - see schooling differently! Join the conversation!

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Karen Walstra

Feb 5, 20233 min read

Help learners to be safe online

Help learenrs to be safe online, but regularly discussing safety tips. Here are a few ideas to use in your lessons.

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Karen Walstra

Jan 23, 20233 min read

Computational Thinking as a Methodology

Computational Thinking as a Methodology, get your learners to be problem-solvers.

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Ethics and AI in Education - how do we address this?

Karen Walstra

Aug 28, 20224 min read

Ethics and AI in Education - how do we address this?

AI inventions keep developing. How do we as educators address this complex issue? Eg. LaMDA2 with Google Let's explore proactively.

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Karen Walstra

Jun 5, 20225 min read

School Environment and Technology

Create a learning environment, in your school garden often the first impression of visitors see. A resource we don’t use enough.

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Karen Walstra

May 22, 20224 min read

Augmented Reality (AR) in your lessons

Using Augmented Reality (AR) in lessons to build context, content knowledge and have fun.

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AI (Artificial Intelligence) in lessons.

Karen Walstra

Jan 25, 20224 min read

AI (Artificial Intelligence) in lessons.

Using AI (artifical intelligence) in lessons, expose learners to a range of tools, discuss ethics and responsibility.

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Think About The Pedagogy When Integrating 4IR Technology

Karen Walstra

Jan 9, 20224 min read

Think About The Pedagogy When Integrating 4IR Technology

Think about pedagogy when integrating 4IR tech. How can immersive technology support teaching & learning? Why integrate tech with pedagogy?

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Africa Tech Radio - The Classroom Series

Karen Walstra

Dec 20, 20211 min read

Africa Tech Radio - The Classroom Series

Africa Tech Radio, asked Karen Walstra to participate in a 4-part "The Classroom Series", discussing technology for online education.

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Chat about Resolute Education - robotics and coding

Karen Walstra

Sep 16, 20211 min read

Chat about Resolute Education - robotics and coding

Karen Walstra (EvolveSchool) chatted to Rajesh Ramakrishnan, founder and CEO of Resolute Education.

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Examples Of Being Truly Responsible Citizens

Karen Walstra

Jul 17, 20215 min read

Examples Of Being Truly Responsible Citizens

Inspire learners to be responsible citizens. Thousands of people in communities are assisting with clean up after protests and looting.

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Citizenship & Connectedness & other 4Cs in your classroom

Karen Walstra

May 4, 20213 min read

Citizenship & Connectedness & other 4Cs in your classroom

Citizenship & Connectedness & other 4Cs-Creativity, Collaboration, Communication, Critical thinking - in your classroom.

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Karen Walstra

Apr 20, 20212 min read

Earth Day 2021 - Restore Our Earth

Earth Day 22 April get involved, as a family, school, community. Do projects to assist in sustaining our Earth

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Charlotte Maxeke - role model to all South Africans

Karen Walstra

Apr 7, 20216 min read

Charlotte Maxeke - role model to all South Africans

Charlotte Maxeke, a woman in a man’s world, blazing a trail of a South African female leader (1871-1939)

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