Inkanyezi: South Africa
Here you can see teachers sharing a battery-powered laptop and working with their own state of the art, hand-held computers. They have developed, across a cluster of local schools, a literacy programme based around environmental issues. The teachers are sharing PowerPoint presentations, spreadsheets on animal classification and illustrated poems produced by their pupils in literacy and science classes.
One of these teachers said to us in an interview:
'I have grown up as a teacher. It has enhanced and developed my way of thinking. I'm exploring Inkanyezi a lot. Each time I learn more'.
A school principal said:
'We are working to develop our school. Everyone wants to know more. It has raised my standards and my dignity. Our school enrolment has increased.'
These new forms of information and communications technology have clearly had a significant impact on these teachers. New forms of co-operation and new forms of learning are taking place - in ways that would have been impossible without the technology.
