Overall Project Parameters

• Integration of ICT
  The balance between the use of ICT and the evidence of learning.
• Learning
  The focus question help the learner achieve the targeted learning outcomes.
• Implementation
  The project plan gives a clear outline of how the total project can be implemented.
• Assessment
  The assessment tools include criteria for the targeted learning outcomes, and they focus sufficiently on learning.
  
  
  
  

Assessment Plan Outline

Assessment is not a once-off and stand-alone activity,it is continous and integrated into all the activities.

• The methods used to gauge learner readiness for the module.
• The product or performance task that will engage the learners and best demonstrate the teacher’s intended learning goals and targeted thinking skills.
• The identification of the quality work and the involvement of learners in understanding the project expectations and criteria.
• The teacher’s approaches in addressing and assessing higher-order thinking.
• The reporting and monitoring methods which the teacher will use to encourage learner self-management and progress during independent and group work, and also identify the monitoring and reporting tools needed to create.
• The monitoring of the learner understanding and the necessary adjustments to be made.
• The methods of assessment to help the learners to reflect on their learning (metacognition) and assist the teacher to check understanding, and assessment tools needed to create.
• The methods to be used by the teacher to assess the final understanding and demonstration of learning, and the identification of the quality.

Mobilization of the South Africans against ICT in schools

(“Someone has lost ICT plot” by Dr. Ken Alston, Mail & Guardian, 28 August to 03 Sept 2009)
I think Dr. Ken Alston is indirectly mobilizing support to sabotage departmental initiatives in order to realize the implementation of e-education in South Africa.
Being haunted and hallucinating about the undisciplined, uncommitted, lazy and unprepared teachers, some sectors of the society are losing the plot. They are arguing that an uncommitted, lazy and unprepared teacher will be what he or she is with or without a laptop and why prioritize laptops for teachers, when South African education system is failing so many children.
These arguments are the center of the mobilization of the South African public by education consultants, against the departmental scheme for teachers to get laptops. It seems there is confusion on the implementation of e-education and laptop scheme for educators by those I think, are against the introduction of ICT’s in our schools. They are saying the department is wasting money because they think the laptops are for free. (GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 8 MAY 2009, TEACHER LAPTOP INITIATIVE POLICY).