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School Assessment - whole school planning
Create valid, reliable and credible assessments for each subject taught throughout the academic year

Karen Walstra
Oct 24, 20134 min read
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Programming / Coding - what many schools are not teaching but should
Programming / Coding - what many schools are not teaching but should

Karen Walstra
Oct 23, 20134 min read
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Augmented Reality (AR) for Learning & Teaching
Augmented Reality for Learning & Teaching. Teaching ideas for teachers to get AR into their lessons

Karen Walstra
Oct 16, 20134 min read
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Quick Tasks To Encourage Problem Solving
Keeping creativity, curiosity and interest alive in every child, should be an area each teacher is aware of. Our teaching styles and...

Karen Walstra
Aug 25, 20132 min read
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Quick Problem-Solving Tasks Answers
Here the the answers problems of the blog entitled: Quick Tasks to Encourage Problem Solving Match problem answer: Coin problem solution...

Karen Walstra
Aug 25, 20131 min read
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Using QR Codes at School
​Using QR Codes at School - QR stands for Quick Response, as you get the information quickly from the QR code and onto your mobile device; t

Karen Walstra
Aug 14, 20133 min read
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Re-Imagine Education
Re-Imagine Education in South Africa was a talk I gave at TEDx Braamfontein, 2012 June 13 at DoubleShot in Braamfontein!

Karen Walstra
Jul 23, 20134 min read
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Outreach Programmes - Five Considerations
Outreach programmes five ideas to consider: Attitude, Funding, Sustainability, Partnership, Relevance

Karen Walstra
Jul 17, 20133 min read
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Why include MOVEMENT in every lesson!
Movement and Learning Our bodies are built to move, yet often our teaching strategies still insist on children sitting for long periods...

Karen Walstra
Jul 16, 20137 min read
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Technology & Technologies & Software
Integrating technologies - using technologies (hard and software) to make learning meaningful. We had a wonderful hands-on workshop at...

Karen Walstra
Jun 19, 20132 min read
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Girls and Boys Draw Differently
Have you watched the children on the playground or in the classroom? Girls and boys play differently. They fight differently. They...

Karen Walstra
Jun 11, 20133 min read
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Using MOOCS in eEducation (Sound Idea Interview 3) April 2013
Online Education in SA Part 3: The Practical Application of Learning Technologies Link to YOuTube Video: https://youtu.be/vAZcy4oFbfs...
Sound Idea and K Walstra
May 23, 20131 min read
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Teacher training in technology (Sound Idea Interview 2) April 2013
Karen's interview in April 2013, by Carla Van Straten from Sound Idea Digital, is about Online Education placing focus on the South...
Sound Idea K Walstra
May 23, 20131 min read
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E-books in the South African learning space (Sound Idea Interview 1) April 2013
Karen's interview in April 2013, by Carla Van Straten from Sound Idea Digital, is about Online Education placing focus on the South Afri
Sound Idea & K Walstra
May 23, 20131 min read
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Would educational technologies assist in solving educational problems in South Africa? (Sound Idea I
Karen Walstra interviewed by Carla Van Straten Sound Idea Digital about Online Education, focusing on South African context.

Karen Walstra
May 22, 20131 min read
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Virtual Tours as a Teaching Tool!
Virtual Tours as a teaching tool! Take your learners on a journey!

Karen Walstra
Mar 20, 20132 min read
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Critical Thinking - making it work in your classroom
Incorporate practical critical thinking questioning ideas into your teaching and learning practices, Bloom's taxonomy and other taxonomies.

Karen Walstra
Feb 26, 20135 min read
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Teacher Outreach Programme
Saturday morning was the first Saturday this year for Thandulwazi Rokunda Teacher and Leader Development Programme. Much preparation and...

Karen Walstra
Feb 15, 20132 min read
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Grade R Stimulating Indoor and Outdoor Playing Environments
Grade R Stimulating Indoor and Outdoor Playing Environments. Playing is an essential part of growing up

Karen Walstra
Feb 7, 20133 min read
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An Inviting Learning Space - The Classroom
Organizing and changing the classroom to suit what is being taught, in a fun and interesting manner, helps one feel comfortable and prepared

Karen Walstra
Feb 4, 20134 min read
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