Tweets on education and employment in Africa. Currently https://xitter.cf/t.co/RQVACaeOLu. Board member: Apex, Valenture. Previously Sweepsouth, Itron, iPay. Don’t panic.
Cape Town, SA
Joined May 2010
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Change is coming to a sector that has resisted moving on from Industrial age thinking for 200 years. This model combines technology, real-time data, and teacher support to deliver great resulsts at half the cost.
How does one teacher keep 100 students focused and engaged? For Jayson-Lee, Apex Education’s approach makes it possible.
By delivering lessons through technology and using real-time data, teachers can focus on personalized support – creating classrooms that deliver quality education, match or exceed traditional outcomes, and do it all at half the cost. 📚
Incredible generosity. 🫡
$6.25 billion. 25 million children. $250 each.
Susan and I believe the smartest investment we can make is in children. That’s why we’re so excited to contribute $6.25 billion from our charitable funds to help 25 million children start building a strong financial foundation through Invest America. 💪📈🇺🇸
onedell.com/investamerica/
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100%!! And every now and then amongst all the transformed lives something does break through to policy. Worth doing. Every. Single. Day.
If a big lesson of education research is that niche-community-school-with-motivated-educators-and-aligned-parents is excellent but unlikely to generalize to policy, then the follow-up lesson is that you should do things that are excellent but unlikely to generalize to policy
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Dean Villet retweeted
What an absolutely beautiful, kind and classy tribute to Siya Kolisi by Squidge Rugby. This is not only a tribute to Siya but in some ways, a love letter to the Boks and maybe, just maybe, to us as South Africans too.
Educational data, when used correctly, can dramatically improve learner outcomes. Watch below to learn how Data Driven Districts is helping teachers at Sedibeng Primary School in Thembisa, Johannesburg unlock the most potential out of their learners. msdf.co/3WCLTT9
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Dean Villet retweeted
One of the hardest lessons to learn for a smart kid is that school is easy because it’s catered to the middle of the bell curve, but life is hard because all the rewards are in the long tail.
Crypto owl is a thing
This red-eyed owl looks extremely weird, but is 100% real. It is an albino
[read more: buff.ly/2OArUBl]
[📹 black star Houssem]
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This #Thanksgiving, I #givethanks for the many ways the world has improved.
Child mortality has fallen. Life expectancy has risen. Countries have gotten richer. Women have gotten more education. Basic water source usage has risen. Basic sanitation has risen. Data from @Gapminder
Great work by our @DellFdn partner @Enlabeler in bridging an important gap: South African young adults who need to earn a wage, and companies who need to fill data annotator roles. Learn how: msdf.co/3C6eq9V
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Reading before 4IR bla bla please!!!
A child who can't read will struggle to
📝write
🧮do maths
💻learn coding
🧠build critical thinking skills
📚learn anything else
Governments: endorse the Commitment to Action on Foundational Learning to #EndLearningPoverty.
➡️worldbank.org/en/topic/educa…
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At the UN in New York for the @TransformingEdu Summit. Powerful words from @benlpiper: "There is evidence about what countries should do to make sure that talented children can read and do math. Do you want to know what they are?" [A thread]
Tonight’s nightmare sorted 😱
Rice University engineers repurposed deceased spiders as mechanical grippers [full paper: buff.ly/3zFjcLm]
My dogs killed a 4kg specimen in my yard earlier this year. Wikipedia says they only get to 900grams. Not! At first I thought a raptor had dropped a Duiker on my lawn..
In the world of animal models, naked mole rats are the supermodels. They rarely get cancer, are resistant to some types of pain, and can survive up to 18 minutes without oxygen. But perhaps their greatest feat, a new paper suggests, is that they don't age bit.ly/2niaXPf
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1 million logins and growing. Cloud version of DDD 2.0 busy loading 👏👏👏
In 2013, NLF partnered with @DBE_SA and @DellFdn to launch the Data Driven Districts (DDD) programme. This month we hit one million DDD Dashboard logins, an incredible milestone for our programme!
Read about how officials are using data in education: lnkd.in/da5j8jSn
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Until children can consistently make the transition from learning to read to reading to learn by Grade 4, other interventions will continue to be that much more difficult.. with some notable exceptions but a failing rule
Reading comprehension is a core learning skill that opens new doors to opportunity for children. Read how @funda_wande aims to support learners in #SouthAfrica by training teachers for effective literacy instruction. msdf.co/3yTzlgC
We need more data champions in R-12 education! Read about the recent collaboration between the #DataDrivenDistricts programme and @resepgroup to share the most up-to-date data and insights with education officials. msdf.co/3KNB8Ga