The purpose of information and communication technology (ICT) in education, in general, is to familiarise learners with the use and workings of concepts and related methods with the help of computers.
Angela Andrews, school director at Jacaranda Academy, said to this end, Jacaranda Academy has embarked on the road to becoming a fully-fledged digital school by means of implementing ICT equipment and tools in the school’s teaching and learning processes as a pedagogy and methodology.
Jacaranda offers a unique, proven and powerful 21st-century teaching methodology, a bedrock of digital learning in a classroom through inter-connectedness, interactive, integrative and blended learning solutions.
This complete solution provides a new way of teaching by teachers and visual learning for learners.
Mr Rogers, HOD for the senior phase, highlighted some of the benefits of 21st-century classrooms at Jacaranda Academy.
“It provides an opportunity for the learners to discover through learning by doing. Learners learn to deal with problems while doing mathematical and other activities, which lays down a base for more abstract thinking and reasoning,” said Rogers.
“Secondly, it gives more scope for individual participation. It encourages learners to become autonomous learners and allows a learner to learn at his or her own pace.
“In addition, it widens the experiential base and prepares the ground for later learning of new areas in mathematics, life and physical sciences.
“Further benefits of 21st-century classrooms are that various puzzles and games are included in programmes, whereby learners learn to apply rules and constraints and they are given an opportunity to change these rules and constraints. This encourages peer to peer learning among learners.”
According to Andrews, one of the greatest benefits of 21st-century learning is individual learners get the time and opportunity to repeat an activity several times.
“Learners can revise and rethink the problem and solution. This helps to develop cognitive abilities.”
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