We at Kerria Primary believe that this is the future of education. We would like to expose our learners to the concept of ICT integration into the classroom. The WCED is in the process of rolling out Smart Classrooms in schools. Our school has, at this stage not been identified or have not been informed when we will be put on the list for installation and implementation. It could take five years or even more and therefore we are trying to be pro-active in the sense that we are attempting to get the buy-in from other sources to assist us. We would not like our learners to always stay behind the rest of the world in the introduction of new ways for learning and teaching to take place.
We currently have a learner enrolment of 1125 learners ranging from Grade R to Grade 7. We accomodate learners from the suburb of Protea Park and the informal settlement of Witsand as well as from other suburbs in Atlantis and from surrounding farms.
In terms of ICT infrastructure we have a 10 year old Khanya lab with 25 learner desktop computers and a recent donation of a mobile lab with 20 laptops from Vodacom. Our school only has 3 data projectors and 3 whiteboards. We also have two mobile devices to enable nteractivity on the whiteboards. This is definitely not enough to serve our 32 classes in the different grades.
That is why our goal is to start working towards acquiring the necessary hardware and curriculum aligned software for this ICT integration process to get under way. In the words of DDG Mr Brian Schreuder: "ICT integration should be an add-in and not an add-on".
