NGO Provides Multi-media Educational Content to 16 Under-privileged Schools

On Friday, 5th February 2010, sixteen schools from Limpopo, Gauteng, Eastern Cape and North West will receive training and educational content to help improve education at their communities. The participating schools have been nominated by Mindset Network’ staff members, who come from under-privileged communities and want to plough back to their schools. The content, called digital library contains curriculum aligned videos and interactive lessons of Grades 09 to 12 Physical Sciences, Mathematics, English, Mathematical Literacy, Information Technology and Financial Literacy.

Mindset Network has to date developed in excess of R60 million worth of curriculum aligned educational content for both primary and high school. This consists of over 280 hours of video content and almost 100 interactive multimedia lessons. Mindset has also been at the forefront of professional development, conducting training sessions for educators in both basic computer literacy and effective pedagogical methods.

It is in that spirit that Mindset Network interventions in schools take a holistic view of education. While Mindset intervention is to improve performance by learners, cognisance is taken of the role of the educator to facilitate this process. As a result, Mindset will provide training to the sixteen schools representatives before they receive the content.

Mindset Network sees the selected schools as partners in community development and believes that they shall serve as hubs for learners from other schools within their communities to benefit from the content that they are now becoming custodians of. Mr Roith Rajpal, Acting CEO of Mindset Network says, “Our intention is to set in motion a continuum in the sphere of education that shall yield optimum results using the limited resources available”. “This we believe is attainable only through cooperation, skills transfer and value adding partnerships amongst educators and other facilitators of the process of delivering high quality education”.

Please contact Goodman Chauke (Mindset Communications) for more: Cell: 083 506 3683 Email: goodman@mindset.co.za