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Healing Power:The downward willow branches reminds one of the gentle and inward aspect of the human emotions, bringing our attention inward.
Stabilizer of the Environment: The
Medicinal Qualities:
Beautifier of the Scenery: The tree serves also as a visual and auditory screen.
Life Supporting: The leaves support the larvae of moths and butterflies. The soft twigs provide winter food for small animals.
The new GET blog is designed to act like a humble Willow Tree and encourage debate on e-curriculum issues. It will try to - bring healing power to the GET curriculum; stabilize the facilitating process at schools and act like medicine to readers via the contributions and related comments. Further, the outcomes of workshops will be posted on the blog to clarify GET concepts; it will strive to beautify all relevant documentation so that the deliverables are understood by all and it will seek to give life to education and its stakeholders, the learners.
By contributing to the Willow Tree you can help to ensure successful delivery of LIT/NUM and Roxy & Robo to our schools and learners as well as posting requests regarding what you would like to gain from the GET Willow Tree blog.
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
The GET Willow
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7 comments:
Literacy and Numeracy are a very important aspect of a learners school life. For this we need dedicated facilitators, supportive emdc staff and diligent teachers. Together we'll bond and strive to give make the GET interventions work.
Successful implementation of LIT/NUM should be the challenge for GET Facilitators. Let us ALL strive to be really flexible to achieve this GOAL - our attitudes, methods, approaches, strategies, applications, relationships and other human characteristics should be like the soft twigs of the Willow tree - gentle breezes often set the entire tree in motion. So must we also be – set LITNUM in motion by starting with the little breezes.
Welcome to cyberspace GEE EE TEE Team. One wishes that the value of this "opinion space" becomes evident as comments are posted. ANY tool is dependent on its users, and so too this blog space is dependent on the continually enthused viewers and commentators.
GET often plays second fiddle to the Matric and Senior school subjects but yet it is the phase where the all-important building blocks are layered. Could ICT play a role for the 6-8 year olds to work independently? Should it?
Congratulations Wendy on the creation of this blog. I'm sure that the comments made by all parties will be useful to your team and your planning. Craig
I'm so excited to be part of this fascinating phase of intervention and hopefully the teachers will enjoy the journey with us all in helping the learners becoming that future we all dream of...The biggest challenge during the intervention program will be the schools ability to buy into the plan of action and run with it. Hopefully the GET with use this Cyber space to share and spread the Good news of good ITC practices in schools.
The blog gives an indication of the characteristics of the willow tree. It’s healing power, stabilizing the environment, its medicinal qualities, a beautifier and best of all ‘life supporting’. I believe that these are the characteristics all educators must have. It links very well to the seven roles of an educator. More emphasis should be placed on numeracy and literacy education in the GET phase as to improve results in the FET phase.
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