The Siyavula Educators solution
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Learn about the aspects that make the Siyavula product offering relevant to educators and learners across South Africa
Transcript of The Siyavula Educators solution
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Our focus
Our books …
● Curriculum-aligned
● Collaboratively authored
● Openly-licensed
● For ALL learners
Overview
Unique product offering
● Everything titles:– Free to copy and
distribute
– Device agnostic
– Coherent rich-media integration
– Assessment, practise and diagnostic services
– Community-enabled
Devices
● Print Digital↔
● Web– In class
– At home
– Offline version
Learners' own devices
Free, coherent learning experience
Kindle
Mobile and personal
● Model solutions
● Mobile reference
Mxit
Mxit
Maths: 85 000+ Physical Science: 75 000+
Unique product offering
● Everything titles:– Free to copy and
distribute
– Device agnostic
– Coherent rich-media integration
– Assessment, practise and diagnostic services
– Community-enabled
PhET simulations
The audio-visual learner
Which contains more of the original?
The audio-visual learner
Which contains more of the original?
Unique product offering
● Everything titles:– Free to copy and
distribute
– Device agnostic
– Coherent rich-media integration
– Assessment, practise and diagnostic services
– Community-enabled
Intelligent Practice
Simple questions
Simple questions
Complex answers
Complex answers
Complex answers
Complex answers
Chemical compounds Chemical equations
Multiple choice Algebraic expression
Fractions Interval Numeric
Polynomial Relational
Spectroscopic String
Examples from
Mathematics Grade 11 Finance→
Anatomy of an Intelligent Practice question
Both questions are generated from the same template.
Templates are frameworks for questions backed up by a computer programme allowing us to
generate many different questions automatically.
Let's analyse one in detail ….
109 |
109 Names
109 | 3 |
3 Objects
109 | 3 | 4 |
4 Banks
109 | 3 | 4 | 4 |
4 Verbs
109 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 8
8 Intervals for 3 periods
109 x 3 x 4 x 4 x 8 x 8 x 8 = 2 678 784
2 678 784 variations
All numbers are randomly generated!
Infinite variations
All three questions are generated from the same template.
Take a quick look at the first two again ….
Solutions form part of the template.
Let's analyse one in detail ….
We store the state of the random numbers
We can reproduce the exact question a learner saw
We determine the correct answers
Learners enter their answer and we check
Provide hints
Hints can lead to losing marks on the question or not
Provide step-by-step solution
Step 1 for this problem
Provide step-by-step solution
Step 2 for this problem
Provide step-by-step solution
Step 3 and 4 for this problem
We store prequisite knowledge and skills for each step
We even time how long each step takes learners
Targeted feedback
Scope:
Mathematics and Physical Science 10 – 12 Accessible via web, mobile and Mxit
More realistic:
Not just multiple choice questionsCompound questions
Support multiple response formats
Long-term tracking and analysis:
Concept mapTime tracking
Inter-subject linkage Physics Maths→
Unique product offering
● Everything titles:– Free to copy and
distribute
– Device agnostic
– Coherent rich-media integration
– Assessment, practise and diagnostic services
– Community-enabled
Community partners
Continuous improvement
A global network
Citizen Cyber Science
Options
Future development for 2013
CAPS-aligned Maths and Physical Sciences Grade 11
Revised Mathematics and Physical Sciences Grade 10
Life Sciences Grade 10Mathematical Literacy Grade 10
Sprint drills
Revision sequencing
School dashboard
www.everythingmaths.co.za
www.everythingscience.co.za
www.siyavula.com
