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ISTE 2017
Conference programme
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ISTE 201722 October 2017 (Sunday)
14h00 - 18h00: Arrival and Registration (Reception & Foyer)
18h30 - 18h45: Opening CeremonyVenue: Dining Hall
Introduction and overview of the conference: Prof David Mogari Welcome: Prof M Havenga (Dean of College of Graduate Studies)
18h45 – 19h45 Dinner (Restaurant)
23 October 2017 (Monday)07h30 – 08h15: Breakfast (Restaurant) & Registration (Foyer)
08h30 – 9h00: Welcome Venue: Main Hall
Opening of Conference: Prof G Moche (Vice Principal: Teaching, Leaning, Community Engagement and Student Support) Chair: Prof David Mogari
9h00 - 10h30: Plenary Session 1Prof M Inprasitha (Thailand)
Title: Open Approach lesson study: 15 years of innovation for teaching mathematics in Thailand Venue: Main Hall Chair: Dr Ronel Paulsen
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10h30 - 11h00: Tea (Foyer)
MONVenue: Main Hall
Mathematics EducationChair: Hantie Kotze
Venue: Matomena 1Life Science Education
Chair: Lindelani Mnguni
Venue: Matomena 2Technology Education
Chair: Atsumbe Bernard Numgwo
Venue: Matomena 3Physics Education
Chair: Leelakrishna Reddy
11h00-11h30
Promoting critical thinking in multilingual mathematics classes
through questioning: are teachers truly cultivating it?
Clemence Chikiwa and Marc Schäfer
A closer look into assessment’s role in teachers’ teaching style and learner
performance in life sciences: a case of two schools of different contexts in the North West Province of South
AfricaKgomotsego Samuel and Washington
Dudu
Student experiences when using kits and simulation software for electrical
engineering
Lesley Nickola, Gert Jonker and Jeanne Kriek
Probing students' understanding and scientific thinking of Equations of
Motion in Kinematics
Leelakrishna Reddy
11h30-12h00
Supervision Practices as Quality Assurance for Mathematics Pre-service Teachers in Zimbabwe.
Chipo Makamure
Pre-service teachers’ analysis of the meaningfulness and relevance of Life Sciences curriculum to South African
learners
Lydia Mavuru
Effects of scaffolding and collaborative instructional approaches on science
and technical school students’ achievement in basic electronics in
North-CentraL Nigeria
Atsumbe Bernard Numgwo, Raymond Emmanuel, Samuel Ayanda Owodunni and Maxwell Emmanuel Uduafemhe
Using computer simulations as pedagogical reasoning tool in the
teaching of electromagnetism
Maxwell Tsoka and Jeanne Kriek
12h00-12h30
Towards contexts with mathematical modelling tasks
Hanti Kotze
Effective undergraduate practices and interventions preparing students for honours studies in biological sciences
Janice Williamson, Estherna Pretorius and Melanie Jacobs
Effective teaching and learning of Orthographic Projection – An
innovative approach
Thomas Masvosve
Flipped classroom model: development of a teaching sequence
for pre-service teachers in geometrical optics
Vengayi Nesbert Dhamu and Jeanne Kriek
12h30-13h00
Exploring Grade 12 learners’ problem solving approaches to trigonometric
equations
Paul Mutodi
Curriculum Ideologies and Socio-Scientific Issues in Life Sciences
Lindelani Mnguni
Models as tools of Conceptual Change in Teaching Engineering Science
Concepts
Babele Moletsane and Tdt Sedumedi
Gender differences in attitude to Laboratory experiences of Laboratory
Teaching of Physical Science at a South African university
Leelakrishna Reddy
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13h00 - 14h00: Lunch (Restaurant)
MON
Venue: Main hallMathematics Education
Chair: Percy Sepeng
Venue: Matomena 1IT Education
Chair: Leila Goosen
Venue: Matomena 2Science education
Chair: Washington T. Dudu
Venue: Matomena 3Student supervision workshop
Marc Schäfer
14h00-14h30
Investigating the attitudinal differences of students in service and main stream
courses towards statistics
Rina Durandt and Vaughan van Appel
Investigating the acceptance of digital technologies in an excel course
Trudie Benadé and Janet Liebenberg
Students’ and Teachers’ Alternative Conceptions about Electrochemistry
Sipho Dlamini and Enunuwe Ochonogor
Marc Schäfer
SAARChI Chair in Mathematics Education
14h30- 15h00
Technology and its relationships with distance and online learning constructs in
undergraduate mathematics in Nigeria
Comfort Reju and Loyiso Jita
Making more effective use of apps: designing meaningful professional
learning networks
Geoffrey Lautenbach and David M Kennedy
Role of context in shaping the pedagogical orientations of teachers
towards science teachingLydia Mavuru
The intricacies of post-graduate supervision – an interactive workshop
15h00-15h30
Intermediate phase educators’ alternative conceptions in the curriculum
implementation of fundamental mathematics
Mantepu T Masetshaba, Shadrack Moalosi and Percy Sepeng
The Effects of Course Design Characteristics, Self-Regulated Learning
and Knowledge Sharing in Facilitating the Development of Innovative Behaviour
among Technology Students at Universities
James Ngugi and Leila Goosen
Chemistry 2.0: Building and disseminating chemistry through
students-generated web 2.0 content
Carla Morais, Luciano Moreira, João C. Paiva, Juliana Monteiro, Hugo Vieira
and Diogo Santos
This workshop aims to deconstruct post-graduate supervision and critically interrogate the following phases of supervising a thesis:
15h30-16h00
What is the nature of errors that grade 4 - 6 teachers make when re-learning school
mathematics?
Nothile Kunene, Mantepu T Masetshaba and Percy Sepeng
Towards a framework for partnerships between universities and e-schools
Mattheus Johan Vorster and Leila Goosen
Do imbalances of the past count anymore? “teaching practices” of two
physical sciences teachers in two South African high schools
Washington T. Dudu and Kgomotsego Brenda Samuel
Conceptualization and foundation phase
Implementation and field work phase
Writing phase Conclusion phase
16h00-16h30
Refining pas with the help of students
Romeo Botes and Imelda Smit
Enhancing Physical Science teachers’ subject matter knowledge of
Stoichiometry in the context of an intervention
Suzan Selina Kelebogile Segwe
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18h00 – 20h00: Dinner
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24 October 2017 (Tuesday)07h45 – 08h30: Breakfast (Restaurant)
08h30-10h00: Plenary session 2Prof Carmel Mc Carmel Naught (Hong Kong)
Title: Community and Curriculum: Strategies for overcoming key challenges in MSTEVenue: Main Hall Chair: Prof Jeanne Kriek.
10h00 – 10h30 Official photo of conference
10h30 – 11h00: Tea (Foyer)
TUES Venue: Main hallMathematics
Chair: Marthie van der Walt
Venue: Matomena 1 IT Education
Chair: Adele Botha
Venue: Matomena 2Science Education
Chair: Thuthukile Jita
Venue Matomena 3Student Proposal defence/
MathematicsChair: Sonja v Putten
11h00-11h30
Developing local instructional theories and local theories:
preconceptions of lesson study
Divan Jagals and Marthie van der Walt
Correlating performance and digital learning habits in a higher-education
institution
Duan van der Westhuizen and Leoné Michaels
In search of a working strategy: the aha… moment of life and physical
sciences teachers of two best performing high schools in the North
West province of South Africa.
Kgomotsego Samuel and Washington Dudu
In search of a working PhD proposal defence of candidate:
Vernon Candiotes, Supervisor: Willem Rauscher, Sonja
van PuttenCritical Readers:
Max BraunGilbert Onwu
11h30-12h00
Metacognitive transference: what portfolios tell us about
contextualised mathematics
Marthie van der Walt, Divan Jagals and Erika Potgieter
Conceptualizing a tpd based on a South African success model
Melanie Platz, Marlien Herselman and Adele Botha
Instructional leadership practices in science and mathematics education: A
comparative study of two middle schools
Maria Tsakeni and Loyiso Jita
In search of a working PhD proposal defence of candidate:
Vernon Candiotes, Supervisor: Willem Rauscher , Sonja
van PuttenCritical Readers:
Max BraunGilbert Onwu
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TUES Venue: Main hallMathematics
Chair: Marthie van der Walt
Venue: Matomena 1 IT Education
Chair: Adele Botha
Venue: Matomena 2Science Education
Chair: Thuthukile Jita
Venue Matomena 3Student Proposal defence/
MathematicsChair: Sonja v Putten
12h00-12h30
Student teachers’ authentic introduction to mathematical
modelling: a design-based approach
Rina Durandt, Gerrie Jacobs and Geoffrey Lautenbach
Work-integrated learning: The case of second year IT students
Lynette Drevin
Science teaching with ICTs: pre-service teachers’ opportunities to learn (OTL)
for and during teaching practice
Thuthukile Jita
12h30-13h00
The development of a ratio and proportion intervention model to
improve the proportional reasoning skills of Mathematical Literacy
learners in Grade 10
Wilmoth Simelane and Ronel Paulsen
Dimensional evaluation of a rural mobile learning teacher professional
development curriculum
Adele Botha, Marlien Herselman, Sarietjie Musgrave and Glynis Jaeschke
The Mélange of Curriculum Ideologies in Natural And Life Sciences
Lindelani Mnguni
High School Learners’ Understanding of Low Carbon Economy
Adejoke C. Olufemi*, Andile Mji and Mukhola S. Murembiwa
13h00 - 14h00: Lunch (Restaurant)
14h00 -16h00PRESENTATION: Writing a winning grant proposal
Prof G OnwuVenue: Main Hall
16h00 - 18h00: Time off for self-game-drive in the Kruger National Park// 18h00 - 19:00: Dinner (Restaurant)
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25 October 2017(Wednesday)07h45 - 08h30: Breakfast (Restaurant)
08h30 - 10h00: Plenary Session 3Prof Irene Govender
Title: Facilitating problem solving and critical thinking in STEM subjects: A change in pedagogy in a modern learning contextVenue: Main Hall Chair: Prof Keshnee Padayachee
10h00 - 10h30: Tea (dining hall)
WED Venue: Main hallMathematics EducationChair: Kakoma Luneta
Venue Matomena 1ICT/Technology in EducationChair: Geoffrey Lautenbach
Venue: Matomena 2Science Education
Chair: Marié Du Toit
10h30-11h00
Current and historical discourses in mathematics cognition research: A review of the literature
related to learning in neuroscience
Kakoma Luneta
Using mobile technologies for self-regulation in high school learners’ stress management
Geoffrey Lautenbach and Nardia Randell
The journey starts with a single “sip” The use of the Japanese lesson study and sensory
tea wheels in the teaching of Indigenous Knowledge in the Life Sciences classroom
Sanette Brits, Josef de Beer and Rash Kgopong
11h00-11h30
Analysing solution strategies across addition and subtraction word problem focused grade 2
numeracy tasksGift Cheva and Kakoma Luneta
A visualization artefact to support learning in databases
Imelda Smit and Romeo Botes
An analysis of the learners poor performance at science fairs
Sure Mupezeni and Jeanne Kriek
11h30-12h00
Language and learner achievement in mathematics assessment in the Foundation Phase
Ingrid Sapire and Gareth Roberts
Evaluation of South Africa University Lecturers Accessibility and Utilization of E-Learning
Infrastructure for TeachingOloyede Ojo and Emmanuel Adu
The impact of the ENGEN project on the understanding of Physical Science in Mogwase
Marié Du Toit
12h00-12h30
Cognitive engagement or cognitive load: which limits learning in the mathematics classroom
Joanne David and Ronel Paulsen
Using self-paced online tutorials to bridge the digital divide among first-year students
Duan van der Westhuizen
The validation of an epistemological tool for the characterisation of IK practices with a view to selective inclusion in a science curriculum
Max Braun, Gilbert Onwu and Gracious Zinyeka
12h30 -13h00
The Impact Of Using Geogebra To Teach Circle Geometry On Grade 11 Students’ Achievement
Alfred Chimuka and Ugorji Ogbonnaya
A systematic review of the M and D research focus areas in natural science and technology education in some South African universitiesBongani Bantwini and Nkagisang Motaung
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13h00 - 14h00: Lunch (Restaurant)
WED Venue: Main hallMathematics Education
Chair: Ingrid Sapire
Venue Matomena 1Life Science EducationChair: Lounell White
Venue: Matomena 2Science Education
Chair: Gherda Ferreira
14h00-14h30
Teachers’ reflection on the application of error analysis in mathematics teaching
Belinda Huntley, Ingrid Sapire and Yael Shalem
Seeking ecological connections in the foundation phase: plants are things but animals are animals
Francois Naude
The effect of professional development on science teachers’ classroom practice
Maria Kekana and Estelle Gaigher
14h30-15h00
Developing Local Instructional Theories and Local Theories: Preconceptions of Lesson Study
Divan Jagals and Marthie Van der Walt
Natural science teacher attitudes and pedagogical content knowledge for teaching botany
Amelia L. Abrie and Deidre Lombaard
Khoi-San indigenous knowledge for science citizenship
Melissa Speight Vaughn
15h00-15h30
Exploring Grade 9 learners’ knowledge of properties of quadrilaterals
Benard Chigonga, Gladys Kahle and Kabelo Chuene
A leap too far: An evaluation of teachers’ learning during a three day short learning programme
Lounell White and Josef De Beer
Using social media for life sciences and environmental education
Elza Venter and Gherda Ferreira
15h30 – 16h00
Investigating a teacher development programme on the use of concept mapping to teach data
handling in grade 4Motshidisi Masilo
Science concepts for the integration of the grade one life skills curriculum
Charnay Sargent and Francois Naude
Science teaching orientations for CAPS physical sciences practical work: A case study
Maria Tsakeni
Leave on sun-set drive and bush braai: 16h00 – 20h3018h30 - 20h30: Gala dinner & bush braai (Supper in the bush)
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26 October 2017 (Thursday)07h45 - 08h30: Breakfast (Restaurant)
08h30 - 10h00: Plenary Session 4Josef De Beer
The elephant in the room: the work-integrated learning of student teachers, and the influence of teacher educator scholarship on their professional development
Venue: Main Hall Chair: Prof Harrison Atagana
10h00 - 10h30: Tea (dining hall)THU Venue: Matomena 2
Science EducationChair: Mia Abrie
Venue: Matomena 3Policy and Science EducationChair: Charlene Du Toit-Brits
10h30-11h00
The indigenous knowledge debate in life sciences: what about Indian indigenous
knowledge?
Camantha Reddy, Josef De Beer and Neal Petersen
Teachers as Self-Directed Continuous Learners
Charlene Du Toit-Brits
11h00-11h30
Implementation of Natural sciences and Technology practical activities by novice and expert
teachers
Amelia L. Abrie and Patricia Makhubele
Explaining learner's difficulties with everyday words in learning Physical Sciences
Zamani Sithole and Nkopodi Nkopodi
12h0013h30
Official closing of the conference Lunch
Time off for self-game-drive in the Kruger National Park18h00 - 20h00: Dinner
27 October 2017 (Friday)08h00 - 11h00: Departure
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