Author:Butgereit, L; Botha, RADate:May 2010The mobile phone is quickly becoming the personal computer of Africa. In Africa the cell phone is widely used, for example, in banking, crime prevention, tracking applications for identification documents, and education. C³TO is an architecture ...Read more
Author:Butgereit, L; Botha, RADate:Mar 2010To the mathematics teachers who are comfortable with expressions like Ө, φ, Σ and Δ t, the terms “mxit”, “chatter bot”, “xmpp”, and “jabber” may sound like Greek to them. Although recent research has shown that primary and secondary school ...Read more
Author:Butgereit, L; Leonard, B; Le Roux, C; Rama, H; De Sousa, M; Naidoo, TDate:May 2010The current group of teenagers has been called many things – some of the terms unprintable in respectable publications. However terms such as the “thumb tribe” (because they can type faster on their cell phones with their thumbs than adults ...Read more
Author:Butgereit, L; Botha, RADate:Jan 2010Dr Math is a mobile tutoring system which has been running in South Africa for three years. It links primary and secondary school pupils to tutors in mathematics. The pupils use the popular Mxit chat client on their cell phones. The tutors ...Read more
Author:Botha, Adèle; Butgereit, LDate:Feb 2013In 2007, Laurie Butgereit, a researcher at the CSIR Meraka Institute, started to use Mxit as a communication channel to tutor her son in mathematics. Her son and a number of his friends logged in, and Dr Math was born. At the inception of Dr ...Read more
Author:Butgereit, LL; Botha, RADate:Sep 2010Scalability is a critical characteristic for successful software solutions - especially networked software and social software. Scalability can be defined as how well the software platform which provided help to primary and secondary school ...Read more