Education should be fun

I lecture Brand and Marketing, as well as Critical Thinking and Media Studies at Vega School, where I have previously served as a Module Discipline Leader (MDL) in the Brand and Marketing field. I also lecture Promotional Writing at AFDA Johannesburg. I have lectured in Journalism at Boston Media House (BMH) and also served as Course Coordinator and Marketing manager for Van Zyl & Pritchard (Vzap, a private Java training house. I believe education should be fun and I take great care to provide a learning space where students can speak freely, think critically, learn to think analytically, and play. I have had great success in adapting my mainstream classes to be inclusive of different learning levels, needs, and even disabilities.  

Vega is the brightest star in the Lyra constellation, so to be a Bright Star as a lecturer in this context is quite special!

Given a task of building a structure to drop an egg two stories while keeping intact as a group dynamics practical exercise, students came forward with very creative solutions - and had fun.
Given a task of building a structure to drop an egg two stories while keeping intact as a group dynamics practical exercise, you can trust the coding and game design students to bring a drone into it!
Given a task of building a structure to drop an egg two stories while keeping intact as a group dynamics practical exercise, students came forward with very creative solutions - and had fun.
Given a task of building a structure to drop an egg two stories while keeping intact as a group dynamics practical exercise, students came forward with very creative solutions - and had fun.
Given a task of building a structure to drop an egg two stories while keeping intact as a group dynamics practical exercise, you can trust the coding and game design students to bring a drone into it!
Given a task of building a structure to drop an egg two stories while keeping intact as a group dynamics practical exercise, students came forward with very creative solutions. And even when they failed - spectacularly - they learned in the process a

The Covid-19 education shift

The Covid-19 pandemic shifted the education landscape to be primarily online. I was already teaching online classes at Vega School when the first lockdown was put in place in South Africa and was able to not only adapt quickly to the new teaching norm but also to assist other lecturers to do the same through my role as Module Discipline Leader (MDL) at Vega. However, online teaching heightened the existing inequalities in our society with many students not being able to afford high-speed data connections or smart devices. I have therefore developed a range of teaching interventions and tools that include low-data use techniques to ensure no student gets left behind. These same techniques are used in workshops that I facilitate where I provide students with clear parameters

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Bloom’s taxonomy sets out my fundamental approach to education outcomes and I have drawn on this as the basis for my pedagogical approach, especially when developing assessments for the IIE.

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