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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