Staff developers then undertake action learning activities including training of other women academics in the 6 Technikons, with regular monthly progress review meetings. Key participants attend a leadership workshop in Australia to consult on progress and further develop skills through a mentoring program. Action learning activities then continue, with regular monthly feedback meetings. Skills are developed for report writing. There is a final conference presentation of findings of action learning and planning for future development activities.
Computer control involves the use of a computer to control events.
The children have had some limited experience of computer control, having used a Logo-based control language, Contact, to develop simple procedures to turn electrical components on and off. In the Primary School a child might experience computer control at first hand by using a computer to operate a Lego model or to sequence the lights on a set of model traffic lights. The power of the computer is in its ability to respond to changes in the environment fed back to it by switches or sensors. In the case of the traffic lights a single trigger might initiate a range of variable responses to fulfil a task. This offers the child an opportunity to develop more complex control solutions than would be possible with manual switching and presents a greater challenge to their thinking.