Diversifying approaches to teaching, learning
Friday, September 19, 2025 | 30 Views |
In the recent past, the COVID-19 pandemic came and went, but taught us invaluable lessons.
One of them is the need to diversify approaches to teaching and learning. The big question is whether there is anything we learnt from the pandemic. It seems that during the pandemic, we adopted provisional measures geared towards surviving the ordeal rather than having sustainable adjustments that could usher in a completely novel dispensation. In the classroom theatre, COVID-19 had made teacher-student physical instructional interactions impossible. Students sat at home unattended to for a while.
A young man suspected of breaking into a car was seized by residents, severely assaulted, and died in the hospital within an hour. We unreservedly condemn this mob justice. It is not a solution to crime, but a criminal offence that turns citizens into murderers.Residents are understandably angry about theft. The person who raised the alarm at 4am acted lawfully, and the neighbours who rushed to help showed community spirit. But what followed was...