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Diversifying approaches to teaching, learning

Conventional wisdom has its own flaws, especially in an ever-changing world. Things cannot remain unchanged when the world is moving in a different direction.

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.

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Depression is real; let's take care of our mental health

It is not uncommon in this part of the world for parents to actually punish their children when they show signs of depression associating it with issues of indiscipline, and as a result, the poor child will be lashed or given some kind of punishment. We have had many suicide cases in the country and sadly some of the cases included children and young adults. We need to start looking into issues of mental health with the seriousness it...

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