Brian Kazungu, 30/12/2020
The outbreak of the Corona virus (Covid-19) brought with it many changes to the way how things are done globally and one of the new normal has been the adoption of technology in remotely doing tasks that were traditionally done on company premises.
People can now do their work related tasks from the comfort of their homes and yet still achieve the same or better results as the Forth Industrial Revolution (4IR) has capacitated the workforce to either work from home or on the move in delivering services to their targeted clients.
One other area which has also quickly adopted technology in response to the Covid-19 pandemic is the educational sector.
Instead of the traditional classroom, lessons or lectures can now be conducted online at the convenience of both teachers and students while maintaining safe social distance according to the Corona virus related health guidelines.
One such great techno-related school management system and educational platform for conducting lessons online is eduSYMS, where individuals, corporates and the academia can offer lessons to their targeted students with the help of effective and user friendly information technology tools.
As people adopt technology in delivering education related services, it is also critical to find out what is it that a student must look for before engaging an online teacher on a certain course or subject?
Are there certain specific attributes that you look for in an individual before you accept them as your teacher or it’s only the content/syllabus that matters?
In getting to such a shared understanding of an informed and mutually beneficial engagement between teachers and their students, questions may arise as to who is a teacher and what is a teacher as shown in the conversation between Mutumwa Mawere and Goodman Musariri.
[12/29, 8:31 PM] Goodman Musariri: Who is the TEACHER?
What is a Teacher? Do we have a common understanding that you are the teacher? What is a teacher?
[12/29, 8:53 PM] mdmawere1: To me s teacher is a student who chooses to learn before sharing his or her temporary monopoly of knowledge on specific matters forming the chosen subject matter of a class.
However, in this matter, no one can claim any knowledge that is superior but when minds meet on a problem, perspectives and paradigms can follow without any pre-qualification or script.
[12/29, 8:56 PM] Goodman Musariri: Mr. Mutumwa Mawere do you agree or acknowledge that all your zeal, knowledge, skills, versatility, dexterity, ingenuity etc. were offset by ‘cunning’ political leaders?
The SMM matter is testimony of how political leaders are able to make a great entrepreneur a FUGITIVE.
It will take another greater political leader like President Goodman Tamuona Musariri 2023-2033 to give you back SMM and to restore your standing.
SMM issue just like Makamba’s issues during Mugabe era, is at the mercy of a future president or Political Will.
Invest in a future President and better politics from 2023-2033 and get: Restitution, Reparations, Indemnity, Compensation and Restoration for the opportunity costs incurred against the SMM saga.
[12/29, 9:00 PM] Goodman Musariri: Let’s agree that the colonial and post-colonial education we received and continue to receive remains somewhat IRRELEVANT.
Professors and Doctors of Smith’s regime are as good as people who can’t read and write because they read irrelevant information.
Imagine a group like – What is a Leader? , taking too long to agree that political leaders lead Economic Leaders, Social leaders and Technological Leaders???
[12/29, 9:19 PM] mdmawere1: Why do you wish to volunteer sharing on matters that may fall outside your personal knowledge?
I respond as follows just to provoke others to think of being part of a learning community.
1. I cannot agree or acknowledge a nullity. Common sense, logic and reason compel any rational mind to know better that no cunning political actor would survive the scrutiny and vigilance of active citizens.
Accepting that an agent of the people can be cunning and get away with the alleged mischief suffers the burden of the author acknowledging his dereliction of civic duty to speak truth to power.
How can one seek to glorify the implied abuse of public power yet aspire to gloss over the recognized abuse in the misplaced premise that public power is so seductive as to be an end in the quest for a better life?
2. You state as fact that: “The SMM matter is testimony of his political leaders are able to make a great entrepreneur a fugitive.” One need not remind you again that no public office bearer can claim any legitimacy absent the consent and perhaps acquiescence of the people in whose name a government is instituted.
You will have known by now that before claiming to act on behalf of another’s lived experiences, is always safe to ask.
For your information, I last received mail in Zimbabwe in 1988.
Arithmetic literacy would tell you that a person who voluntarily exited from Zimbabwe some 32 years ago can hardly qualify to be labelled a FUGITUVE.
Please don’t allow your political ambitions, if this is the incentive that informs your invented or augmented reality to undermine common sense, logic and reason.
I am not a fugitive and have never been.
History is your story and refraining from substituting your reality should be the humanly thing to do.
You proceed to conclude that my choice to share experiences and insights is motivated by a self-help agenda and in so doing interpose your great mind on facts that fall outside your personal knowledge.
This is not an act of good and exemplary citizenship.
You will no doubt appreciate that civics has duties associated to its rights. There should be no free citizenship because any abuse of public power has a real cost.
No President should be above the law yet the import of your thinking is that there is nothing wrong in celebrating ideas and ideals that offend constitutional morality.
I would have thought by now through your association with me, you would have known and appreciated that ILLITERACY could be one of the biggest challenge in play.
I trust that you will desist using SMM as a reference until you have submitted to the limitations imposed on you to use hearsay as a substitute for evidence.
I shudder to think what would follow if you became a President of living humans without respecting facts as they were created by other humans and reserving your reflections on your own lived reality.