My final school year
at St Josef’s comprehensive school
https://www.google.co.za/maps/place/St+Joseph's+Comprehensive+School/
A school in the rural area of
Limpopo province in a small village called Ten Morgan. There were only about three
houses surrounding our school, situated far apart from each other. Next to the
school was a Roman catholic church and a preschool.
I must say, matriculating then
was a bit hard. We didn’t have the privileges of computers nor the internet.
There was a computer room at our school, but it was always locked. In fact, we
were not allowed inside when it was open. Only teachers were allowed, but they
used it as a dining room during lunch time.
The teachers did not use
technology to teach. Not even a single teacher. All they used was paper, pen,
chalk and chalkboard. How I wish I was introduced to the technology life
earlier. It would have come in handy on my biology, physical science and maths
homework and assignments. I bet I would have gotten straight A’s
My school entrance, muddy after
a rainy. Luckily I didn’t have a phone or I would have had worries of it
getting wet.
Mr
Mathabathe. An accounting and economics teacher. He didn’t teach me but he was
one of the memorable teachers because he was friendly with all students and
called female ones “rakgadi”, which is a Sotho word for aunt.
Only if our teachers knew that not having computer skills or being computer literate affects us negatively when we get to university levels. Having computers but not using them is a bit disturbing. Learners should not be denied the opportunity to learn other skills if the resources are there.
ReplyDeleteSoo true Zana. Now i spent close to 5minutes looking for a printscreen button on my keyboard lol. But we shall catch up.
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Soo true Zana. Now i spent close to 5minutes looking for a printscreen button on my keyboard lol. But we shall catch up.
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3 houses around your school!Wow how I wish I can see the place you are talking about.Nice piece of writing u got there,and Iam pretty sure we will graduate having that knowledge of technology around us.
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ReplyDeleteits hard to believe that there are still schools that have no computers because the internet allows students to have excess to the world when doing their research. I really hope that someone from the department of education will see this and go and bring change to the school
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ReplyDeleteSometimes some teachers are not role models, they do not lead by good example to learners. But who knows? Maybe they did not allow learners to use those computers because of some reasons, but it does not seem so as they were using the computer room for enjoying their lunch which is wrong.Those teachers and the principal did not think their learner's future. Maybe they were jealous that during their school years they did not use them and revenge on the innocent learners because it is not their fault.
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