<html><body><div style="color:; background-color:; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Dear Harry, <br></span></div><div><span>You certainly have your first classmate in me when the centre opens:-)</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>I wish to add my voice to this thread.</span><span> I have taught English in high school and in a teacher training college in Kenya.</span><span> I do agree with those of us who argue that there may be a problem with the 'teaching'. In the typically 'instructivist' system that our curriculum propagates, one might easily deduce that if a teacher is bad, then the student can only be bad. If a teacher cannot score 350 points in an exam, then a student can only score lower. We know that typically, many students do better than their teachers would, and that a bad teacher of any subject is least helpful to a weak student.
<br></span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>With the multiple sources of information increasingly becoming available through ICT, and with the right information literacy skills imparted, students can be expected do better than their teachers in a number of tasks. If we must keep the teacher as the 'fountain of knowledge', then we must raise the cut-off and get only the best candidates into teaching positions. This has its challenges. If it is the case that ICTs are gradually changing the role of the teacher to being what I call 'the learner in charge', then we will need to dedicate our attention and resources to preparing pre-service and 're-tooling' in-service teachers for this new and extremely demanding role.<br></span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>This calls for an understanding of the place of ICT in teaching and teacher education in the first instance, and resource allocation for sustained teacher
professional development programmes.<br></span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>That's my take! <br></span></div><div> </div><div><span style="FONT-FAMILY:verdana;"><font size="2"><font style="FONT-WEIGHT:bold;" size="3"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="TEXT-DECORATION:underline;"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT:bold;"><span style="TEXT-DECORATION:underline;"></span></span></span></span></font><font size="2"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="TEXT-DECORATION:underline;"> </span><br></span></font></font></span><font style="FONT-WEIGHT:bold;"><span style="FONT-SIZE:small;" class="Apple-style-span"><font class="Apple-style-span"
face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Betty Obura Ogange, PhD </font></span></font><span style="FONT-SIZE:small;" class="Apple-style-span"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></span><span style="FONT-SIZE:small;" class="Apple-style-span"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Director, eLearning Centre <br>Maseno University<br></font></span><span style="font-family:verdana;"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><font size="1"><span style="text-decoration:underline;"> <br></span></font></span></font></span></div><div><span
style="FONT-SIZE:small;" class="Apple-style-span"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br><span style="font-weight:bold;color:rgb(0, 128, 255);"></span></font></span><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="Apple-style-span"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-weight:bold;"><br style="font-weight:bold;"><br></span></font></span></div><div><span style="FONT-FAMILY:verdana;"><font size="2"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><font size="1"><span style="TEXT-DECORATION:underline;"><br></span></font></span></font></span></div><div><br><div>----- Original Message -----<br>From: Harry Delano <harry@comtelsys.co.ke><br>To: ogange@yahoo.com<br>Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke><br>Sent: Wednesday, October 5, 2011 9:50 PM<br>Subject: Re: [kictanet] Declining English grammar in our Newsprint<br><br> <br><br><br>On a lighter
note, we probably will need to be a little more considerate<br>with our <br>brothers and sisters - indeed all of us who subscribe to 'Her Majesty's<br>language'<br>as our second, Third , Fourth language etcetra. Let alone that each one had<br>to go<br>through some compulsory language take up as part of their curriculum in High<br>School. <br>And yes 'English' was a 'must take'.<br><br>You see, it is always stated that this great language was visited upon us on<br>Her <br>Majesty's ship from a foreign land, hence from the word go, it has been<br>alien to <br>some of us, if not most.<br><br>Indeed, we also will be pleased about the giant strides we have made in<br>embedding <br>it on our national landscape, and in the process raising amongst us many of<br>those<br>who have a remarkable mastery and flowing command of this strange dialect.<br><br>Maybe, it is time to have a spoken and written English Language empowerment<br>centre,<br>I would wish to
enrol.<br><br>Just on a light note.<br><br>Harry<br><br><br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: kictanet-bounces+harry=<a ymailto="mailto:comtelsys.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke" href="mailto:comtelsys.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke">comtelsys.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a><br>[mailto:kictanet-bounces+harry=<a ymailto="mailto:comtelsys.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke" href="mailto:comtelsys.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke">comtelsys.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>] On<br>Behalf Of <a ymailto="mailto:godera@skyweb.co.ke" href="mailto:godera@skyweb.co.ke">godera@skyweb.co.ke</a><br>Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2011 3:02 PM<br>To: <a ymailto="mailto:harry@comtelsys.co.ke" href="mailto:harry@comtelsys.co.ke">harry@comtelsys.co.ke</a><br>Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions<br>Subject: Re: [kictanet] Declining English grammar in our Newsprint<br><br>Listers,<br><br>In my view this is but a reflection of how standards across the board have<br>fallen. There is simply no
pride in a good job done- casualness is the order<br>of the day.'It can pass' - so it is said.<br>We need to get back to the thoroughness that once was- ACROSS THE BOARD.<br><br>Gilda<br><br>Quoting James Kagwe <<a ymailto="mailto:kagwejg@gmail.com" href="mailto:kagwejg@gmail.com">kagwejg@gmail.com</a>>:<br><br>> I have also noted lots of typing errors on the scrolling text <br>> especially during 9.00 PM news on most of them.<br>> <br>> On 10/4/2011 11:11 PM, <a ymailto="mailto:bitange@jambo.co.ke" href="mailto:bitange@jambo.co.ke">bitange@jambo.co.ke</a> wrote:<br>> > All of today's newspapers had several grammatical errors. At this <br>> > time and<br>> age of ICT, is it not too embarrasing to have such errors? We have <br>> thousands of English majors without jobs. It is time for media to be <br>> thorough in what they do by utilizing our many graduates without jobs. <br>> As a Kenyan
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