Covid-19 - Infectious disease that even infected the education system

 

Covid-19 has come and gone. The education system has lived through it and continues to suffer its repercussions. With Covid-19, the education system embraced a lot of 4ir, technology and online learning. This brought about the need for technology literate students and emphasized the importance of 4ir seriously. This however highlighted the need for a teacher researcher who would come up with ways to deliver effective and relevant education to the crisis of Covid-19. It also highlighted the lack of resources in schools which made learning difficult as well as the development of technology literate students close to impossible. It highlighted the inequalities in South Africa where in schools and higher institutions of learning the have and the have nots were very prevalent in terms of who could access this online education and continue to learn. Covid-19 has also shown the possibility of many jobs being done remotely and this is the direction that a lot of employment has taken, if the job is not fully remote it is partially remote which then tells us that the jobs of the future need technology literate people. It is also showing us that a lot of capital is in the technology. The question is, are the learners of today being equipped for this world that they are heading into.

 Video giving insight into the sort of inequalities Covid-19 highlighted in the educational system

(2020)