Lowering pass requirements is not the answer
The Department of Basic Education is considering lowering the pass requirements in schools
MOKOPANE – Is lowering the requirements to pass in school truly the answer or are we only fueling the fire?
Minda Marshall from Lectorsa, a company in Mokopane that supply solutions internationally to the primary, secondary, tertiary and also the corporate sector, said today we live in a technology and media-suffused environment with access to an abundance of information and our expectations for students and also in the workplace have increased dramatically, but our methods of interacting with information have not.
“Learners are already challenged and need improved development of skills and strategies in order to not only survive but excel in the environments they will have to function in. Lowering the standard is not the answer we are looking for. Due to the explosion of data a gap (the information/application GAP) was formed between the student and the curriculum placing learners, students and our workforce under a lot of strain resulting in poor academics and a decrease in work readiness.
“We need to bridge this gap by re-wiring learners’ minds through developing their cognitive and visual processing skills and by equipping them with the right ‘tools’ so they can succeed in this globally and digitally interconnected world.”
Marshall said Lectorsa has developed an online Mind Activation Solution namely LAB-online and after more than 30 years of research and development, it does exactly that by training and increasing eye-brain performance they produce healthier and stronger minds in their users. LAB helps users to improve and develop their critical thinking, problem solving, questioning research, creativity, reading and written communication skills.
“Life-long learning is the only way to sustain proficient learning in the world we live in today. Never before has it been more important to activate student minds, train and develop accurate ways to facilitate the process of reading and improve comprehension through cognitive development. I stand by my view that the answer does not lie in lowering the pass rate, but in re-imagining our methods of teaching.”
