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Mon-Tue, June 22-23, 2020
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Education for the post covid-19 THE last question I raised in the ASEAN conference on June 20, 2020, made me amazed. My question is about what to do in the education sector for the post-covid-19. One of the co-presenters responded that it would be suitable for applying a blended system. In my perception blended system means more than merely a system of teaching: online and conventional. Blended system –in my opinion—includes the materials and methods of teaching and strategies of learning. All these should try to make the pupils or students creative. If we are not creative we will not be able to survive. We will lose. In businesses, we will go to bankruptcy. I was amazed seeing the Mindanao Daily—through the publisher’s postings on his Facebook account—that Mindanao now has other new diversification. As I
have observed so far, there has been new diversification of services. One is a Radio station and the other is transportation. Both are named Mindanao. They are Mindanao Radio station and Mindanao Taxi transportation. What do we create? Education is the central point to make the nations survive. Therefore, educating the people for surviving is the key. It is the key to any success. But, have all schools and universities educate the people for that purpose? Creating new products or services is key. In other words, education must make the nation creative. So, a blended system means many things. It means creating new methods of teaching. It can also mean the strategies of learning for the pupils and students. However, it also means how to make the nation creative. They must be able to create
Dr. Djuwari
new products or services. All the blended systems of course can lead to efficiency. When schools or universities have online classes, they will not consume electricity. They won’t consume water in schools or campuses. They won’t consume transportation from home to school or campuses. They won’t’ consume time for they have to stay at home. When schools and universities can make the nation creative, the nation will be able to survive. People can create something new. They can be new services or new products. A New normal era is different from the normal era as we have experienced before COVID-19. See EDUCATION, page 11
Have my say
How anxiety affects you
A drawn-out stressful situation can make simple tasks feel more difficult than they used to be. I experienced it myself since my German Consulate Office in Davao reopened. Both, my consulate clients and I got the same feelings. Feel like you can’t concentrate on anything at the moment? You’re not alone. The extra anxiety caused by the Covid-19 pandemic has impaired our working memory, experts say. As writer and journalist, Kate Morgan stresses several days ago: we all know the feeling. You walk into a room with a mission and then stop, confused, and a little disjointed, realizing you have completely forgotten why you’re there.
Since the coronavirus’ spread began, almost all of us have been having that feeling of forgetting why I’m in another room dozens of times a day. We’re finding it almost impossible to focus on anything at all. I can’t keep a phone number in my head long enough to dial it, and it takes forever to write a simple email. I start in on a task, and it’s only a few minutes before I’m distracted. My productivity has plummeted. Meanwhile, when at my home office alone, it’s getting better step by step... What was happening, is a malfunction of working memory: the ability to grasp incoming information, form it into a cohesive
Klaus Doring
thought, and hold onto it long enough to do what you need to with it. “Think of it as the mental platform for our cognitive operations, for what we’re thinking now,” says Matti Laine, a professor of psychology at Åbo Akademi University in Finland. “Working memory is closely related to attention. You’re focusing on some task, some goal, some directive or behavior you want to get accomplished.” In other words, working memory is the ability to See ANXIETY, page 11
Unruffled
Make investment climate more attractive AS the country prepares for the ‘re-starting’of the economy amid the global health crisis, it needs more clarity in policy direction to lure foreign investors. Added to this, it should alsl address some loopholes in the corporate income tax rate, widely seen as less attractive and ‘unfriendly’ tax policy. That said, the country has faced the pandemic with declining foreign direct investments from the previous year and triggered by the uncertainty in corporate tax reform. What is needed perhaps is the clarity of purpose for foreign investors to make
long term direct investments. Coronavirus has created economic uncertainty as it were, and investors do not want more to see tax and policy uncertainties. First and foremost, the government should address concerns on corporate income tax rates seen as ‘unfriendly’ compared to its Asian neighbors. Now in cobwebs in Congress is the Corporate Recovery and Tax Incentives for Enterprises Act (CREATE), formerly known as CITIRA, which seeks to cut the corporate income tax rate to 25 percent from 30 percent. Moreover, lawmakers
Ruffy Magbanua
should likewise help businesses recover from the pandemic by approving the proposed economic stimulus programs. The passage of several packages is geared towards helping businesses adapt to the ‘new normal’, including the recalibrated corporate income tax package CREATE and the Philippine Economic Stimulus Act. (ruffy44_ph2000@yahoo. com)
