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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 Unruffled 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.

Have my say

How anxiety affects you

A drawn-out stressful situSince the coronavirus’ ation can make simple tasks spread began, almost all of feel more difficult than they us have been having that used to be. I experienced feeling of forgetting why I’m it myself since my Gerin another room dozens of man Consulate Office in times a day. We’re finding it Davao reopened. Both, my almost impossible to focus consulate clients and I got on anything at all. the same feelings. I can’t keep a phone

Feel like you can’t connumber in my head long centrate on anything at the enough to dial it, and it takes moment? You’re not alone. forever to write a simple The extra anxiety caused email. I start in on a task, by the Covid-19 pandemic and it’s only a few minutes has impaired our working before I’m distracted. My memory, experts say. As productivity has plumwriter and journalist, Kate meted. Meanwhile, when Morgan stresses several days at my home office alone, ago: we all know the feelit’s getting better step by ing. You walk into a room step... with a mission and then What was happening, stop, confused, and a little is a malfunction of workdisjointed, realizing you ing memory: the ability to have completely forgotten grasp incoming informawhy you’re there. tion, form it into a cohesive

They must be able to create

Make investment climate more attractive

AS the country prepares long term direct investments. for the ‘re-starting’of the Coronavirus has created economy amid the global economic uncertainty as it health crisis, it needs more were, and investors do not clarity in policy direction to want more to see tax and lure foreign investors. policy uncertainties.

Added to this, it should First and foremost, the alsl address some loopholes government should address in the corporate income concerns on corporate intax rate, widely seen as less come tax rates seen as ‘unattractive and ‘unfriendly’ friendly’ compared to its tax policy. Asian neighbors.

That said, the country Now in cobwebs in has faced the pandemic with Congress is the Corporate declining foreign direct inRecovery and Tax Incentives vestments from the previous for Enterprises Act (CREyear and triggered by the ATE), formerly known as uncertainty in corporate CITIRA, which seeks to cut tax reform. the corporate income tax

What is needed perhaps rate to 25 percent from 30 is the clarity of purpose for percent. foreign investors to make Moreover, lawmakers

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

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

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)