The Resumption of Belief

So I asked on my Facebook what I could write about for today's blog with the theme of education in the new era. Ironically, the only response was the lack ICT in South African public schools. Abbreviated for Information, and Communication Technology, in short, it is the integration of education with digital tools and knowledge. Now that would seem a pretty simple and obvious endeavor in the contemporary world wouldn't it? Well, the project started nearly ten years ago, and only because of the pandemic in 2020 did we actually see a real integration of digital tools and education, because we were forced to. I think for many educators in South Africa the digital migration has seemed pointless, even now "post" pandemic, there has been a great regression in the acceptance of digital literacies. And I think this is where the issue really begins. The unaccepting of change and integration is something I'm sure stems from our segregated past, but it has seeped its way thro

"Every day I live to dream, but in every dream, I dream of living." Shortened to: Live to dream. Dream to live. As it is inscribed on the unders of my arms. I came up with this quote many a year ago, inspired by James Dean's "Live as though you'll die today, dream as if you'll live forever", it was meant to encapsulate my life as I saw it, like a dream. "Awe cool!" you might be thinking, how cliched of me to get a tattoo about dreams. But no one ever stops to ask what it really means, they just see "live", "dream", and are like "Wow! Cool! Must be super deep!" and get carried away in their own cliched assumptions around the words and their meanings. But in fact, it's probably nothing like that, in fact, it may be quite sadly terrifying. And it all started with a night at the casino with my grandparents. It was a common occurrence, it was still the late 90's, and people could afford to go gamble a hundred ra