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Why method of learning and teaching needs to change now

Class one pupils from Getembe Primary school in Kisii township follow instruction from their ICT teacher during pilot programme of familiarization exercise with the tablets in 2016. The school which had a population of fifty six pupils in class one received the gadgets adequate and in the ratio of 1:1 with pupil population. The gadgets are expected to sharpen pupils digital skills across the country but challenges have since caught up with the program. (Denish Ochieng/ Standard)

Generation Alpha is here with us. It’s also referred to as the phygital generation, because they do not draw a distinction between the physical and digital world.

They do not know what it is like to live without technology, because they have never had to. Generation Z was mostly born on the periphery of the explosion of technological gadgets.

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