A positive ideology behind a language is important for its life and survival. When this positive ideology is communicated, the love, passion and sense of ownership are deepened, especially among young people.
Researchers who studied reverse language shift say positive ideology and positive beliefs associated with speaking the language together with a strong cultural support are the two factors that most influence positive language growth among youth.
Children can be encouraged to learn foreign languages even without being told their mother languages are not good enough. This way they will keep their love towards their mother languages and will not feel shameful to use them.
While traditional visual artists have so much value in the work done, the social media art appreciation is being taken over by the AI artists who invest nothing in their designs, and have no emotional connection with such art works. Traditional visual artists deserve more admiration and support than the AI artists who are not personally involved in the production of the artworks.
This article was published in The Citizen Newspaper, Tanzania on February 11, 2025 Shimbo Pastory It is common today to see in social media, picture and video content involving parents or caregivers and their children. There are varieties of this content, on one end having normal conversations, surreptitious/secret recordings, staged funny skits, pranks, etc. to mention a few. ‘Sharenting’ is a new word, technically called a portmanteau (formed by blending the sounds and combining meanings of two words), which has been made for this social phenomenon, being itself a combination of “sharing” and “parenting.” Languages all over the world have…
This article was published in The Citizen Newspaper, Tanzania on October 31, 2024 Shimbo Pastory Citizen journalism is oftentimes a frowned upon reality in most countries where those in power and leadership are insecure with about their responsibilities and how they carry them out. Citizen journalists in such cases are endangered just like the regular career journalists. However, encouraging citizen journalism, with guidelines of course, streamlines the quality of public service practice to further near perfection of the expected standards of service delivery. By guidelines here we are talking about rules and laws protecting both the citizen journalist, or whistleblower,…
As artificial intelligence can aggregate knowledge so well, it is a free opportunity for young people to test the waters in the fields of their aspiration, which they either did not have a chance to explore at all, or did not learn so well in school. AI allows a fair share of this knowledge for free, guaranteeing a transformation of digital literacy and general knowledge of the people after a while, if consistently used and engaged in actual life.
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It is time our education system incorporates some wonderful technological tools that foster student – teacher learning engagement in exciting ways. But this will be really hard to reach if our system remains rigidly tied to heavily demanding curricula and grades as markers of successful teaching and learning. Education is beyond grades!
There should be a way of gathering these philosophical ideas by our leaders, whether formally or informally presented, as they are indicative of where we are going as a nation, and probably, the dangerous leaders we should not have. Nation-building is more than corporate management; having a philosophy unites the purpose and refines assignment of priorities for the good of all.
Shimbo Pastory Globally the world animal day is marked on October 4 each year as a social education initiative to help treat animals better. There is no doubt regarding an assumed supremacy of the human person, supported by holy books, which renders nature, including animals at the human person’s merciless and ruthless greed. While use of what nature provides for sustenance, is perfectly fine and natural, indiscriminate and careless treatment of other living things is an unprecedented response for human persons endowed (by the Creator) with capacity for reason and thought. Different societies regard animals differently, in that some societies…
