Pasig Mayor Vico Sotto (left of image) and City Congressman Roman Romulo who is chair of the City Committee on Basic Education, want to digitize K-12 education in Pasig.
Learning from the lockdown/pandemic, Mayor Sotto has officially announced that about 140,000 personal computers, PCs, will be distributed to students from Kinder to Senior High School (tablets) and to teachers (laptops). This is the latest from Sakto News written by Haya Benitez[1]; original in Tagalog; from which I’m translating freely.
Mayor Sotto is dead serious about this. And so is City Congressman Romulo (right of image), who says Pasig is now allocating P1 billion for the digitization project.
Aside from the digital gadgets, Mayor Sotto says his administration is now readying the setting up of Internet connections in all the city barangays for August 24.
City Counselor Corazon Raymundo, chair of the Committee on Education, says the Department of Education, DepEd, will be preparing the teaching modules for different subjects such as the worksheets and assignments.
Lady & gentlemen, all of that has given me a revolutionary idea; I hereby propose that:
Du30 commands all PH government
offices to go digital in operations!
offices to go digital in operations!
Slowly but surely. Digital is extremely flexible – if the one handling it is extremely flexible in thinking. Flexible thinking here means able to shift from critical thinking to creative thinking at a moment’s notice.
Steve Jobs essentially invented the personal computer, PC, as we know it; then he invented the iPhone, and the digital industry has never been the same again (image from DigitalTonto[2]). Revolution!
You will now excuse me if I shift my focus to only the Department of Agriculture, DA, because I am the son of a farmer, an agriculturist, and a science writer.
I want all kinds of education, extension, immersion, learning, training, to occur digitally, whether basic, advanced, theoretical, or philosophical. If you can see, hear, or imagine it, it can be digitized!
So, what’s the difference between digitization of Education and digitization of Agriculture? Absolutely none!
Now, with digitization, it is time to correct the wrong notion of learning. What should be taught at any level is not what is there to learn but how to learn what one does not know, or has forgotten!
If education goes digital, can we sustain it? Oh yes, it’s many times cheaper than classroom education!
Oh yes, digital we can go from Agriculture to Zoology, from Arts to Zinnias, from Arroz caldo to Za (slang for pizza[3]).
For Agriculture, Super Coops will be completely digitized to handle all Farm Management services for all farmer members, from Cultivation to Commercialization of food products, including exports. With digitization, government and private interests will help fund the Super Coops and manage resources and equipment necessary for farm operations, from planting to harvesting to marketing. Digitization of Super Coops will help supply farmer members with technologies & systems. With pre-arranged market-to-consumer arrangements, digitization will cancel out middlemen and farmers can escape poverty once and for all!
Smart Education? Smart Agriculture!@517
[1]https://saktonews.com/news/140000-estudyante-sa-pasig-bibigyan-ng-tablet-kapag-online-ang-klase-sa-agosto-
[2]https://www.digitaltonto.com/2019/the-digital-revolution-is-ending-heres-what-you-need-to-do-now/
[3]https://www.thefreedictionary.com/za
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