I just read an Inquirer.Net article on how ICT is being integrated in the UP College of Education courses. On another site, I read about the bleak future of Philippine education.

If what was reported about UP’s College of Education is an indication of progress, then I am really worried considering that it is a decade late, imho. I think the professors have missed this boat – their students are already using these tools, e.g., mailing lists, online fora, instant messaging, etc., and it is only now that they are catching up. What is even more concerning is that the professors seem to have been left in the early 90s! They’re in Web 1.0 when everyone is already in Web 2.0, so to speak.
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I am really wondering why today’s Computer Science students fear Mathematics when Mathematics is the basis of Computer Science! Careful but informal investigations reveal the problem goes way back to secondary and even primary education. Unfortunately, this is not unique to the Philippines as attested by the video above – even in the US, the textbooks they are using are inferior to the ones used 10, 20, 30 or more years ago!
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