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.
What I find baffling is this - in the same university, we have the Diliman Interactive Learning Center led by UP College of Education Professor Celia T. Adriano, Ph.D.. DILC has been giving teacher training in technology in education for several years already and I don’t know why the other UP College of Education professors are only adopting technology now.
If this is progress according to their standards, then no wonder the UN Millenium Development Goals (MDG) will not be met!
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April 15, 2008 at 8:53 pm
I’m glad to know that the USA is not the only place slow to train teachers about the amazing changes in technology and education.
May 3, 2008 at 8:07 am
Education is also business, therefore lot’s of private schools are integrating a computer subject in all levels in fact I still remember playing a computer game of cat and dogs during kindergarten. I believe computer learning was already there but only to a privilege few.
The only differences now probably is that the cost of owning a computer is less plus the demand of it’s use is growing high as school load gets harder and…of course I shouldn’t forget the types of digital entertainment that have leveled up as well like games, internet, etc. Therefore few has turned to many.
The Inquirer article is nothing but a sorry excuse for a lazy unimaginative writer who can of think of nothing more to write therefore try to sensationalize an information which only caused to show not a news to be happy about but more of a problem to be concerned with.