After spearheading a donation drive for pre-loved gadgets such as laptops and tablets to help teachers and students, Vice President Leni Robredo makes a call to creatives to make instructional materials as schools adopt distance learning.
“After meeting and consulting with teachers and education experts, our office has also decided to produce videos to help teachers and parents in the transition towards distance/blended learning,” she wrote in a Facebook post.
These instructional videos will hopefully help teachers and parents in educating students as schools shift to new learning platforms. Additionally, the Office of the Vice President also hopes that instructional videos will make distance learning feel “less intimidating” and gauge more interest from students.
With the aim of finishing these learning materials before the school year starts this August, Robredo appealed to production houses and creatives who would like to volunteer their talents for the project.
Those interested may call 0998-5968820 or e-mail ovpdistancelearning@gmail.com with the subject [Distance Learning Instructional Videos].
Due to the continuing pandemic, face-to-face classes have been put on hold. As a solution, the distance learning approach—where television, radio and the internet are used as media of instruction—will be observed.
Concerns about the accessibility of materials and internet connection for both teachers and students, especially in far-flung areas, have been raised as preparations for this new system commenced.
[READ: Can TV-radios be the new classroom? DepEd to broadcast modules for blended learning, says Gatchalian]
According to President Rodrigo Duterte, they are looking into providing radios to areas with no electricity and internet access. Meanwhile, various local government units, such as Manila, Pasig and Parañaque, are allocating budgets for providing public schools with gadgets.
Screengrab from Vice President Leni Robredo’s Facebook page/Retrieved from Inquirer.net
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