Last week, my instagram friend @rjgutierrez_pogi sent us a message asking for book donation for their library project in Romblon. To give you a brief background, Rj lives in Cobrador, a serenely beautiful island you will see in my future post. This remote place is part of Romblon, Romblon. Today, in celebration of National Teachers Day, I received this good news.
In celebration of the National Teachers
Day:
Globe launches free eLibrary to benefit
over 15M public school students nationwide
Over a thousand educational e-books
appropriate for K-12 learning will be made available to over 15 million public
elementary and high school students and some 500,000 public school teachers
nationwide beginning September 30 as part of the Global Filipino
School (GFS) program of leading telecommunications company Globe Telecom.
The GFS Library launch coincides with the
National Teachers Day celebration of the Department of Education (DepEd) at
Ateneo de Manila University in Davao City where Globe is one of the
participants.
“With the expansion of the Global Filipino
Schools Program and awareness of the GFS Library around the country, public
schools can more effectively make use of reading resources and promote digital
learning to more students and teachers nationwide, particularly in schools
where access to quality books is limited and usage of technology for learning
is not maximized,” said Fernando Esguerra, Globe Director for Citizenship.
GFSLibrary.com is a web-based platform that
provides free and quick access to digital story books for children and young
adults as well as textbooks on core subjects such as Math, Science, English,
Filipino, Music, Arts, among others. The ebooks may be opened via their
desktop, laptop or mobile device using any basic ebook reader.
The website is a component of the GFS
program, a long-term Globe educational initiative that seeks to transform
public schools into centers of Information and Communications Technology
excellence and innovative teaching methods in order to set the stage for 21st Century
Learning.
At the same time, Globe announces its partnership with schools in three Davao
schools which will carry the GFS program. They are Catalunan Paqueno
National High School in Davao City, Davao del Sur; Carmen National High School
in Carmen, Davao del Norte; and Matti National High School in Digos City, Davao
del Sur. This is in line with Globe Telecom’s ongoing activity to expand GFS to
all 221 school divisions of the Department of Education (DepEd) nationwide
within a five-year period.
Under GFS, schools are provided with
unparalleled online connectivity to give homeroom teachers access to limitless
teaching and learning engagements available on the internet that will help
further improve their craft and make learning fun and interesting for the
students.
The schools are also given a Globe Digital
Laboratory package containing netbooks/tablets, wifi devices, and a mobile cart
with a built-in projector screen and workstation while teachers are trained on
ICT education and project-based learning through the GFS Master Teachers
Workshop and Online Coaching Course.
All schools under GFS are intended to become
teacher training hubs and training partners of the DepEd Division Offices in
conducting teaching workshops for neighboring schools of each division.
The workshops include lessons on Digital Thumbprint Program cyberwellness
advocacy. DTP offers three exciting modules designed to increase students’
knowledge of digital citizenship and cyber safety by taking a critical look at
their online behavior and helping them develop insights into the influences of
the online world and the choices they are making.
Likewise, teachers in select schools are also trained in science through Globe
and Mind Museum’s Science Wonder Workshop that is guaranteed to make classroom
learning more fun, interactive, and interesting. The one-day workshop
emphasizes the essential role of student participation, especially through
experiments in teaching science. The teachers get a chance to practice doing
hands-on science demonstrations which can be performed with readily available
materials.
The activities are aided by The Mind Museum
mobile app which contains guides to all experiments in the workshop as well as
daily cool science thoughts to encourage curiosity. The app, which is
open to all education technology platform, also gives teachers, students, and
anyone interested in learning, access to over 250 museum exhibits anytime and
anywhere. It deals with a wide array of topics and questions especially
relevant to those who do not have the time, means, or opportunity to visit the
museum. It is the first educational museum app in the country and
promises a rich multimedia experience to anyone who downloads it.
THANK YOU GLOBE!=)
