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Relate Mo, Ma'am? Sir? Meet Teacher Aida . For the past 35 years, she taught her lessons using MP3— Manila Paper . Later, she upgraded to MP4— Manual Projector . Then came COVID-19, and she found herself compelled to present lessons through Video MPEG-4 , or at the very least, through digital platforms she had never imagined using in her early years as an educator. Teacher Aida's eyesight has grown blurry with age and illness. Her fingers, wrinkled and stiff, can hardly tap the correct keys on her cellphone or laptop. Arthritis has made it difficult for her to grasp a computer mouse. Long hours spent preparing worksheets and slide presentations leave her back and neck aching, while her tired eyes struggle to endure the glare of computer screens. On the brink of resignation, she presses on. With mouths to feed and children to send to school, she chooses to continue teaching and, in the process, learns new skills to keep abreast of the changing demands of her profession. Meet Tea...

In a briefing on school opening made by Region 2 DepEd Regional Director, Estela L. Cariño, on August 19,2020, she said “We might do away of giving honors or ranks as well as numerical grades to students while we are implementing distance learning”.   With the pandemic, learning will take off on different modalities, and varied platforms. Such transition and drastic adjustments could create discrimination among learners, so it is just imperative to deviate from the normal grading system and the giving of honors or ranks be cancelled for the time being. The uncertainty of employment, the economic collapse, misery brought by infection or death caused by the virus and the subsequent effects on the family can crisscross the minds of learners, thus, making them out of focus. The adaptability of learners to the new learning platform; the absence of learning facilitators in the homes can affect the pace of learning, considering that not all learners have the same level of intelligenc...

O mo, omo ! Sesange ,  CLOY in UP? In 2014, I attended a Regional Seminar and was privileged to speak in behalf of the group I was in.  I started my speech with " annyeonghaseyo ", and I saw smiles and giggles among the younger participants, while I heard " what did she say ?" among the not-so-young attendees.  From then, I got the feel, that I am among the many bewitched with Kdrama. The year 2003, Kdrama or Knovela started airing in Philippine tubes.  The two Philippine television giants, ABS-CBN tagged as the First and True Home of Asian novelas  and GMA, The Heart of Asia , had been competing on getting the shipment of hit Korean dramas. Bright Girl, Descendants of the Sun and My Sassy Girl are among the Kdramas that captivated the Filipino nation’s heart. Almost twenty Filipino adaptations of Kdramas were shown in Philippine televisions. Among them are “ My Girl ” starred by Gerald Anderson and Kim Chiu shown in ABS-CBN in 2008 and the most recent and ...

We get accustomed to be in a classroom with chatty and boisterous students.  We enjoy the lively discussions, sometimes, resulting to fights.  Students get used to teachers’ “sermon” which has oftentimes become the subject in class reunions.  Students have learned to read  teachers’ facial expressions and have learned the cue of approval or disapproval. Students came to love the pat on the shoulder which teachers oftentimes do as recognition of a job well done or a sign of assurance that he/she is there in time of need. Surely, these things were  not  experienced during the Covid pandemic days. What the students got  used  is seeing a teacher via the internet, the television or any other platform of learning delivery.  There was  no other choice, if one insist ed going to school at a time of the pandemic. In an interview I had with a college student who was  on e-learning , for no other choice because of the lockdown, she said that ...