Today, Saturday, 14 March 2020, on Facebook I read the UP
Los Baños, UPLB, memo from the Chancellor’s Office that starting Monday, 16
March, UPLB, including UP Rural High School, will be shifting to online
classes. Citing Corollary Community Coronavirus Clampdown Concerning Close Contact
Communication.
Online teaching? Ah, UP, teach yourself first! (Other SCUs likewise.)
This
teacher’s prediction:
The Coronavirus Curse is forever changing
the educational scene, thank God!
The Coronavirus Curse is forever changing
the educational scene, thank God!
Where is UP now? I am very disappointed with what I see. Above
images: Moon shot by me 08 March 2020, 10 PM: moving target. Lower image from UPLB[1] –
Walang
kabuhay-buhay! Still life.
UPLB, your community is only inside the campus?
In this Digital Age? My alma mater UPLB, and the whole UP
System:
Actually,
the whole PH educational system is not
prepared to go digital!
Why? Simple – It has not
been teaching itself digitally. In UP, teachers and students have been
preoccupied with protesting, nationalism – not
learning to learn.
Digital
is the ultimate lesson!
But you have to learn how it can teach you.
But you have to learn how it can teach you.
Ask me. I became digital on Innocents’ Day 35 years ago! Not bragging: I could do a
one-night-stand all-digital lecture-demo at UP Diliman Sunken Gardens if they ask
me, frankahilario@gmail.com.
Nonetheless, what I’m most interested in as a teacher are neither
materials nor manners of presentation.
I’m
most interested in the process of
learning.
I started teaching myself digital when I was already 45
years old – the process of learning is crux.
Remember, Teacher, when going digital, you don’t have the
class-roomed attention of your students – remember, they all have cellphones!
So,
Teacher, you should be Challenging Learners to Think!
Think Critical thinking,
and think Creative thinking. Critical
is logical, so you have to follow rules – sequential, numerical, alphabetical,
chronological, whatever. Creative is illogical – out of the blue, “a happy
thing happening when you’re not looking for it,” intuition, “a little bird told
me.” Think. And think again. (I can teach you both.)
There is no excuse for not going digital, especially if you
are from UP, the National University of the Philippines. I am UP ’65 with a BSA
in Ag Education. I must be a good teacher because I taught myself personal
computing. Today, at 79 I blog everyday, thank God; from 2007, I have blogged
some 6,000 essays, 7 million words plus.
How to be intelligent about it? Be original: Like, reverse roles – it should be fun –
students ask questions to test teacher! Now, teacher will really have to study.
Students will study even more because they want to ask the hardest question(s)
– and what happens? You have already taught them even before you meet in your
class online!
The
secret of teaching is learning –
the best way to learn is to teach digital,
with some words, plenty of images.
This is a Facebook hound speaking!
the best way to learn is to teach digital,
with some words, plenty of images.
This is a Facebook hound speaking!
When the learner studies to teach, he learns best. Not only
that – he enjoys doing it!
Where
did you learn all that? From this teacher
who has been ambidextrously digital since 1985.@517
who has been ambidextrously digital since 1985.@517
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