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In a virtual press briefing on Monday, September 21, Education Undersecretary Anne Sevilla said that students might have to share modules by next year because there aren’t enough funds to reproduce learning materials.

News break 12m daus full#

To give you an idea, Senator Ralph Recto, an economist, estimated that 93.6 billion pages of learning modules for millions of public school students will be needed just for one full academic year.

(READ: Briones says modular learning ‘expensive,’ has ‘big effect’ on environment) That would require felling an enormous number of trees to produce paper. (READ: No need to buy gadgets, printed materials will be given – DepEd)Įducation Undersecretary Diosdado San Antonio said that almost 13 million public school students or 59% of roughly 22 million enrollees this year will be using printed modules. (READ: FAST FACTS: DepEd’s distance learning)Īs technology and internet connectivity remain a problem for most students, DepEd will be providing printed module materials for them. To make sure that learning remains unhampered, DepEd will be implementing a distance learning approach – a learning delivery mode where interaction takes place between the teacher and the students who are geographically remote from each other during instruction. This means lessons will be delivered outside the traditional face-to-face setup. (READ: ‘Ill-informed’: DepEd dismisses calls for academic freeze) On October 5, public schools will reopen in the middle of a still untamed coronavirus outbreak in the country that has so far claimed over 5,000 lives and left 4.6 million Filipinos jobless.ĭespite calls to postpone classes until 2021, the Department of Education (DepEd) maintains that education of millions of Filipino students should not wait.