REPORTERS:ALEMAN, MARJORIE M.

ALIVIO, MARIA KATRINA GABRIEL

THE GLOBAL CURRICULUM

Teachers and students exploring the educational possibilities are termed “internauts” trailblazers on this new educational frontier not limited by distance or national boundaries.

What are some of the options

open to today’s internauts?

The global village created by the internet is real, but the content of it’s curriculum is still being shaped.

Educators investigating a world-based curriculum call their work global education.

What do they say about the

use of computers in education?

Computers in education enable us to:

Teach more effectively.

Reach and teach more students

Make the

world our

classroom

Get ready for the future.

Turn latchkey kids into

connected kids.

Computers disable us because:

Effective teaching all but disappears.

The digital world remains divided.

Students risk becoming antisocial.

Computers are a health risk

Fundamental skills are sidelined.

How will the predicted changes affect education

and schooling in the future?

Education is a complex, social, cultural, and political

phenomenon.

While it is relatively simple to predict that present technological trends will one day result in a computer capable of responding to human vocal commands, it is far less how, if at all, such development may impact the educational enterprise

Lewis PerelmanSchool’s Out (1992)

there is a strong case of education transformation. argued that knowledge acquisition is no longer something that happens only in school; now it occurs everywhere and is lifelong.

Some of the possible

outcomes of the process of

change:

*Multimedia learning resources available via information networks, will proliferate and become an essential feature of education.* Learners and teachers alike will have access to powerful potable computing devices that will be wirelessly connected to network resources.

*Learning increasingly will take place in authentic contexts and focus on authentic tasks.* Students will become active learners, collaborating with one another and with more experienced members of society, to seek out information and gain knowledge.

*Teacher’s roles will tend to shift from the “ sage to stage” to the “ guide on the side”.* Education will become a lifelong process, important and accessible to all, and schools will become centers of learning –not just for children, but for all members of community.

*The artificial divisions of grade levels will disappear.* The boundaries separating schools from each other and the community will blur and disappear.

EDUCATION AND INDUSTRY

*“Jobs and skills should match”* One of the deterrents in finding a job is the mismatch of skills possessed by the graduates and the requirements of the job.

*President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, issued an executive order creating a new path called the ladderized system of education and training, converging the TVET system of Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) and the higher education programs of the Commission on Higher Education.

*THE BASIC FEATURES OF

(TESDA)* Students and trainees acquire

technical and vocational skills from TESDA registered programs in schools and training centers,

public and private.

*When they decide later to continue their studies to earn a college degree, the TVET training they have completed will be credited in the college course they will take.

* After the training, the graduates apply for jobs and get employed.

*One of the outstanding features of the ladderized system is the portability of credits earned in a TESDA registered program to a college course recognized by CHED. Similarly, the college graduates who will enroll in a related TVET program will earn he equivalent credits.