Inadequate internet services will no longer be a concern for students living in far flung areas of North Cotabato when the classes open in October this year.
Vice Governor Emmylou Taliño-Mendoza of North Cotabato, together with the members of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan of Cotabato, will be distributing 3,000 units of transistor radio sets for free to the municipalities of the province.
These transistor radios will be distributed to the students in North Cotabato as learning modality for the school year 2020-2021.
To avoid face-to-face interactions, DepEd offers blended and distance learning modalities by using printed or digital modules, online learning resources and radio and TV-based interactions.
“While online learning depends on the internet speed of Telcos, transistor radios would be more reliable for the consistent interaction of teachers and students,” Mendoza said through Viber.
Mendoza added that the use of transistor radio will minimize exposure of teachers to the virus.
“Students in far flung areas katong dili maabot sa signal sa internet will be prioritized in the distribution of radios,” she said.
The radio transistors were requested by the City Division Superintendent Omar Obas of Department of Education (DepEd)-Kidapawan City as they will introduce four level of modalities when the classes open: online, radio, face-to-face, and modular.
DepEd has emphasized that in the opening of classes it is not necessary to do the traditional face-to-face learning in the classroom, yet, the physical opening will depend on the risk severity grading or classification of a certain community pursuant to the guidelines from the Department of Health (DOH), and the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases.
DepEd has introduced learning delivery modalities that schools can adopt either one or a combination of the following: traditional face-to-face learning, distance learning, modular distance learning, online distance learning, blended learning, and homeschooling.
