Sotto, Moreno, Robredo, Du30 & Briones Think Alike In Education – They All Need Education!

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Surprised? This is a UP teacher alumnus speaking, self-taught digitally.

Above is a Facebook sharing by Nica Frencillo:

Pasig City prepares P1.2B for educational tablets, laptops (Daily Tribune)

Manila to spend P994M for tablets, laptops, data connection for students, teachers (GMA News Online)

Robredo office seeks gadget donations for online learning (ABS-CBN News)

Gov’t considers radios for alternative learning of poor students in far-flung areas (Manila Bulletin)

So, Mayor Vico Sotto of Pasig City and Mayor Isko Moreno of Manila are buying laptops for their students and teachers; and Vice President Leni Robredo is seeking donations for online learning – and President Rodrigo Duterte looks dejected that PH can only buy transistor radios for the remote students.

Si Duterte ba ay napag-iwanan ng panahon? Has Duterte been left behind the times? No! Actually, he is thinking exactly like Mayor Sotto, Mayor Moreno, Vice President Robredo – and the head of the Department of Education, DepEd, Leonor Magtolis Briones; they all think:

That education is simply Show & Tell – Who, What, Where, When, and Why to Think – not How to Think.

Even with all those free tablets and laptops, education is spoon-feeding: You, the student, this is good food for you, bite it well, swallow it, and remember the rest of your life.

The student is not allowed, not encouraged to think for oneself, because the teacher was not trained to teach like that!

Ms Briones and all those teachers do not know what they’re missing because they were all trained simply to follow instructions.

All schools from K to 12 to college would be exciting if the DepEd adopted and implemented Multiple Intelligences, MI, as the way to develop the learners into their best selves.

Instead, Ms Briones is thinking of “classic long-time approaches” to learning like free TV and radio programs. That is not learning, Madam – only filling empty vessels with what you think are important. You are treating the students like robots, just thinking exactly like they have been programmed to think. The teachers are teaching students not how to learn, not how to find out answers for themselves, not how to think for themselves.

In contrast, MI is the 37-year old educational theory of Harvard psychology professor Howard Gardner who posits that there are 9 intelligences in each of us:

(1) bodily-kinesthetic – body smart,
(2) existential – world smart,
(3) interpersonal – inner person smart,
(4) intrapersonal – people smart,
(5) linguistic – language smart,
(6) logical-mathematical – reasoning smart,
(7) musical-rhythmic – harmony smart,
(8) naturalistic – Nature smart,
(9) visual-spatial – relationship smart.

Just the listing and it gets exciting, right? Right!

We all have 9 intelligences, but our core genius may lie in only 1 of the intelligences – it is the job of the teacher to help the student find that single genius and nourish it.

If you applied the theory with each student, suddenly learning would become a much welcome activity! Why?

Because suddenly the student becomes a discoverer – s/he is going to discover himself/herself, where s/he is good at. If not, gadgets are only distractions!@517


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