Digitally Reborn – (3) ABS-CBN Helps State Colleges & Universities Offer Non-Degree Courses Aside From Agriculture

I continue to look at ABS-CBN (in denial), in the digital world, where it can make a huge difference.

Worldwide, consider applying for jobs: More companies are now putting more weight on the skill of an applicant rather than the college degree. Ellen Ruppel Shell says, “College May Not Be Worth It Anymore[1]” (16 May 2018, New York Times). And here are “8 Job Skills You Should Have[2]” (Youth Central): (1) Communication, (2) Teamwork, (3) Problem-solving, (4) Initiative and enterprise, (5) Planning and organizing, (6) Self-management, (7) Learning, and (8) Technology. (Above, superimposed, image of 10 skills now being asked for when applying for a job[3], from JVS Toronto)

So, I’m thinking of this giant corporation called ABS-CBN giving assistances, if only digitally, to the many state colleges & universities, SCUs, of the Philippines, in cultivating the skills of the youth in any of the fields in agriculture – without a degree, just simply a certification from any of the SCUs of a certain skill having been acquired within the physical premises of such SCUs. Such as any combination of the following trainings:

(1) Growing a crop;
(2) Raising a native pig;
(3) Processing cacao seeds into chocolate;
(4) Culturing honey bees;
(5) Preparing organic fertilizer;
(6) Business incubation;
(7) Work from home.

Growing a specific crop:
For instance, rice. Thus, we have the so-called System of Rice Intensification, SRI, which is very different from the way we Filipinos have been growing rice. SRI gives much higher yields.

Raising a native pig:
Native pigs are known to be resistant to disease and not picky with food.

Growing & processing cacao into chocolate:
Filipino chocolates are world-class in taste.

Culturing honey bees:
If you live in an open field, you can culture bees for their honey.

Preparing organic fertilizers:
Employing earthworms is only one form.

Business incubation:
This is especially for innovators, or those with new or improved products.

Work from home (WFH):
The trend now is mastery or expertise with applications (PC programs). With adequate assistance from ABS-CBN, SCUs can teach digital skills essential for WFH.

And Multiple Intelligences!

Digital ABS-CBN can assist the SCUs in helping the youth discover and nourish their individual multiple intelligences, MI, as according to Harvard professor Howard Gardner. Here are the 9 Multiple Intelligences:

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

If you pursue multiple intelligences, you will see that there are no stupid or unteachable people – only people who have not discovered, or whom you have not helped discover – their individual intelligence, where they happen to be very good at.

Digital skills rather than degrees. MI could be the start of multiple learning & earning genres, not to mention games, all digital. In any field, including agriculture.

ABS-CBN, you must be learning to be very good at digital. Nobody else is!@517

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[1]https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/16/opinion/college-useful-cost-jobs.html
[2]https://www.youthcentral.vic.gov.au/jobs-and-careers/plan-your-career/8-job-skills-you-should-have
[3]https://www.jvstoronto.org/blog/10-skills-that-employers-are-looking-for-in-2020/