2nd Digital Education Conference Teaching and Learning with Technology in the K to 12 Curriculum held at PNU, sponsored by Vibal Publishing in partnership with Apple, Microsoft, and Samsung.

2nd Digital Education Conference Teaching and Learning with Technology in the K to 12 Curriculum held at PNU, sponsored by Vibal Publishing in partnership with Apple, Microsoft, and Samsung. I remember this speaker in one of the seminars I attended in De La Salle University Dasmarinas, a Filipino citizen who became a Principal of a middle school somewhere in the States, he was discussing everything about K to 12 and how it was done in the States, like use of e-books, 1:1 ratio of laptop for every student, free lunch and snack, free school bus and the only thing the student has to do is go to school, because everything is free and paid by the government, that seminar was in 2012, K to 12 then was the topic of discussion in all graduate classes because by then it has not yet been approved and was still in the process of approval in the Senate. The curriculum was seen as beyond imagination by many because obviously, its gonna take a lot of money . Last week, K to 12 was finally signed by the President . Known as the RA 10533. Im lucky to be chosen by the Division Superintendent, Maam Elpi Bergado to attend the 2nd Digital Education Conference Teaching and Learning with Technology in the K to 12 Curriculum held at PNU, sponsored by Vibal Publishing in partnership with Apple, Microsoft, and Samsung. It was so surprising to know that mLearning, that’ s mobile learning, has already been adapted here in the Phillipines , and of course, private schools DLS Zobel and Greenhills are the pioneering schools. What is mLearning? I could not figure out exactly what the speaker in 2012 was trying to describe about K to 12 until I attended this seminar. mLearning in laymen’s term is maximizing the use of technology in education so that learning can happen anytime, anywhere. Android, atom, windows 8 mobile, your phone to google glass via blue tooth. These are the latest in mobile technology that education should take advantage of. SEAMEO INNOTECH ICT Specialist pointed out that 11 member countries are into mobile learning, Thailand has this project of 1tab/child, Indonesia and Malaysia since both are British colonies are into mlearning the way UK is doing it. In the Philippines, Text 2teach in 2003 was lauched, there were schools recepients of Nokia 3315, where they can download videos and other materials and view on tv screens offline. ENSCIEMA was also mentioned, 100 samsung galaxy tabs were given to some schools by Australia to be used by eng scie and math subjects. Vsmart of Vibal was introduced. It’s a total package of e-books with apps to run the program in an android or Samsung tab( using windows 8). How does it done? How does it run? How do they manage? Of course, there’s this installation of some kind of bunch of wirings for the internet, wi-fi connection and so on. The printed books are changed to e-books, the e- books are stored in your tab or android and can be accessed through the interne/wi-fi. The program will run with the use of some apps, student has to bring his tab/android in class, while seated on their own chairs, looking at the screen of their tab, student and teacher who is also looking at the tab can inter-act in class. The e-books contains inter-active activities, checks test automatically and automatically transmit the scores to the records of the teacher in her own tab. Of course there are other programs that can be used aside from that of vibal. Windows 8 corinth apps can be used by science and social studies teachers using Inter-active keyboard or simply through a tab. Apple Ipad has 300,000 apps and 20,000 apps are specifically for education. The topic that I liked much and I think would help me a lot is the social media in the classroom. Connected learning that promotes collaboration,production, experimentation .Use of fb, twitter, wikis and blogs for inter-active teaching, also the sites they gave that teachers can visit for more training and keep us adept to technology. apology for any grammar mistake di na na edit, also mga kulang na data, next time pag may time uli ako.