How Does Text2Teach Help Improve the Quality Education in the Philippines
How does Text2Teach help improve the quality of Basic Education in the Philippines?
Introduction:
The text2teach program was adopted the idea from Brazil, where a department of the state of health ministry called the Health Vigilance Foundation (FVS) started monitoring the spread of Dengue Fever.
They develop the Nokia Data Gathering (NDG) to conduct household surveys, interviews in local populations and monitor stagnant water, which would help the foundation staff understand mosquito breeding patterns. The survey or questionnaires on the NDG server send to the mobile phones in the field where the data can be easily captured. The data they gathered was sent back to the server, where the information can be analyzed, mapped or exported. The benefits are manifolds. It makes gathering data in even the most remote areas quicker, more accurate and more cost-effective.
That’s why the idea conceived through BridgeIT to promote equality of education even to far flung schools and communities in the country. The BridgeIT in the Philippines was conceptualized in 2003 by Nokia, Pearson, the International Youth Foundation (IYF) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The country was chosen as one of the pilot areas because as Philippines has been acclaimed as the text capital of the world (Catangay, 2011).
Over the years using mobile phones during school hours were strictly banned in a way the students will not be distracted but now many public school teachers are using the ubiquitous gadgets in class to serve the higher purpose of bringing to life: Math, Science and English subjects. This project aims to present interactive, multimedia educational videos that enhance the learning experience of students inside the classroom (Lapus, 2009). With the text2teach program the remotest communities would be benefited and improve the performance of students (Gonzales, 2010).
Furthermore, this program seeks to improve the quality of teaching in Grade 5 and 6 in
Introduction:
The text2teach program was adopted the idea from Brazil, where a department of the state of health ministry called the Health Vigilance Foundation (FVS) started monitoring the spread of Dengue Fever.
They develop the Nokia Data Gathering (NDG) to conduct household surveys, interviews in local populations and monitor stagnant water, which would help the foundation staff understand mosquito breeding patterns. The survey or questionnaires on the NDG server send to the mobile phones in the field where the data can be easily captured. The data they gathered was sent back to the server, where the information can be analyzed, mapped or exported. The benefits are manifolds. It makes gathering data in even the most remote areas quicker, more accurate and more cost-effective.
That’s why the idea conceived through BridgeIT to promote equality of education even to far flung schools and communities in the country. The BridgeIT in the Philippines was conceptualized in 2003 by Nokia, Pearson, the International Youth Foundation (IYF) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The country was chosen as one of the pilot areas because as Philippines has been acclaimed as the text capital of the world (Catangay, 2011).
Over the years using mobile phones during school hours were strictly banned in a way the students will not be distracted but now many public school teachers are using the ubiquitous gadgets in class to serve the higher purpose of bringing to life: Math, Science and English subjects. This project aims to present interactive, multimedia educational videos that enhance the learning experience of students inside the classroom (Lapus, 2009). With the text2teach program the remotest communities would be benefited and improve the performance of students (Gonzales, 2010).
Furthermore, this program seeks to improve the quality of teaching in Grade 5 and 6 in