Restructuring Philippine Education

Modernization has been quite a rage in our government’s initiatives in revitalizing the education system. Numerous plans and objectives had been laid out to achieve such ideals. But at the end of the day, there comes the problem of implementation.
It is only but fair to reason that the use of ICT in practice in local schools is not widely implemented since it is quite apparent that there is a lack of resources to provide all students and teachers such access to ICT facilities.

So what do we do?

I earnestly believe that the key to success lies in the partial abandonment of the present form of teaching and therefore increasing our reliance on ICTs to achieve the desired results. For example, the development of interactive educational software may be used to replace textbooks in the entire Philippines. Such would significantly reduce costs and said resources can be channeled to the procurement of more computers for the students to use.

Most importantly, it would provide the Filipino students an opportunity to be equipped with level of computer literacy required in the global market. It is a drastic measure which needs to be considered by the government.