Are UPLB Students Ready For Online Learning? No, UPLB Teachers Are Not Ready For Online Teaching!
Here is the UPLB Institute of Statistics Research announcement, Facebook 2020:
August 14
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How ready are UPLB students for online learning? What learning devices do they have? Are they familiar with various learning management systems? These are the questions we always ask recently. Let this research speak.
The results will help the UPLB community face the battlefield in the first semester. Faculty members need to know the situation of the learners for them to create the most suitable course packs. The administration needs to work to strengthen the shaky foundation. Read on and decide for yourself.
This study reveals the facts, the way to go is up to us.
(This Editor says there are 2 grammatical errors up there; the sentences should read thus:
“These are the questions we asked recently.”
“Let the research results speak.”)
The problem no one is asking is this:
“Where are the Teachers at the University of the Philippines Los BaΓ±os?”
You think you know? You are wrong!
This is a UP Los BaΓ±os Teacherspeaking. I graduated with a BSA major in Agricultural Education in 1965 – I passed the very first Teacher’s Exam, given in 1964 (yes, the year before graduation), with a grade of 80.6%, Civil Service Professional Level. No review classes, no review books.
So, I have been a Teacher for almost 60 years, and I have been in and around UP Los BaΓ±os since then – and I can tell you:
There are no more Teachers at UPLB!
There are only Instructors & Lecturers!
Teachers study to teach; Instructors & Lecturers memorize their subject, that’s all. I Teacher taught myself digital skills; those Instructors & Lecturers cannot teach themselves teaching with their skills!
The above Institute of Statistics Research survey is all-wrong – it begins on the wrong foot! It should not be a survey of the learning readiness of students but of the teaching readiness of the teachers! And that would have required an honest-to-goodness teacher as adviser for the research study.
Everyday, a teacher would have a lesson and a lesson plan – whether written or not. For instance, if the lesson were on the un/desirability of collecting & preserving insects for the Entom 1 class, today the teacher’s online presentation would be awesome because it can telescope time and show everyone what happens if they continued collecting insects for class submission.
No Sir, it has nothingto do with “Optimizing online learning platforms” – it has everything to do with optimizing online learning, period.
No Sir, the priority is notfor students to “Learn tips and best strategies for online learning” – the priority is for the teacher to learntips and best strategies for online teaching.
And no Sir, the priority is not for “Effective online presentation skills for students” but “Effective online presentation skills for the teachers!”
Please do not reverse the rules:
If there is no teaching, there is no learning!
This is a Professional Teacher speaking.@517
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