IT, ECE teachers learn the basics of Android

INFORMATION Technology (IT) and Electronics and Communications Engineering (ECE) teachers learned the basics of Android technology to enable them to teach Android applications development as an elective.

The Android Developer Training was held nationwide for 170 teachers from partner schools of Smart’s Wireless Engineering Education Program (Sweep) and Applied Developers Intro School (Adis).

Teachers from Adis schools were updated on the concepts of Adis, an elective required for newly hired employees of Smart.

The instructors participated in discussions on how to reinvent Adis to expose students to the actual application of IT technologies.

Meanwhile, partner schools under the Smart Schools Program (SSP) benefited from separate trainings on the use of ICT in teaching and in putting up a school website.

The ICT integration training taught teachers and ICT coordinators from 29 public schools how to incorporate ICT technology and tools in classroom teaching.

In the DPSA Training, teachers from the 39 public schools and some incoming grades 5 and 6 pupils were educated in local content generation and online journalism and on how to develop a website for their school.

The training is part of Doon Po Sa Amin (DPSA), a community service project under SSP.

In Cagayan de Oro City, 800 teachers, 37 principals and eight supervisors were oriented on the Dynamic Learning Program (DLP), a revolutionary way of teaching science and non-science subjects designed by 2010 Ramon Magsaysay awardees Drs. Chris and Marivic Bernido.

Another 70 physics teachers trained in “Learning Physics as One Nation” (LPON), a subject-specific program created by the Bernidos that they patterned after the DLP.