Education Department Uep-Prmc

27/10/2022

Don't trust everything, don't share everything. Not everything that you see online is true. Learn to fact-ckeck.

DROWNING IN FAKE NEWS

Year twenty twenty-two (2022) is the eleventh year of Global Media and Information Literacy Week which will be commemorated from 24 to 31 of October 2022 with the theme "Nurturing trust: a media and information literacy imperative.”

In the rise of modernism, where the advent of technology is present to aid our daily needs, we have totally harnessed its power and used it for greater good in our everyday transactions, small or grand. Among the many splendored things that technology can offer is the access to media platforms. The knowledge, information and education it brings to people is indeed beneficial. It has been a tool for communication and our way to connect to the world around us.

Today, media has been a space for us users to get information in just a click of our fingertips. Yet, as users it is our optimum responsibility to sort out the information we share and read online, hence, as individuals, there is a need for us to be media and information literate for us to broaden our experiences with media and expand our understanding with what we see online.

Moreover, information overload is nothing but a common phenomenon in today’s world. People sometimes gets confused due to the bombardment of the information that comes from various multimedia platforms. The ability and knowledge to grasp if an information is truthful or a falsehood, if it is a fact or an opinion, if it is correct or erroneous becomes an ability that very few possess.

Fake news must be seen as a pressing concern that needs to be addressed by the government, especially the ministries of education. The weaponization of social media and the lack of critical thinking strikes a massive and strong blow on the level of media and information literacy of the Filipino people.

Hence, one way of being media and information literate is to do fact-checking. In this way, netizens can be able to save themselves from drowning in the deliberate, misleading, and biased fake news that has been weaponized for the sake of political propaganda.

We nurture trust as a media and information literacy imperative by not trusting everything that we see online. Evidently, media empowers people in so many ways, and as users, it is our mere obligation to ensure that we are using media for good.



UNESCO

13/10/2022

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“IDDRR: Early Warning Systems and its Roles on Preemptive Evacuation”

Today, the world marks October 13 as the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction (IDDRR) with the theme “Substantially increase the availability of and access to multi-hazard early warning systems and disaster risk information and assessments to people by 2030.” The IDDRR, as first established in 2002, is an opportunity to acknowledge the progress being made toward preventing and reducing disaster risk and losses in lives, livelihoods, economies and basic infrastructure in line with the international agreement for reducing global disaster risk and losses.

Recently, Super typhoon Karding with an international name of Noru lashed through Northern Philippines from September 24-26, 2022. It was one of the more-than-20 typhoons that would visit the country every year. But one of the most disheartening and heartbreaking accounts that has happened during this super typhoon is the death of five rescuers who drowned in San Miguel town in Bulacan province after their boat overturned when it was hit by a collapsed wall, tossing them into rampaging floodwaters, police and officials said.

With this, The Consignor brings this year the role that early warning systems play in the evacuation of the members of our communities. It is the rescuers who put their lives for other people’s safety. The technologies and mechanism help rescuers and rescue volunteers to communicate the appropriate and timely action that people need to do. Hence, our communities must see to it that these systems are present and functional.

On another note, we must address our vulnerabilities so that the impact of hazards can be mitigated. Attitudes towards evacuation must not be nonconforming and deviant. When the government asks us to evacuate, we must submit to it for the sake of our safety, because the hardest damage to accept are the casualties of both the people and the rescuers.

Hence, we ask the youth to play an active part in information education campaigns on disaster resiliency. It is best that our values on “bayanihan” and “pagbangon” are strengthened by our education. As the Sendai Framework states “our goal is to avoid creating new and reduce existing risk. But when that is not possible, people-centered early warning systems and preparedness can enable early action to minimize the harm to people, assets and livelihoods.”



Photo Courtesy: Provincial Board Member Dionisio Dexter Galit

10/10/2022

“Mental Health is Health”

The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic threatened our very existence. Peace of mind were robbed from us and we can no longer breathe an air of relief. All the sectors were affected and the education sector is not exempted from its grave ramifications.

The lack of social-emotional learning due to school closures and the mountain of tasks that students experienced were some of the factors that led to the horror arrival of mental health conditions. Anxiety, depression, panic attacks, and stress have become so common that we are no longer strangers to them.

It is disheartening that there are people who claims that these mental health conditions are not real. The least we can do is not to deny them of what they are going through. The best we can do is to support them: lend an arm, an ear, and a heart. Make them realize that life is hard but is still beautiful and that they are not alone.

As we celebrate the World Mental Day this October 10, we from The Consignor stress that mental health conditions are real. It is real, it is here, it is now. We take care of our mental health because it is a firm foundation of our existence. Hence, we must protect it. As they say, “when you don’t know what to choose, choose your mental health.”

05/10/2022

Teachers molding life winners, thank you for everything and we love you!
Happy World Teachers Day!🎉

30/08/2022

CALLING ALL COED STUDENTS OF UEP-PRMC!!!

📣AFTER the Student Orientation Program and Distribution of Modules, you can freely visit a welcome photobooth infront of hallway gate near COED Office, and take your best shots together with your classmates and friends! It's good to be back at school!
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PADAYON FUTURE EDUCATORS! 🎉

30/08/2022

See you at 7AM tomorrow!

28/08/2022

Announcement!

Schedule of Student Orientation Program and Distribution of Learning Modules (1st Chunk) of Education Department:

August 31, 2022 at UEP-PRMC Gymnatorium, 7AM.