By: Elcha Mae J. Villacapa
| Prof. Leo B. Pula gives a lecture before the training proper.
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The Bachelor of Science in Computer Science started today, Sept. 16, its series of trainings titled “Teaching ICT to ALS Learners of Mambusao.”
More or less 50 Alternative Learning System (ALS) learners from Mambusao East and West Districts attended the first phase of the trainings which aim to equip ALS learners with skills on digital literacy.
ALS is a “parallel learning system in the Philippines that provides opportunities for out-of-school youth and adult learners to develop basic and functional literacy skills and to access equivalent pathways to complete basic education.”
The ALS centers in Mambusao are located Barangays Burias, Caidquid, Bula, Bating, Pinay, Balit, Baye and in Mambusao Elementary School and Mambusao District Jail located in Brgy. Bula.
ALS Coordinators Mr. Teodoro Salaya, Ms. Arlyn D. Gabata, Ms. Lyn L. Ponce, and Ms. Tina L. Lantoria are amendable that their learners lack ICT skills due to unavailability of facilities and experts in teaching digital literacy.
According to them, this partnership with CAPSU Mambusao through the Computer Science Department will be very beneficial to their learners in terms of broadening their knowledge and developing their skills in ICT.
Dr. Adelfo Z. Virtudazo, satellite college director, in his opening remarks during the opening program, expressed his appreciation for this initiative to tie up with ALS as clientele of the extension activities of the Campus.
Teaching Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to ALS learners is a training under the ISWEPT extension program of the Computer Science Department of CAPSU Mambusao Satellite College that targets to intervene and solve the problems of ALS learners.
The program will bridge the gap by educating and completing the skills required by the ALS K to 12 Basic Education Curriculum (ALS K to 12 BEC) in terms of digital literacy.
ALS learners will learn to use common office application software such as MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel and basic PC operations.
The pool of trainors is composed of Prof. Leo B. Pula, Prof. Judith L. Vista, Prof. Cherry Joy A. Palomar and Mr. Nicolas Braña.
After today, there will be three more training sessions.