DepEd integrates teaching processes via ‘Edu Futures’

The Educ Futures unit aims to seek answers to numerous challenges facing education, and craft policies based on research, global trends and best practices

With its effort to strategically evaluate and integrate trends and advancements in learning and teaching processes, the Department of Education (DepEd) has started setting up its Education Futures Unit (Educ Futures), in anticipation of more challenging issues in education.

According to DepEd Secretary Leonor Magtolis Briones, the Educ Futures unit aims to seek answers to numerous challenges facing education, and craft policies based on research, global trends and best practices.

While DepEd undersecretary for curriculum and instruction Diosdado San Antonio explained that the goal of the unit is to explore scenarios in education and anticipates how things would be beyond administrative terms.

“We believe that anybody, any well-meaningful educator has to be mindful of the future of education and this requires all of us to heavily exercise strategic foresight,” he said in his keynote speech at the “EduTECH Philippines Virtual 2021 Day 1.”

With a vision for every learner to be independent, work-ready, and a self-fulfilled proactive citizen, DepEd said Educ Futures will receive guidance and aid from concerned committees in the Senate and the House of Representatives, universities and higher learning institutions,

including international networks.

“Education technology has offered us a lot of opportunities that young children will be very excited about. It makes them more curious about things and it enables them to explore the world on their own,” San Antonio added.

PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF BCPO THE ‘hero swan boat’ which was used to rescue people and provide leisure for young flood-trapped residents of Cagayan during the fury of typhoon ‘Ulysses’ last year.