ABS-CBN offers Knowledge Channel’s lessons to government
ABS-CBN Corporation’s Knowledge Channel offering to share its video lessons with the government which is shifting to distance learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The firm said these lessons could reach as many as 7.6 million students, a huge portion of the 27 million expected to enroll this school year.
“Knowledge Channel is prepared to work with the government. We have created and acquired more than a thousand video lessons, all based on the K to 12 curriculum of the Department of Education and these are ready for use,” Knowledge Channel Foundation, Inc. (KCFI) director for operations Edric Calma said.
For 21 years, KCFI has developed and acquired multimedia educational materials that public schools nationwide, especially in remote regions used to enhance teaching and learning.
They are aired over Knowledge Channel and used for instruction by KCFItrained teachers and are also designed for home-based learning.
Before ABS-CBN went off the air on May 5, Knowledge Channel aired over SKYcable, SKYdirect, ABS-CBN TVplus, and other cable and direct to home satellite TV providers, reaching millions of students.
According to Calma, KCFI has developed into video format 50 percent of the most essential learning competencies (MELC) that DepEd requires to be taught for the school year, and that KCFI can easily develop the remaining 50 percent.
Knowledge Channel’s method of using TV technology has proven to improve the performance of children in school.
Studies conducted by the DLSU La Sallian Institute for Development and Educational Research and the UP Statistical Center for Research Foundation's Impact Study for Proficient Measures for Quality Education revealed that children who were taught using Knowledge Channel video lessons performed better in tests.
“The most essential learning competencies are the minimum curriculum-prescribed skills that students must acquire,” Calma said.
Calma stressed that the 21st century DepEd curriculum is about understanding and creating designs, systems and processes, unlike in the past when students were just required to memorize.