Digital learning Globe launches educational e-books
GLOBE Telecom, one of the giants in the telecommunications industry, launched Thursday, Sept. 29, over a thousand educational e-books appropriate for K-12 learning through the Global Filipino School (GFS) program.
Miguel Bermundo, manager, Citizenship Department of Globe Telecom said that as the world embarks on a digital world, it is but necessary to enable digital learning efficient and accessible.
“We want to make digital learning better and easier especially to students and teachers to improve the education system in the country,” he said in a press conference at the Café Demitasse, Torres St., Davao City.
The thousand educational e-books will be made available to over 15 million public elementary and High School students and some 500,000 public school teachers nationwide beginning Sept. 30.
The GFS Library launch coincides with the National Teachers Day celebration of the Department of Education (Deped) at the Ateneo de Davao University (Addu).
For Davao Region, Globe through the GFS program partnered with three public schools: Catalunan Pequeño National High School in Davao City, Davao del Sur; National Highschool in Carmen, Davao del Norte; and Matti National High School in Digos City, Davao del Sur.
This is in line with the company’s ongoing activity to expand GFS to all 221 school divisions of the Deped nationwide within a five-year period.
Fernando Esguerra, Globe Director for Citizenship, for his part, said with the expansion of the GFS Program and awareness of the GFS Library around the country, “the public schools can more effectively make use of reading resources and promote digital learning to more students and teachers nationwide, particularly in schools where access to quality books is limited
the Filipino people, and that is really very important to us,” Diosana said.
For his part, Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III thanked the AER and the other civil society groups that took part in the forum “for being the DOF’s partners in doing this work” of reforming the tax system.
Dominguez said the DOF was moving swiftly to propose reforms in the country’s 20-year old tax system so that the government could raise enough funds for its planned accelerated spending on infrastructure, human capital and social protection programs, in keeping with President Duterte’s 10-point socioeconomic agenda for inclusive growth.