4,000 students set for digital literacy training

BACOLOD CITY — Around 4,000 Alternative Learning System (ALS) students here will take basic digital literacy training under the Negros Occidental Language and Information Technology Center-TECH4ED tomorrow, Thursday.

NOLITC Administrator Ma. Cristina Orbecido said this training will a requirement for them to graduate in the Department of Education’s K to 12 academic curriculum through their module embedded in the TECH4ED program.

The training will be at the NOLITC TECH4ED Center at the Paglaum Sports Complex in Bacolod City.

Digital literacy training for the teachers is already finished and they are now reaching for more ALS students to avail this, she said.

TECH4ED is a program under the Department of Information and Communications Technology which offers online access to different government services, IT programs and online market venue for small business in the country.

NOLITC TECH4ED recently was awarded as one of the outstanding TECH4ED implementers in the country since it started March last year.

Orbecido also said more sectors like the out-of-school youths are their focus to be beneficiaries of the TECH4ED program this year, adding that they hope that other marginalized sectors will also be reached.

NOLITC has three TECH4ED facilities in Negros Occidental located in the municipal hall of Cauayan town, Brgy. Suay in Himamaylan City and in NOLITC Center in the old Paglaum Sports Complex in Bacolod City.

Orbecido also hopes that more ALS students outside of Bacolod City will avail digital literacy training offered by the center.

“This training is a requirement for ALS students to graduate under the K to 12 curriculum and we are open to creating more training programs to meet their requirements,” she said.