YOUTUBE,TV in action.

Bernadette L. Pineda

YouTube is a favorite destination among the young and the digital. The platform and sharing campaign-related news,events, and media. DepEd use viral media expertly, uploading more than a thousand YouTube videos over the course in the time of pandemic

With platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, as well as mobile phones with android, they could tap their network anytime, and, importantly, in their own time. Young citizen expressed their feeling through memes, blogs,virtual paraphelnalia. The module even require to upload activities and may sent through group chat. Social network sites evolved into educational communities and were used to share pictures,,news links, and video clips that were serious and hilarious.

Television, for at least three decades, has long been the dominant source of news and information in the Philippines. Even the Pulse Asia told that most Filipinos, cited only television as their main source of news, information ,and leisure time. Twenty years later, social, technological, and enerational change was the catalyst for another transformation.

Through a series of surveys conducted, module dominated as the main medium of instruction for students, but it requires also to use downloaded information in different sites. Through younger Filipinos do not read newspapers or watch evening news, they are usually just a click,scroll, or link away from what is happening in the world. In fact they get their news the way they get their media-from the Web, on the go, and peer to peer. In a world of anytime,anywhere media and constant connectivity , news often comes to us. One young student summed it up best: If the news is important, it will find me.” Whatever the problem s posed by social and mobile media, a lack of news and information is not one of them.

The author is Teacher

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III at Turu Elementary School, Magalang