Technologization in Early Registration

Maria Luisa C. David

Impacts undulating from the Covid 19 crisis include changes in the individual, social, and education spheres. The pandemic is currently the central indication of both globalization and deglobalization, as countries close lines and air terminals sit void.

In education, digitation enforces ways of teaching and learning. As Daniel (2020) stated, digitization and education can be infused in one term, which is technologization. Numerous institutions had plans to utilize technology as an innovation in implementing remote learning, yet the flare-up of Covid-19 has implied that changes occur continuously. Hence, making digital technologies the most visible face of the prompt changes taking place in the educational sector.

One of the prompt changes in DepEd schools is the conduct of Early Registration, where learners and parents who wish to pursue schooling in the public schools should take part in the month-long implementation. DepEd issued Memorandum No. 8 series of 2021 that deferred the conduct of early registration from the original schedule of January and February 2021 to March 26 to April 30. Public schools are advised to think of innovative ways on how to conduct early registration and bridge its implementation to learners and their parents.

Technologization catered to the remote platform of early registration. Parents are asked to utilize the Early Registration Link provided by the schools to enlist their children for the next school year. However, traditional implementation of early registration is also observed in schools following the standard health protocols set by the IATF. Covid-19 pandemic ushers numerous challenges, but education must continue in the safest way possible.

*** ** is Master Teacher-I at Sapang Bato Elementary School.

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