ENVIRONMENTAL AWARNESS: Needs a GLOBAL CHALLENGE in EDUCATION
Today’s fast-moving society makes it increasingly important for people, especially our youth to understand what is happening in the
wider world. For us, globalization creates both opportunities and dangers. It throws our young learners and economies together, changing
the way they live in unpredictable ways. Our youth has spread new technologies into every corner of the regions in the Philippines and
even to the world, bringing both improvements and problems in their wake. With the use of I.C.T. it enables our learners to communicate
and travel with greater ease, widening horizons as well as raising fears and barriers. Multimedia, including new ICT, has turned our
learning environment into a global village, dramatically highlighting the gulf between rich and poor, cities and countryside, industrialized
and subsistence economies.
As a learning institution, global connection is what we want our learners to achieve as a result in collaboration with other diverse
cultures. Our youth are ACTIVE: means that it is not simply academic or theoretical, but starts from learner’s everyday experiences,
develop practical skills and involves active learning.
What does GLOBAL CONNECTION
MEAN to our students?
The students of Marcial O. Ranola Memorial School (M.O.R.M.S.) are digital natives that continue to learn to live as a global society.
Its I.C.T. initiative revolves around the belief that the lack of awareness about global interdependence can have serious consequences.
To over looked the importance of global awareness also means to us that huge opportunities offered by a global society is an opportunity
lost.
Education combined with the use of I.C.T. has become a great combination in our school. It has enabled our youth in learning the skills
and knowledge needed to thrive in this changing world. But the kind of education needed today is now different from that of the past.
Knowledge is changing and growing faster than ever before. Our students’ uses multimedia and the internet have given our students
more access to knowledge.
Understanding: means that our student engages in critical analysis of information, knowledge, concepts and values. Collaboration or
Connections: means our students put into practice the basic skills in discussing global challenges in everyday life;
sharing experiences
and solutions to challenges and other issues about which they feel strongly and meaningful to them. Our institution believes that
this would generate words and topics that increase interest and motivation to learn. Our learners made links
between these topics and
relevant global issues that enabled them to interpret and discuss the global issues more critically, to form their own opinions and
express them freely while developing confidence, vocabulary and communication skills in the process.
Environmental Education: Greener Minds for a
Greener Community