Mayor Vilma Balle-Caluag of San Fernando City, Pampanga has led the distribution of the initial batch of learning tablets to the students of the City College of San Fernando Pampanga (CCSFP).
The donation of the first batch of 125 learning tablets was made following the request of the CCSFP Supreme Student Council (SSC) who wrote a letter to the mayor last July.
The SSC appealed to the local government to provide the students with the gadgets, given the emergence of online, flexible, hybrid, or advanced learning modalities, especially in times of calamities.
The Council also conducted a study showing that some CCSFP students only use their smartphones.
Quoting the SSC, the City Information Office (CIO) said that the tablets will help the CCSFP “maintain its standard of excellence in education” and that there is a “substantial need for these learning resources so as the students do not suffer from ‘digital divide’ and ‘poverty’ even in technological resources.”
Amid the city government’s funding constraints, the gadgets personally came from Caluag and her family and the private sector, including the Multi-Sectoral Governance Council and the city government departments and offices.
More than 1,000 second and third-year students could use the tablets, including e-learning materials that they may access from home and the college library, the CIO said, quoting CCSFP Vice President for Academic Affairs and International Engagements Dr. Melanie Briones.
The CCSFP-SSC will be in official possession of the tablets. The next batches of tablets will be distributed as donations arrive.
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