“REFLECT THEN REFRACT”

            As what all people have in mind, “Life is too short”. True, life is just like one glimpse when its God’s time, it’s like 1 day for them in heaven and is just like only millisecond for God. Life is just a twinkling of bright yellow star, so we should make the very most out of it.

            One midnight, I awoke then I couldn’t sleep so I went out and gazed at the stars. I tried to remember what had happened the hours before but it’s just that I can’t remember a thing. I don’t know why. Then I woke up in the reality that months, weeks, days and hours had completely passed since the first quarter in my senior life in high school begun. I realized that another quarter was already finished, I am now halfway. I tried to reflect on the things that I did, if I had made my promise to do better in the second quarter but I can hardly remember a single thing but one thing I’m sure of is that I have learned some things in every subject that I am taking, especially in my ICT subject because its one of my favorite aside from English and Social Studies. I must admit that we have had so much out of class activities this quarter but all is well. We had still good lessons in ICT though. We just had activities regarding HTML tags and I easily grasped the lesson so well, thank God. Wow! I now remember these things. It’s great!

            I just hope I did well in every decision I made, in every recitation I had, in every activity I performed, in every quiz I had taken, and in every periodic test I answered because this will greatly affect my future.     

            Here comes again these days, so fast like an ultra jet. Tomorrow, we don’t know, would be again December, the yuletide season, and then January which will be the announcement of the winners of the much awaited announcement of winners of the Kannawidan essay writing competition which I had joined last July and then, it would be February the announcement of Upcat Passers. I am praying to God that he would let us win and would let me pass the Upcat. And then It would be March, Graduation Day!, oh yes, I would be soon a college student.

As of now I would like to live my life to the fullest because life is too short…………

Promoting Digital Literacy through English Proficiency

Filipinos country-wide, face the most important tasks, these are to relinquish the status quo and embrace a new definition of public media that is more local, more inclusive and more interactive. They should develop English proficiency by obtaining the necessary funding and hiring students who bring digital skills, diversity and content expertise. They should support English based activities with strengthened editorial oversight and professional development opportunities. They should create a culture that supports independent, fearless acts that serves their campuses and communities. They should also move full force into digital media and acquire the necessary expertise and resources as they redirect funding from outmoded broadcast infrastructure into digital technology.

“Digital literacy” is a concept that is repeated time and time again in most of the studies related to the information and knowledge of the society. The argumentative context in which this expression tends to appear is the development of the information for the society based on information and communication technologies. As a result, the accelerated appearance of such technologies is crucial and the aim is that a particular society assumes a competitive position now and in the future.

Various expressions are used that transmit the same idea with slight differences in meaning: “information literacy”, “literacy in information and communication technologies (ICT)”, “media literacy”, “network literacy”, “media education”, and  “education in communication”. Less general is “media education”. This term keeps the educational dimension of the previous definition, but is more precise: it refers specifically to the means of communication, embracing traditional media like the press, radio, and television, as well as more recent innovations such as the Internet, second and third generation mobile phones, and others.

Digital literacy can no wonder contribute to the betterment of the country for it gives our societies a viable position in the time to come. Student’s intelligence would be upgraded and technical skills would be further developed. Literacy in technology has the possibility to boost up our country like Japan, US or Russia. Digital literacy would improve the lives of Filipinos if it is absorbed by the whole nation.   

The only one who could help to promote and uphold this digital literacy to the public is the people itself. Even students through studying by which the students learn through writing and speaking, must have an endeavor to promote digital literacy to the public. Digital literacy is now up to date that it needs more preferment and advancement for the good of the entire studentry and not only that but same as through with the locality and country.