Baguio rolls-out country’s first E-Eskwela Hub

August 29, 2020 Community Billboard

Baguio City rolls-out the first E-Eskwela Hub in the country with the opening of the hub at the Baguio City Library, Thursday morning. Eight Computers connected to the internet are now installed at the Baguio City Library as the E-Eskwela hub rollout in the Country. Baguio City Mayor Benjamin Magalong, Ang Probinsyano Party-List (APPL) Representative Ronnie Ong, Frontrow CEO-Foundaer Samuel Verzosa, jr., ink a memorandum of agreement (MOA) for the donation of desktop computers and two printers and the continuing maintenance of printer ink and paper bond.
Frontrow donated the desktop computer through APPL and is slated a number of E-Eskwela hubs across the in the coming weeks. The E-skwela hub is an elearning center open for teachers, learners, and parents helping their kids with online learning and blended learning.
People going to the center they can get free use of Personal Computer with wifi, and free printing for the first ten pages of documents. This is part of the pilot program in partnership partnership with Frontrow Philippines and coordinated by the Office of Ong in support to Baguio City Government’s efforts and the Department of Education (DepEd) in making sure that no student gets left behind.
With the new normal of education under the blended learning system, classes will be conducted online and via printed module delivery. It is a hard reality that not all students have access to fast and reliable internet connection nor printers available in their homes for their modules. With the establishment of the blended modality of learning, the Hub will be the community’s supplementary e-learning center for those without access to the internet or printers.
Since not all students have access to fast and reliable internet connection nor printers available in their homes for their modules. With the establishment of the program, the students will at least be eased from the challenges of the new mode of learning.
Upon entry to the educational hub, protocols will strictly be implemented or observed and monitored by the local government unit officer at the Hub. Students and teachers will be advised tipre-register with their LGU or barangay and they are provided a stub with their details for easy tracking and monitoring. Each student and teacher can just be given an ID Reference number.
Also, upon entry, thermal scanners must be used. There should also be disinfectants such as alcohol sprays, foot baths at the hub’s entrance, etc. A no mask, no entry policy should be implemented, and physical distancing should be practiced.
The hub is initially equipped with eight tables with acrylic dividers with eight chairs, eight CPUs with eight monitor sets and keyboards, two Printers, ten gallons of alcohol, one-foot press, ten reams of paper and ten printer ink
bottles. The continuous supply of reams of paper and printer ink bottles will be coordinated with the partners for replenishment and sustainability of the hub.
Magalong expressed gratitude to Ong and Frontrow for the hub. He said that the hub is very timely to aid the students, parents and teachers in facing the challenges the new mode of learning gives.
JJ Landingin