Ateneo Laboratory for the Learning Sciences

Last April, the TPD@Scale Coalition launched the Teacher’s Guide for Remote Learning During School Closures and Beyond. This quick-decision guide, prepared by FIT-ED (Coalition Secretariat) with Coalition members Education University of Hong Kong, SUMMA and RTI International, is intended for teachers continuing to engage their students in learning during school closures and beyond.

YouTube playlists are also available to serve as supplementary materials for the Teacher’s Guide for Remote Learning. This can help educators know:

• What: The content to be taught
• Who: The learning profile, current status and needs
• How: The learning design and implementation

ALLS would like to share these resources so school administrators, teachers, and parents everywhere can have access to high-quality materials to ensure continuous learning for children.

After a recent international study showed Filipino students ranked low in reading comprehension, Dr. Ma. Mercedes Rodrigo of Areté, Ateneo de Manila University turned to the digital platform to find ways to help Filipinos improve their vocabulary, reading comprehension and much more.

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Catch the ALLS Head, Dr. Rodrigo, in Arete’s Magisterial Lecture series! In this lecture, she discusses how machine-learned models are constrained by the data on which they are based, and by the human beings who control them. The video is now available on Youtube.

Ma. Mercedes T Rodrigo is a professor at the Department of Information Systems and Computer Science, the head of the Ateneo Laboratory for the Learning Sciences, and the Executive Director of Arete. Her areas of specialization are educational technology, artificial intelligence in education, and educational data mining.

The full learning packet (transcripts, slides, etc.) will be available on https://arete.ateneo.edu/connect/magisterial-lectures.

The Magisterial Lecture series is a collection of selected talks from Ateneo classes, delivered by some of the University’s most respected faculty members. They are produced and shared for the benefit of learners everywhere. Magisterial Lectures will be available on Arete’s YouTube channel for free.

Magisterial Lectures is an Arete Production done in partnership with The Department of Communication, Loyola Schools and the Eugenio Lopez Jr. Center for Multimedia Communication.

Project Smile promoted the ALLS games on their Facebook page as part of their Accessible Assistance Alliance initiative. With this, we hope to spread awareness about games which can help children learn more about certain lessons from subjects taught in school such as English, Math, Science, and Filipino. We also hope to reach more parents and teachers who could benefit from these especially for remote learning.

Project Smile is a youth-led non-profit organization whose main advocacy is to provide happiness through acts of kindness to neglected and underprivileged Filipinos. The organization is currently focusing on creating projects for children with disabilities (CWDs). To know more about how you can contribute to their Accessible Assistance Initiative, you may check this post.

Streets to Schools will launch their second live episode featuring Drug Defense on their Facebook page at 6:00 pm on Sept. 25, 2020.

Together with Micah Santos, a youth volunteer, the audience will explore the game Drug Defense and learn how addictive substances can affect one’s body. This also helps educate the youth on the consequences of alcohol use and abuse at an early age.

Drug Defense is a game developed by the Ateneo Laboratory for the Learning Sciences and it is available in the Apple App store and Google Play Store for free! Download it now!