By Aileen V. Joaquin
Contributor
If one
views the situation nowadays,
then one would see that we are we are existing in a world that offers lots of
comforts and conveniences as compared with yesteryears. With the advancement in
technology that affects our lives, almost everything can be done in much less
time and as a result, it is more productive in terms of quantity and quality.
We observe and notice that every
individual is affected and benefited brought about by new technologies. Houses
can be built in a month’s time, foods can be cooked instantly, and vehicles are
much faster, economical and safer compared to the mockups before.
Moreover, we can send messages or
communicate with the people around the globe quicker, easier and more
economical due to the advent of cellular phones, pagers, fax machines, and
electronic email and likewise retrieve documents from our relatives, friends, business
partners or anybody else everywhere in the world whether we are at home, in the
office or on a vacation. We can view television programs and news from other
countries through cables and satellite dishes.
Due to the advancement of
technology, our world has become a lot smaller. The counterpart of advancement of technology
is more on moral deterioration. The
world is caught in a serious social crisis. Many people are charmed by the lure
of criminal acts like killings, drug trafficking, murder, immorality,
drunkenness and others. With the situation, the young children are besieged
with the temptation to imitate what they hear, what they read in the
newspapers, what they see in the television and movies, likewise follow
untoward behavior of maladjusted people around them. Such problems have
penetrated the schools and they are increasingly complicating from day to day.
These crises are attributed through the advancement in technology.
Each man is created not to fight
but to love. This person will go to different places to search for meaning in
his life. This endeavor however is sometimes in vain. There is no peace and
love and the world still becomes more confusing. The more he engages in technology, the more he
is exposed to practices that change his values in life. He loses his own
values. If knowledge and expertise is
important, values is also important.
Positive values or virtues are needed by a person to be able to do his
jobs or responsibilities more effectively and efficiently. These values should
be imbued in his life in order to search for meaning in his life.
The utilization of internet helps
to hasten the democratization of education, but at the same time it also brings
easy access to other cultures. Used unrestrainedly, it will have tremendous
implications on the moral values such as turning scenes of violence, anger and
hatred into stimuli for learning.
We are now on the on the
threshold of an era of high technology, we wanted to embrace its positive
contribution to our lives because we do not want to be left behind. There are
many advantages that make us more prolific and fruitful but our interest in
high tech gadgets should be coupled with desirable values.
Moral deterioration is caused by
wrong modelling, peer influence, family problems, advancement in technology, influence of media,
temper of mother, colonialism, laxity in the enforcement of laws and
materialism (wealth, prestige or honor, power, money and sex), destructive competition and weakening faith in
God.
We should envision a community of
integrated persons abiding to the value of: “MAKA-DIYOS, MAKATAO, MAKAKALIKASAN
at MAKABANSA.”
Teachers play a pivotal role in
the lives of children. They need to assist every individual in attaining self-realization,
determination and self-actualization through proper values/virtues and through partnership
with the internal and external stakeholders.
These teachers strive to
inculcate in the young the values and virtues that carry our families to
nationhood. The young will soon become the leaders of tomorrow, thus, young as
they are, there is a need to instill in their minds and hearts the desirable
values so that when they mature, they will not depart from them. These qualities constitute the same driving
force that shall make possible the lofty dreams we all share for our beloved
country.
If the young minds are fully
developed coupled with appropriate values or virtues, all these will end up to
winning the future, ensuring the well-being and prosperity of the people and
the country as a whole.
The curriculum pursues to encourage
consistency between content and strategies, a balance of theory and practice
and adherence to basic desirable values for total development of all Filipino
people.
The integration of positive
values and attitudes in all teaching-learning experiences among students is
very crucial. There is a need to strengthen
Values Education Program among elementary and secondary schools in order to yield
productive and value-laden learners. Teachers need to be empowered in order to
give guidance and counseling service to the students especially to learners who
are unruly or who have problems on behavior.
Teachers could not teach well their subjects if the students lack the
needed values that will shape them as better individuals.
Likewise, parents have great
roles to display that help mold or shape the character of their children. They
are the partners of the school in educating the children. They play a very vital role in the learners’
total development.
Therefore, in these critical
years in the life of the children or the youth, proper guidance would come in to
be of great help to determine the problems of the learners, their causes, and
possible solutions. The behavioral crises in the schools today adversely affect
the nation’s most precious resources, the youth who should be developed to the
fullest. The youth are the human resources considered as important assets of
the nation. They need to be guided in their early years. Concepts to awaken
their awareness and the consequences that are brought by the advancement of
technology and by this challenging world should be given to them. Each of them should
be provided with proper guidance to understand himself as a unique individual that
is growing and developing in response to this fast changing world. This is
attained through the cooperative efforts of parents, teachers and other
stakeholders with God’s intervention for we believe that it is a concerted or
cooperative efforts of the community to educate or build a child. Proper
education and guidance are necessary to be provided to each individual in order
for him to live a worthy, upright, useful and happy life according to his
nature and to adjust himself adequately to this fast-changing world.
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