Two faculty members of the Foundation University High School were among the 27 participants who received their certifications last week as iPad instructors in the entire country.
Joel Balajadia, coordinator of the University’s Information, Communication Technology programs and John Audi Bato, a faculty of the College of Computer Studies.
“It is truly our pride to have been granted the certification,” said Joel Balajadia, “because we’re the pioneering group in Asia to be recognized as certified iPad instructors.”
According to him, the certification training he attended last January 21-25 at the Holiday Inn Hotel in Makati was intended for schools with one to one iPad implementation. With a total of 27 participants, Foundation University has been said to be the biggest user of iPads.
Leading the certification training was Noraini Padillah, a former teacher of the Ministry of Education in Singapore, along with three other representatives from Apple.
Balajadia said the entire experience has been a collaborative learning among the different iPad instructors from all over the country. “One can always really learn something new no matter how knowledgeable you think you are,” he noted.
One part of the certification training was a discussion focusing of SMAR, an acronym which stands for Substitution, Augmentation, Modification, and Redefinition, which is a classification of learning objectives within education patterned from the Bloom’s Taxonomy of Learning Domains.
The training was sponsored by FU’s partner apple distributor, Liteware Computers, and the certification granted to all 27 participants is renewable every two years.
