Module mishaps: Oddities found in students’ self-learning materials
By: Pam Pastor
- 4 years ago
People have been finding ridiculous things in self-learning modules and there’s one so bad—one that uses lewd terms—that we couldn’t even publish it.
That specific module, according to Education Secretary Leonor Briones, isn’t from DepEd, but from a review center in Zambales. “It’s really a sabotage of our programs,” she said, adding that the module “put us in a bad light.”
But that’s not the only module excerpt making rounds online. There are plenty of pages that have left students, parents and netizens face-palming and scratching their heads. They’re kind of funny but they make us feel more like crying.
Here are some:
In a social media post, Kyan Cenita shared this module page asking third graders to write rap about their life experiences.
According to this module, the word rabbit begins with the letter “L.”
We’ve never seen an ostrich with such a short neck.
An angry parent posted an exercise asking students to draw stars—a lot of stars—in boxes. “Siguraduhin mo lang bibilangin mo yang bituin na ilalagay ng anak ko kundi ikaw makakakita ng maraming bituin sa sampal ko,” the caption read.
We don’t think even pilots or aircraft engineers can answer this question.How can students identify color if the modules are in black and white?
There are so many things wrong with this module—the atrocious grammar is just one of them. The photo is clearly of a rally of a foreign environmentalist group but in the answer key, it’s identified as “expression of freedom for peacefully assemble against the government.” Why did the people participate in the event? “Against the new law being implemented.” This 12th grade “Media and Information Literacy” (where is the literacy?) module asks the question: “If given the chance, will you join the rally? Why or why not?” And apparently, there’s only one correct answer: “No, because the government has really doing their best for all the Filipino people and their constituents.” Wow. We’re rarely rendered speechless but here you are.
