Department of Education conducts its first Regional Hybrid Training on Cybersafety in Schools. (DepEd Region 3)
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga — Department of Education (DepEd) conducted its first Regional Hybrid Training on Cybersafety in Schools.
This is pursuant to DepEd Order No. 003, series of 2021 otherwise known as the Creation of the Child Protection Unit and the Child Rights in Education Desk.
“The training highlighted the importance of our constitutional mandate to promote and protect the holistic development of Filipino learners through the promotion of their physical, moral, spiritual, intellectual, and social well-being,” DepEd Regional Director May Eclar said.
Legal Officers and teachers who shall be designated as focal person in Cybersafety from Central Luzon’s 20 Schools Division Offices (SDOs) served as participants.
Part of the training gave emphasis on the need to understand the different child protection issues encountered by learners in the online world and the need to educate school personnel on different cybersafe tool that can be used in curriculum instruction and delivery, and in cases where they need to respond to cyber abuse and violence.
“DepEd expresses its iron-clad commitment in providing holistic development of Filipino learners in the region, and that all constitutional rights of every Filipino learner in the region shall be respected, promoted and fulfilled in order for them to have productive and meaningful lives as they participate in the noble nation-building project,” Eclar emphasized. (CLJD-PIA 3)
