DepEd partners with GMA Network to air educational TV shows

On Friday, the Department of Education (DepEd) welcomed the official signing of a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with GMA Network. The agreement aims to expand the department's blended learning program through GMA's Digital Channels. 

DepEd TV will be available on GMA Affordabox’s Channel 7 and will begin its test broadcast in mid-December. 

The meeting attendees from DepEd were Secretary Leonor Magtolis-Briones, Undersecretary Diosdado M. San Antonio and Undersecretary Revsee Escobedo and GMA Network officials led by GMA Chairman & CEO, Atty Felipe. L. Gozon. 

Gozon said that the partnership is part of the Kapuso Network’s efforts to help the government curb the spread of the virus in the country while providing Filipino students access to basic education at the safety of their homes. 

GMA Network has always recognized the value of basic education to our school children. It is therefore our honor and privilege to join forces with the Department of Education and provide our TV platform for free to enable our young learners to have access to broadcast education while keeping them safe at home,

Gozon said. 

It is also GMA Network’s shared responsibility to be part of the country’s efforts to curb the spread of COVID-19 and at the same time enrich the lives of Filipinos in ways that we can,

he added. 

Briones expressed gratitude to the Kapuso Network as DepEd was campaigning for schools to be less dependent on printed modules for it is expensive and not environment-friendly. 

We care for the environment. We don’t like to demolish all our forests in our demand for paper and right now we are suffering the consequences… We are now drowning, being engulfed in flood and typhoons so there are two aspects of our preference to move on to much less dangerous methods of learning delivery and we are very grateful to GMA for offering us their free assistance and their advice,

Briones said. 

We thank you for helping us move forward from wasteful, expensive, dangerous and life-threatening modalities of learning delivery to the concept of the use of technology and digital ways and we are very grateful for your assistance,

she added.