EdVenture Partners with Knowledge Channel for “Wikaharian”

EdVenture, the edutech startup of Globe's corporate venture builder 917Ventures, has partnered with the Knowledge Channel to produce entertaining and educational episodes of "Wikaharian," an animated series of Filipino lessons.

The partnership seeks to teach Filipino students through reading with the Marungko method. This approach is designed to improve students’ reading skills by introducing letters based on sound instead of the traditional arrangement. The letters are then used in localized and contextualized songs and poems for the students to remember and learn them better.

 

EdVenture tutor Lara Flores, an experienced public school teacher majoring in Filipino, will be the guest storyteller on Wikaharian Online World for four episodes.

 

The series, to be hosted by Ate Michelle, started airing on September 19, with the rest of the episodes slated to come out on September 26, October 3 and 10 from 11 a.m. to 12 noon on Knowledge Channel’s Facebook, and the FYE channel on Kumu. It will also be aired on Knowledge Channel TV every Friday with replays every Saturday and Sunday at 6:40 a.m. and 6:40 p.m.

 

“Wikaharian” is a project of the Knowledge Channel to promote reading and numeracy through arts and culture. Knowledge Channel is the first and only curriculum-based educational television channel in the Philippines owned and operated by Knowledge Channel Foundation, Inc.

 

“EdVenture’s collaboration with Knowledge Channel is part of our advocacy to provide 21st-century quality education to Filipino learners while increasing the quality of life of Filipino teachers. Through Wikaharian, we hope to help develop an interest in reading among children and make learning fun for them,” said Cristina Gervasio, EdVenture Entrepreneur-in-Residence.

 

The platform continues to integrate technology into the teaching-learning process of students and equip parents with what they need to catalyze educational transformation.  At the same time, it provides additional income to hundreds of Filipino teachers.

 

EdVenture offers high-quality, affordable, and inclusive one-on-one tutorials in Math, Science, English, Filipino, Reading, and Araling Panlipunan to students in preschool to Grade 10. It has packages that provide intensive tutoring sessions and access to free and exclusive learning materials.

 

Learn more about EdVenture by visiting https://edventure.ph/.

Knowledge Channel and Fatty Brain Toys Advocate Play and Technology for Smarter Kids at ‘SKY Alive!’

Passionate in making learning more fun and interactive for Filipino children, Knowledge Channel along with Fatty Brain Toys will join SKY Cable Corporation in celebrating its 25th year of service in the Philippines. The first ever cable fair catering to Filipino families, the silver anniversary is tagged as ‘SKY Alive’ and will host all the networks under SKY on March 12 and 13 at the SMX Convention Center.

“'SKY Alive!’ is an innovative way to really bring the world closer to Filipino homes and it echoes SKY and ABS-CBN’s same vision to constantly be in the service of the Filipino people.” said March S. Ventosa, Chief Operating Officer of Sky Cable Corporation.

The only all-educational TV channel in the country with localized content simulcast nationwide, Knowledge Channel not only provides DepEd-curriculum based video episodes for the different subjects and grade levels in K to 10 to supplement public education, but also online instructional games, professional teacher trainings and other interactive forms of learning for mature audiences and out-of-school students.

Knowing that progressive education would open up a world of opportunities to underprivileged Filipino learners, Rina Lopez-Bautista co-founded Knowledge Channel 16 years ago to empower public schools with DepEd-aligned educational media and technologies that help improve learning.

“The foundation has been tirelessly finding ways to innovate to help improve the quality of learning in public schools across the country for 16 years through media and technology. This year, I’m studying learning technologies abroad and I’m coming up of ways to translate everything that I’ve learned into projects that would make the educational system more progressive,” Rina Lopez-Bautista said.

“I’m after a more holistic approach, so I’m exploring all kinds of mediums, not only technology. We are so excited to partner with Fatty Brain Toys and incorporate our depth of experience in education and Philippine media into the toy industry,” she added.

Mona Ng, founder and general manager of Fatty Brain Toys, the internationally acclaimed award-winning educational toy company in the Philippines, believes that partnering with Knowledge Channel will help them educate more Filipinos about the power of play in education.

“It’s a great honor to partner with Knowledge Channel. Together, we can provide Filipino children an array of learning resources that are proven to improve the cognitive development of kids. Fatty Brain Toys strongly believes that Knowledge Channel can help us reach more kids, schools and families in the Philippines looking for a more fun, creative and interactive forms of learning,” Miss Ng said.

Promising the holistic development of a child through free play, the Fatty Brain Toys collection is designed to develop the intellectual, emotional and physical aspects of kids. Their toys, which have been scientifically proven to be effective ways to make kids smarter, have received several awards from the Educational Toys industry, Doctors, Amazon and Science and Parenting magazines, including Great American Toy Test Educational Toys (2002 and 2003), Gold Star Award Toys (2003), and Dr. Toy’s 100 Best Children Products.
The two progressive education advocates will be engaging the kids in an interactive play session on the event this weekend, Saturday. You may also catch them in the Knowledge Channel booth.

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