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    Giant sequoia trees are some of the largest and oldest living organisms on Earth, growing up to 3000 years old. They have surprisingly shallow roots, only 6-20 feet deep, yet their roots are intertwined with other sequoias which provides incredible strength and stability to the group. This network effect of their root systems reminds us that there is strength in community, and no individual can succeed alone without support from others.

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    Giant sequoia trees are some of the largest and oldest living organisms on Earth, growing up to 3000 years old. They have surprisingly shallow roots, only 6-20 feet deep, yet their roots are intertwined with other sequoias which provides incredible strength and stability to the group. This network effect of their root systems reminds us that there is strength in community, and no individual can succeed alone without support from others.

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    Lesson from the Sequioa Trees

    by Judith A. Aquino

    Giant Sequoias are special. They are not just the largest trees in the world, they are also the
    largest (and amongst the oldest) living organisms on earth. They are on average 200-300 ft
    tall, have a diameter of 25 ft, with the oldest growing up to 3000 years. (Seth, 2017)

    Do you wonder how these Sequioa trees are connected to this? Let me share to you our story.

    I can still remember the times when I would draw inch by inch the details of a keyboard just for
    the students to master the skills of keyboarding. I would also draw on the board the specifics of a
    website just to explain to them what they need to accomplish. Because we are lacked of the most
    important tools to have, which were the computers and the internet, they would just draw on the
    manila paper the ideas of how were they going to design their own website.

    Then came the DepEd Computerization Program Package in 2018 which somehow filled the
    necessities of having computer as a tool for learning. On the other hand, challenges didn’t stop from
    that point because we still needed the internet to meet the exact competencies which the DepEd set
    for the Senior High School learners.

    Based from the Curriculum Guide designed by the DepEd for the subject Empowerment
    Technologies, learners have to learn how to access online platforms to create presentations such
    Prezi, Soho and/or Slideshare. Learners were also expected to learn cloud computing by using Google
    Drive, Evernote and/or Dropbox. Web page creation must be completed by the learners before the
    semester ends by accessing Wix, Weebly, Jimdo and/or Wordpress. All the said platforms are available
    only if the learners will access the internet which our school barely had. We did our own means to
    make the ends meet. I, as their subject teacher, reached up to the point wherein I shared expenses
    with my learners to afford the load promos of Globe just to help them accomplish the tasks they
    ought to be done and thus, learn the knowledge and skills they were required to learn. Despite of
    these efforts, I could say that struggles weren’t enough for a hundred percent learning.

    Those were the days before the pandemic. And now, to review the Most Essential Learning
    Competencies (MELCs) designed for the subject Empowerment Technologies, I am sad to hear that it
    hardly changed. Despite the fact that it’s pandemic and they said that every factors were considered
    before MELCs were released for implementation, I saw that lessons were lessened but same heavy
    expectations were still loaded into the learners.

    Digital divide widened as the COVID-19 pandemic emerged. Only those learners with the right
    technology and access to the internet survives the modular type of instructions.

    Thanks to the efforts done by Gov. Humerlito “Bonz” A. Dolor, wherein, he initiated the
    distribution of tablets to all the Grade 12 learners in Porfirio G. Comia Memorial National High School.
    Not only in this school but also to all other schools in the province of Oriental Mindoro. This will be a
    big relief especially to less fortunate learners who have only pen and paper and nothing more.
    Going back to Sequioa trees, Giant Sequoias have surprisingly small roots, only 6-20 ft
    deep. Yet these shallow roots support these giants for thousands of years. If Giant Sequoia will be left
    alone growing in an open field, it will soon be easily fallen down by a strong typhoon. The answer lies
    in the fact that Sequoias grow close to each other and their roots are intertwined. It is this matting of
    the roots, the network effect that provides the incredible strength and stability to the Sequoias. (Seth,
    2017)

    The nature steadfastly reminds us that there is strength in the community and that no
    individual can stand tall without the support of many.

    Resource: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/5-life-lessons-from-giant-sequoias-nitin-seth

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