Wednesday, 8 April 2020

Extended Practice Brief #1: Baybayin (How can Filipinos learn (more) about Baybayin?)

From reading articles about reviving Baybayin The House of Committee in Basic Education and Culture has approved a bill to make Baybayin the national writing system of the Philippines however the main problem is:

  • People can't read them in the first place
  • Even teachers have to learn it first before teaching it to students who will hopefully know it 'naturally' in the future
  • It still needs to be translated to the Roman alphabet therefore some may consider it redundant
Therefore learning Baybayin will have to start from scratch for everyone regardless of age/profession/ even class. As Philippines is one of the most technological savvy countries it'd be appropriate to create a digital platform that virtually anyone can access and learn Baybayin from. 

Ideas:
  • Creating a website that shows the basics of Baybayin and how it can be applied to current Filipino traditions and societal norms and cultures.
  • Social media platform link - e.g. to facebook (to intice more people to use the website as Filipinos are the 12th highest Internet users in the world with 63,000,000+ Internet users out of its 104,000,000,000+ population.
  • Dictionary type book that could be handed out to students in school as a way to encourage them to learn Baybayin and write in Baybayin and to get used to the script easier.

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