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'Ask a person who experienced the Spanish era': Online school activity elicits funny reactions online

January 31, 2022 | 4:32pm

'Ask a person who experienced the Spanish era': Online school activity elicits funny reactions online

A screenshot of the supposed online school activity (right) asking to interview someone from the Spanish era like National Hero Dr. Jose Rizal (left).

Rich Mahusay via Facebook

MANILA, Philippines (Updated 7:15 p.m.) — It is common knowledge these days that both students and parents have been dealing with online learning at home, almost two years since the global pandemic has hit us. Online modules are used temporarily by students for digital schooling.

Some activities from the online modules have elicited some funny reactions online as netizens have shared on social media — some due to wrong grammar or spelling, while some due to plain ridiculousness. The most recent is one shared by netizen Rich Mahusay.

One activity from an online history activity asks students to do a seemingly impossible task:

"Ask a person who experienced the Spanish era," the module activity instructed. "Let him/her tell you how they managed during those times."

The post, as expected, has gained some funny reactions.

One netizen commented, "Ay sayang, mahigit 25 taon nang patay ang lola ko! Ang kwento niya sa amin lagi ay panahon ng Kastila, Amerikano at Hapon. Kung buhay lang sana siya. Siya papainterview ko sa inyo."

While another one said, "Si Enrile, kahit dinosaur era pa yan nandun na sya."

Mahusay, the one who shared the page from the module, captioned his post: "Doc Ruben Malabuyo: Magpapaunlak naman siguro si DepEd Sec Leonor Briones..."

Meanwhile, in a statement sent to Philstar.com, the Department of Education made it clear that the module in the viral post was actually published by a private institution, and not by DepEd.

"This is not a DepEd module. It's published by a private institution," the statement said.

It is not clear how the online modules were authored, or who authored the activity in the online history module. Safe to say, the authors themselves cannot possibly be alive nor around during the Spanish era.

ERRATUM:

The earlier version of this story was mistakenly titled "Ask a person who experienced the Spanish era': DepEd ridiculed anew for alleged module error." This has been corrected. The module was not published by the Department of Education, but by a private institution, as per DepEd statement. We apologize for the error.