MOCHII BALL Many Filipino students are unequipped with skills to support our growing digital economy. Although 97% of Filipino students want to learn more about coding, and 96% wish it would become a core subject in their schools, the Philippines spends the least on coding education compared to its neighboring countries Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, and Indonesia. The Philippines is lagging behind – which comes as no surprise when, based on a 2021 report by the Philippine Department of Education, the ratio of learners to computers is as low as 1:19 for public elementary schoolers, and only an average of 67% of public schools have access to the Internet. Considering the additional cost of purchasing, maintaining, and powering computers, it is difficult to imagine how the country might bridge the digital divide for the nearly 24 million Filipino students enrolled in public schools, and maintain its position as one of the world’s top outsourcing destinations for BPO and technology. With MOCHII BALL (Basic Algorithm Learning Language), schools can deliver quality computer science education – without the need for costly computer equipment – in three simple steps: Teachers deliver the lesson according to the MOCHII BALL curriculum and materials. On the workbooks that we’ll provide, students will write solutions to logic-based challenges, using the Basic Algorithm Learning Language (BALL) syntax. Teachers upload the handwritten onto the AI-powered MOCHII BALL app to interpret and execute the provided commands. This gives students the opportunity to build, test, and debug their code in an authentic fashion, bringing them close to the experience they might have in a computer lab and in the workplace. Interested in piloting BALL at your school? Contact me here or via The Purposeful Mochii page and join me in my mission of delivering quality CS education to all! © Mona Obedoza 2024, All Rights Reserved