Considerations, of means of learning, of how the epidemic changed the way students learn, the way teachers interacted with the students, and the adjustments needed, as school is about to resume the physical classroom sessions again, off of the Front Page Sections, translated…
In the past four, to five months, due to the outbreaks, the taken-as-natural means of going to school to learn, the government and the schools found the solution of “learning online”, and pushed forth the motto of “not in school, still learning”, this gave me way to online learning, and it’d, dramatically, become the star of this “show”, seemed that with the online learning means being set, the methods of education had, found a resolve during he time of the outbreaks.
After these few past months, the teachers, students, as well as the parents found, that distance-education, learning online, isn’t as, simple as they all imagined, some students were faced with the troubles of internet connection speeds not fast enough, and the stability of connections at home, and the learning environment, and other issues. The teachers, they’d had to redo their lesson plans, to record the videos of their teaching the lessons, adjust their methods of teaching the classes, the interactions between students and teachers, the evaluation of what’s learned became, the biggest challenges these students and teachers faced. The students are sitting in front of the computer all day long, trying their eyes so, they’d had to constantly adjust, readjust their mindsets, their physiological statuses, in the isolated environment, without the face-to-face interactions with the school teachers, and fellow students, how to maintain that level of high self-control, and self-management, it’s, a test for this, new way of learning.
The offices and teaching departments of the schools also need to rethink the pros and cons of the platform of learning that the schools had set up, because of the schedule, helping the instructors utilized the internet platforms, to teach and to evaluate their students’ performances. By observation, transitioning from the classroom setting to learning in front of a computer screen online, it’s nothing easy. But the coming on of the pandemic, forced the teachers and the students, to find a way to evolve, took that huge, step out.
transitioning from the distance-education means
The space of education post-pandemic for the instructors, the classrooms may no longer be a first choice; while the tools of learning for the students, no longer limited to the texts, the classrooms, and the one-way learning platform. The futures of education, whether it be location, space, time, tool, to the considerations of philosophies of learning and teaching, will see a never-before change. Other than the possibilities of MERS-CoV comeback, reducing the limits of the original means of education of in the classrooms, greatly increased the flexibility of learning, the in-time interactions too, and, can it become, an effective tool to help students learn better, it’s something we all expect to see.
During this time of learning online, the evaluation of what is learned, caused discussion of the various realms. In the past, the methods of evaluation on teaching in-class and the methods of assessments, but, in the learning-online, the evaluation methods also, need to, be honed up on. On the other hand, the evaluations of the school instructors, the assessments of their teaching by the school, also need to improve, and so, the schools would need to find a way for the more advanced plans to help the teachers connect to the post-epidemic era’s learning in the classroom settings.
Naturally, the key to all of this is for the governments and the schools to set up an ideal learning platform, the teachers and students are all expectant of a platform that’s cooperative, and individualistic, with the various instructors’ innovative teaching methods, and the tools to learn for the students, and other forms of online resources, guiding us into the digital learning era.
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What’s worrisome was what the UN’s national education organization’s pointing out that MERS-CoV had caused the schools to stop holding the physical classroom sessions for a year and a half to date, but, n the past two semesters, the repeated cycles of school in session, off session, causing the wear and tears in the learning means, and the dropout rates to get higher, this was especially hard-hitting on the students with less economic resources. The government and the schools need to help the dropouts, those who were forced to halt their own education, due to economics, who have a hard time, returning back to the school settings, to return to learning, and at the same time, analyze the impacts of online learning toward this group.
In the post-epidemic era, linking online learning and in-class learning is especially important, to utilize the resources online, to help the students continue to use the resources provided to them, to help them learn flexibly. There will be a new and innovative means to how learning online can evolve even more, post-outbreak.
And so, this would be the considerations, of how distance-education changed the way that students learn, how teachers teach, and now, as the outbreaks are slowly, contained, as students are about their, physical classroom sessions, what is to be taken from the learning from home, that can get carried over into the classroom learning sessions.
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