Difficult to Maintain Interactions Through Distance-Education Means, the Children Loved, Carry on in Conversations Before Classes Start, as There are Only Three Screens Remaining in School, the Students & Instructors are All Tightened Up

How the distance-education means had, affected the way the students interacted with one another, how the teachers interacted with their classes, and the exchanges with the parents too, off of the Front Page Sections, translated…

The Distant-Education Means Make it Hard to Become Interactive with the Class, the Children Loved Chatting with Each Other Before the Online School Sessions Start

The outbreak made the distant-interaction means entered into our daily lives.  In the classroom settings, a lot of instructors used the “life of three screens”, but, with the cell phones, the laptops, and the iPads all turned on, the instructors are still having a hard time to make sure of the attendance rate, as well as the reactions to the lesson and both students and instructors stated, that distance-education means had, totally, defeated the efficiencies of, learning, and it’d made the teachers more anxious, the students feel, lonelier than ever.

Lee, who’s the secretary of the National Teachers’ Guild told that the “three screens” are the start of the helplessness she’d felt, of the online learning means, she’d used her cell phone to get the LINE messages from her students, the parents, the laptop for the slideshow she teaches with, and the iPad is used with the Google Classroom software, to know if the students are, paying attention in class.

But she’d told, that although she had the three cameras all turned on, but some of the students didn’t turn on their cameras, or that didn’t zoom the cameras in on their faces, or even, not known how to use the devices, and not showed up for classes, “it was most anxious for me that first week we had to start teaching and learning online”, that she’d worried often, that she couldn’t get her hands on the whereabouts of her classroom full of, students at all times.

She also noted the loneliness of children in the distance-education means.  Lee recalled, toward the end of the term, the children started getting more and more engaged in the minutes before class was to start, used their mics to chat, and, someone even named someone else to talk to.  And, the subjects of their conversations are, unrelated to school, but she’d felt, that the students needed the time to interact with each other, to maintain that connection as a whole class, in the limitations of their, environment.

The outbreaks changed the interaction means between the instructors, the students and the parents, and, it’d made all of them, more tense.  A doctoral teaching assistance in Poli-Sci University told, that a student turned on the webcam as he walked around, the cars, the sound of the wind all went into the classroom, and the instructor wondered, “why are you coming to my lecture like you’re listening to a podcast?”, the students had a ton of troubles, complaints about it too, that no matter where they are, in their dorms, at the café, they couldn’t, get away from the distractions from around them, it was hard to find that complete quiet space to learn.

An elementary school parent told, that as the epidemic started growing again, almost every class in the school set up a LINE group as a class, for the sake of communications, but, there were also parents, who’d openly complained, on the public platform, about the teacher, it’d gotten the other parents to join in, and this gave the instructors more pressures.

And so, this, is the pros and cons, of the distance-education means, and, that’s what the outbreaks brought to us, and, as things are slowly improving, the country’s going back to holding the physical classroom sessions, and the lessons are still there, to be learned, from the distance-education means, because, nobody knows, when the outbreaks are going to hit hard again.