What are the Pros and Cons of Distance Learning This COVID Pandemic

In this time of trial, where everyone is trying to deal with different tasks, our mixed teaching / learning situation is now over a week.

As a classroom teacher and now an online guide to my carefully selected lucky angels, the daily hurdles are tough, rewarding and sometimes mentally burdensome. Yes, not all learners can handle it just because they don't have the necessary technology like Android phones, iPads, desktops, laptops, or educational tools that the lucky few have. ..

Well, given that situation, I can do something worthwhile to educate my kids by making every effort to get a functional cell phone suitable for online classes. I believe I can do it. But why some parents are not capable of providing children due to poverty, unemployment, lack of education, or the current trends in education and the provision of learning, especially the motivation to catch up with this COVID-19 pandemic. Is different. ..

Anyway, there are pros and cons for both children and parents, especially for blended learning distance learning.

Pros:

1. Children now have enough time to navigate various applications to absorb lessons and apply them to their daily work.

2. Parents can see how their child spends their study time. They can even help budget time to perform all the tasks at hand, without leaving other tasks behind. Like me, teachers send home guides for their students. This is to refer to the subjects taken at a specific time, including fractions.

3. Children can show their skills to use the internet. For example, you can find out stories to read, pictures to write essays, especially facts about important historical events during the holidays and commemorative exercises in other social science subjects. 1.

4. Parents have time to help their children in literacy work, as well as the difficulties they face in math and science.

5. Children also have time to talk more in front of the camera, answer questions, talk, and share other activities that target how the way they speak specifically express themselves. There is also.

6. Parents also have the opportunity to learn in a way that, in most cases, does a review of their previous school education. Of course, we will use updated information, especially when irrelevant things have been changed to more appropriate ones, such as scientific subjects, such as the number of planets.

7. Children also have the opportunity to learn everything about the Internet of Things and become a world citizen to collaborate with other learners around the world. Yes, teachers must have fellow teachers from other countries. For example, a science class in the Philippines will learn about different winter landscapes and, of course, the clear skies of the Philippines in collaboration with a science class in the United States. Using videos, photos, etc., learners in both of these two countries can learn a lot from each slide presentation shared through Google Meet, Zoom conferencing, and other technical tools suitable for this purpose. increase.

Cons:

1. When it comes to learning online, children are left behind without a reliable internet connection. However, modules are available. Well, when a conscientious teacher implements an enhancement or remediation program for those who need them, everyone has the opportunity to learn concepts, samples, and deep learning. Yes, creativity is the key to providing all learning opportunities for children facing technical challenges in online learning. Apart from the lack of gadgets such as android phones, rapies and desktops, the load on the internet is also an obstacle. Who knows who can afford it when parents are unemployed or in severe poverty?

2. Parents are increasingly suffering from stress when their children are unable to keep pace with their peers, when their neighbors are competing with their children, and in other scenarios regarding unequal opportunities. The vast majority of sad realities in my class are impossible to associate with Juan.

3. Enterprising children, and all children, resort to online fraud. Yes, there are group chats where the answers to the modules are uploaded, lazy bones copy and paste them and the viola, get the perfect score and will be recognized later as well as the highest honor. Oh, this disappointing state of education could be a training ground for future leaders, such as self-expanding, rather than doing sane things.

4. If the child does not master time management, discipline and honesty, the parent will bear all the burden. For example, review lessons before going online or answer modules in good faith.

5. Children have more time to stand by on the internet. Yes, some are good at navigating different sites and can be at great risk when opening dangerous websites that are inappropriate for mental age, rubbish your innocent mind and others Computational ability challenges that can be more harmful than destroying with ideology and helping to improve literacy.

6. Parents have a hard time answering the module, especially if they have 10 or more children within a week and 4 children with this kind of modality. Still, in online class, if one Android phone is available, how to do it at the same time when the low internet signal, load, and other challenges that exist in the house of desire are barely manageable. Can you participate?

please. If you happen to be free from such challenges, you are lucky enough to deal with all these challenges and will win by continuing to learn during this time of trial. But grit, resilience, and patience can be a blessing of our salvation when faced with these obvious realities. No matter what the challenges of our education / learning journey, we always look forward to the best results through our best efforts. Always keep your head high. Be safe, sane, and protect the saints. cheers!