We are currently facing a pandemic, a health crisis in our country. COVID-19 pandemic has led to a dramatic loss of human life worldwide and presents an unprecedented challenge to public health, food systems and the world of work. Millions of people are at risk falling into extreme poverty. But that’s not all, the pandemic also affected educational systems worldwide, leading to the near-total closures of schools, early childhood education and care services, universities and colleges. Most governments decided to temporarily close educational institutions in an attempt to reduce the spread of COVID-19. As adapting to our new environment, because we are unsure when will this end, they started to implement a new studying technique,blended learning,which now we call it the New Normal In Education. I’m a student and I can confidently tell that the old education system is far more effective and easier for the students because of the satisfaction of guidance from the teachers. Not all people can adjust to our new normal because everybody is different, but I think everyone is still trying their best, which is a signal that we need to help each other.We are all struggling and participating properly to our classes means a lot especially to the teachers, I know that we can’t understand each other sometimes, the main reason why we also need to give some feedbacks or thoughts to our teachers for them to know what they need to improve so that nobody will get left out. After more than a year since this pandemic started, the vaccines arrived in our country and some of the Filipinos are already vaccinated that’s why Dep-ed decided that if we wanted to have a face to face classes again, it should be required that you need to be vaccinated first for your own safety because the pandemic in our country is not yet over. Other than that, I think the education during this pandemic had a lot of disadvantages like minimal social interaction, distance learning offers little interaction between students and teachers, little support, accessibility to some students may be a problem, requires self-motivation which is hard for most of the students because we are tired of these piles of unending homeworks. This new normal drained and gave us some emotional and mental issues which is hard but we are trying our best to blend in because we have no choice, but hopefully we can get through this pandemic together and have a proper education.
References:
https://data.unicef.org/topic/education/covid-19/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_of_the_COVID-19_pandemic_on_education
https://voxeu.org/article/impact-covid-19-education
This pandemic had really affected us students and it wasn't really easy to self study especially in our homes. There is so many distractions and interruptions going on within our homes and we can't focus on studying. But your right hopefully we can get through this pandemic and have a proper education again!
ReplyDeleteYou are correct. I truly hope that we will be able to return to our normal lives, as distance studying may be quite difficult for myself and other students.
ReplyDeleteI agree, the dramatic change of ways of education effects all of students and teachers because of our unpreparedness of the pandemic. We need to adapt to the new normal of education in order to continue our studies.
ReplyDeleteIndeed! Education is a big problem these days because of the pandemic. It is hard for us students to study alone in our shelter. I hope that we can get through this pandemic and see each other's faces again. Goodluck and keep safe!
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