Pandemic: How did it affect Education?

Enhance Community Quarantine is about people staying in quarantine in order to control the spread of the pandemic and reduce the pandemic from spreading more by the use of being in quarantine in addition of using this as an advantage to stop the wide-spread of this dreadul virus. As long as people follow the rules given by the government, it’ll make things easier and create a big help in erasing the pandemic. The system of education changed drastically since the impact of the pandemic affected our education causing a disruption or delay in the continuation of face-to-face classes and the government agreed to conduct the usage of online and modular class which are now considered as the new system of education.

This new system is now considered to be harder because of the lack in materials that are given in students and some students cannot afford basic necessities just to attend a class in online meeting. Modular then existed yet the probability of Modular classes lasting longer is getting narrower because of the continuous numerous ECQ. But because of this, this gave students the will to still study despite the pandemic, it is still a challenge to some students and here are some examples onto which we can state that online and modular can be a challenge to students; Challenge impose to students since some students lack the materials to use such as devices, gadgets and even internet to use. Students sometimes restrict themselves from expressing their thoughts because they are shy or afraid of being mistaken and embarrassed. That’s why even though this new system is a great help, it is giving students a little bit of a hard time. In my opinion, Traditional use of classes is still the best way to have classes instead of our new system of online and modular classing because there more advantages in classing face to face than having discussions through online, moreover, some students may lack materials such as gadgets and internets to use which can cause a disruption to the plan of online classing. Although the government is giving away essential needs, it will still cause an unfamiliar taste of discussing and this can cause them to lose focus and not understand some topics discussed much. In traditional classes, every students are free and able to understand the discussion clearly because they are present to ask question and give their own opinion and the teacher is present to explain to make them understand things, this is the advantage of traditional classes, wherein students can openly give out their outlook on the discussion and not be afraid of telling opinion when using online class.

                After looking at the negative effects of this new system, we must still be thankful for all the teachers that are working hard in order to educate us in spite of this pandemic, instead of us nagging about how hard our modules is, we should be thankful. Although government should still address those who are suffering such as loss of family members or those who are poor. Studying is a need but staying safe is a priority.

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Elizabeth P. "There's a Difference Between and Isolation: What you should know" (July 27, 2020). Retrived from, https://www.healthline.com/health-news/covid19-quarantine-isolation-differences-guidelines

Meris S. "Home School on Quarantine. Home Education to avoid Virus Disease, Online education concept". August 10, 2020. Retrieved from, https://www.christenseninstitute.org/blog/revisiting-blended-learning-principles-with-school-plans-in-limbo/home-school-on-quarantine-home-education-to-avoid-virus-disease-online-education-concept/