Pros and Cons of Online Education This COVID19 Pandemic

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Being a classroom teacher then, now online self-help guide to my select and lucky angels, well, everyday hurdle continues to be tough, challenging and, sometimes, taxing for the psyche. Yes, not every my learners are capable to coping up simply because they don't have the needed technology like android cellphone, iPad, desktop, laptop or those educational tools many of the lucky few have.



Well, because of the said situation, I, first, feel that parents could take action worthwhile for their kids' education by exerting all efforts to experience a functional cellphone befitting an internet class. However, you can find varied reasons why some parents don't have the ability to provide their children such simply because of poverty, joblessness, insufficient education or motivation keeping up with current trends in education setup and delivery of learning especially this COVID-19 pandemic.

Anyway, there are pros and cons of distance learning, especially for blended learning, for youngsters and parents alike.

PROS

1. Kids can have the time navigating different applications around to be able to getting lessons absorbed, used in their daily grind.

2. Parents can easily see how their kiddos are using their learning time. They can help them budget time to be able to do all task taking place sans getting other tasks forgotten. Teachers, just like me, are sending home guide for his or her students, serving as reference, for their subjects to become taken for any specific time, with a variety of minutes included.

3. Kids can instruct their skills in employing the web, say in researching for the story to see, a picture to publish an essay on, and info about important events ever sold especially during holidays along with other commemorative exercises in Social Science subjects, to note one.

4. Parents have time to help you their kids using task in reading and writing, likewise the issues their children encountering in numeracy, science and so on.

5. Kids have also enough time to be more talkative in front of their camera or what while answering questions, sharing stories as well as other activities where speaking will be the target especially about how they go to town, with certainty without worrying about in person interactions.

6. Parents, mostly, have the opportunity to learn as well, type of having a writeup on their previous schooling; naturally, with updated info where irrelevant ones have been changed to appropriate one, particularly with Science subjects, say quantity of planets, and so on.

7. Kids in addition have a chance to become world citizens learning everything about the internet of products and collaborating along with other learners around the world. Yes, teachers have to have an associate teacher from another country, say a Science class in the Philippines co-learning with Science class in USA in regards to the different landscapes during wintertime, and, naturally the sunny weather from the Philippines. With videos, photos etc, both learners over these two countries could learn a lot from each slide presentation shared through Google Meet, Zoom meeting, among other technological tools befitting for this purpose.

CONS

1. Kids with no reliable internet connection remain behind in relation to online learning. However, with modules available around; well, all of us have to be able to learn the concepts, samples and deep learning each conscientious teacher implements enrichment or remediation programs if you're in need of those. Yes, creativity is vital toward providing all the learning opportunities to kids facing technological challenges in online learning. Aside from lacking those gadgets like android cellphone, lappie or desktop, internet load also becomes a hindrance, for that can afford such when parents are jobless, in dire poverty and you understand what.

2. Parents suffer stress much more when their kids could not keep pace making use of their peers, neighbors in competition with their kids, along with other scenarios about unequal opportunities, a sad reality majority during my class is assigned to this case wherein keeping with the Juans isn't feasible to perform.

3. Kids, those people who are enterprising and all sorts of, resort to online cheating. Yes, there is a group chat where solutions to modules are now being uploaded plus a lazy bone will undoubtedly copy paste those and viola, obtain the perfect score, the buzz later much like highest honors and the like. Oh my gosh, this sorry condition of education might be a proving ground for future leaders who won't do sane things but to self-aggrandizement, and so on.



There you go. If however, you be free of such challenges, you're fortunate enough coping track of all these challenges, and would emerge victorious having continuity of learning amid this trying time. However, grit, resiliency and perseverance, can be our savior when facing these glaring realities. Whatever challenges have been in our way toward teaching/learning journey, were always expecting the very best result through healthy effort. Keep head high, always. Keep safe, sane along with a saint. Cheers!

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