Quality education during COVID-19 pandemic

 

COVID 19 pandemic is considered as the most crucial global health calamity of the century and the greatest challenge that the humankind faced. It is the cause of breakdown through all people in the world. Large numbers of lives have been taken, many people are panicking of its widespread, medical kits and supplies for the people are gradually depleting. This has a huge impact to our society and especially on our education.

Prior to the plans on how to find a way to alleviate the disease caused by this pandemic. The Department of Education (DepEd) implemented a document that we should continue to study considering the crisis we are facing. Now, in our school we are currently conducting our study through what they call Online Distance Learning where you can choose whether Printed module or Online module via softcopy. The process of printed module is carried out by teachers classifying the modules whether it is set A or set B. The parent will pick up the module and after a week that their children finished answering, the parent will go again to return the outputs completed. This is also the way of online module where classifies as set A or set B but the process of giving module is through private messages and in this way also how students will submit their outputs. Sometimes we also bring our discussion through Google meetings.

 This type of learning is hard for people who can’t understand quickly and I can say that I am one of them because I can’t stand teaching myself alone. I’m used to rely on my teachers to understand lessons. Some students also are deciding to drop out for the reason that they cannot survive to study in this way. This quality of education is a great and effective way to continue schoolings because in this method it can lessen chances of people getting infected by the disease. But there are also negative effects of this type of learning. Cheating is unavoidable in school and this is habitual for students. How much more in online school? How can we tell that this is not possible? This is very prone because I think other students basically are only relying on their other classmates waiting for them to send answers. Hopefully, very soon they will finally find vaccine for this disease and eventually everything will go back to normal.

People have different levels of understanding. There are people who can easily understand and there are also people who are not. Hopefully very soon education and things will go back to normal. We can say that this COVID destroyed a lot of things and dreams. But for now, let us endure first and civilize ourselves on this new normal. The choice and decision rely on us and the spirit of learning is within us.

Citations:

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https://www.who.int/health-topics/coronavirus#tab=tab_1