Try to envision this in your mind, a package-deal university delivered to your doorsteps demanding your so-called ‘home’ to be the new four-cornered classroom. Hold up, you do not have a choice.
In this situation, many students bend their knees – much like their professors – to adapt to this virtual learning environment. At the least number of individuals, it’s a piece of crack, or perhaps even welcome, to handle such change in their daily routine. That is dependable on a list of factors.
Given this unlucky situation, the Philippines had never made its way to the middle in racing its internet connectivity in the world. Whether you live with a classy luxurious LED-powered keyboard or under a tarpaulin in a hilltop situation, we are not eventually free from the struggle of ‘no internet connection, please try again.
Students who come back to their homes, which cannot be understood by all, is another factor to consider. Numerous students have chaotic homes, stuck up with all the members of the family who have been also forced to work or attend school remotely.
This puts a strain on the internet capabilities as well, which further dampens the educational potential of these online courses.
To an extent, for those students who have found college as an escape from unfortunate home lives, they would ring in themselves dealing with the burden of college courses, together with their complications in the family, which probably lead to a vast amount of headaches or worst-case scenarios, stress.
On the other side of the screen, the adaptability of the professors should similarly partake in consideration. This academic crisis intake is not for them to blame, considering they are not tech-crafty enough to grab a big step in swallowing all complaints. Same as the students’ situation wherein they have been swaddled in the flame of digital learning.
While it is not the educators’ or students’ fault, their incapability to provide and create adequate online content impedes the learners’ potential.
College courses are quite impossible to translate fully all the lessons to an online platform, as professors or other evaluators, even themselves, need to be physically present to spell out their work accurately.
We now rely on ourselves for the internet and educational resources that otherwise would have been at our disposal. And as we all take part and grasp straws ineffectively, the blame is for no one to soak up.
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