The affects of covid-19 pandemic on education

Everyone in the world knows and is terrified of the global pandemic that started happening in 2019. It has already killed millions of people around the world and now it’s still there, just out of danger. As at first, doctors have found a vaccine to fight this dangerous virus. It seriously affects all aspects of human life, not only at the individual level but also at the national level. The influence of the economy, technology, and more, and especially education, is said by some to be starting to change. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused both unprecedented disruption and major changes to education. However, when schools reopen, these changes may disappear.

Depending on their level and course and their place in their programs, students have experienced the COVID-19 pandemic in a variety of ways. There are people who are nearing the end of one stage and beginning to move on to another, such as high school students who have just graduated and are beginning to prepare for the transition to college, or from college to standard. been looking for work. They will face many different challenges. Teachers cannot evaluate in a really good way and cannot end the curriculum in the usual way. Students who transfer to higher education later this year will not be able to receive an offer to take the end-of-year exam.

However, the changes or innovations that occurred in the immediate days and weeks when COVID-19 struck are not necessarily the changes education needs to make in the face of massive societal changes in a post-COVID-19 world. By and large, the changes were more about addressing the immediate and urgent need of continuing schooling, teaching online, and finding creative ways to reach students at home rather than using this opportunity to rethink education. While understandable in the short term, these changes will very likely be considered insubstantial for the long term.

The pandemic forced schools to close, forcing teachers, children and adults to do the job of education in completely different situations. The short term here is to solve the problem of the learning environment of students and teachers, which is the best place for education. In the long term, it does not solve future educational problems. Instead, distance learning makes students lazy, instead of using search engines to learn, they use it to find answers, almost all questions at high school always has answers on google, not direct, but somewhat more than 80% correct. It is also because there is no control from teachers on online meeting platforms, causing students to increase the rate of cheating on their assignments. Instead of studying the exercises to prepare well for the test, they choose not to study anything, just open google and check the answers, or watch the notes to get a high score.

However, the changes or innovations that occurred in the immediate days and weeks when COVID-19 struck are not necessarily the changes education needs to make in the face of massive societal changes in a post-COVID-19 world. By and large, the changes were more about addressing the immediate and urgent need of continuing schooling, teaching online, and finding creative ways to reach students at home rather than using this opportunity to rethink education. While understandable in the short term, these changes will very likely be considered insubstantial for the long term.

Even those who are in the middle find it difficult when they don’t know what they will do before they finish the course, everyone is worried about long-term loss.
Since then, the problem of switching back to online learning through online meeting platforms such as google meet, zoom, … to help both teachers and students. Most people agree that it is the best option during the epidemic, and they think that distance learning should be maintained. But this is completely wrong when the translation is gone, and it has huge consequences for students. Although the combination of traditional and online methods has proven to be the best solution for students to improve their communication skills and become more computer savvy. The significance of technology is more defined in the educational setting. But everything has two sides, it also negatively affects students a lot.

For individuals who are accustomed to teaching in real-time classroom settings, utilizing asynchronous learning is the most crucial transition. Most learning and teaching activities don’t require participants to talk at the same time. Asynchronous working enables students to balance the demands of home and school while giving teachers freedom in creating learning materials. Teachers can schedule online sessions for students with specific needs or questions and periodically check on student engagement. Teachers and students have more breathing room when asynchronous learning environments are created.

While it may be easier for institutions and classes to be taught in the classroom or on campus, it may be easier to return to the way it was, but the things the education system and government have done so well in preparing for learning during a global pandemic, and the consequences of covid-19 will leave a lasting mark. It partly helps the education of different countries to be more diverse and flexible in terms of time and place of study to help students return to the right learning path.

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