Written by Hugh(현. 초5)/December 20, 2024
Distance learning filled with problems
By COVID 19, students should go home and be educated by distance learning. One of the major advantages of distance learning is that students need only a few materials. However, the shift to distance learning has revealed many problems. Students and teachers were very exhausted to do it. Distance learning does not benefit students because of student’s engagement and learning loss.
In the first place, distance learning does not benefit students because of increase of teacher’s work. First, for preparing class, teachers has to record videos, and there are more data than school classes. According to Taylor & Francis online, “the teacher augments prepared study materials by providing explanations, references, and reinforcements for students. Teachers should prepare many materials, so they were hard to prepare. It is a highly personalized process that converts newly acquired information into new insights and ideas.” If this continues, teachers will be stressed to do distance learning. And students could get effect by teacher’s stress. They can have less participation in online class. Class quality could plummet.
Next, distance learning doesn’t benefit students because of their engagement and learning loss. Students can be distracted by smartphones or games and do that. So, students cannot communicate with their teachers. Academic voices states that, “one of the challenges instructors had to face was the disengagement of learners. It has been reported that the main reason of high dropout rates is student engagement levels”. However, some people say that distance learning could increase student’s engagement. But, teachers couldn’t see all the students at the computer so they are easy to do something else. Students engagement and learning loss could lead to low scores after students take tests what they learned during distance learning.
In conclusion, distance learning does not benefit students because of students engagement and learning loss, and the increase of teacher’s work. In distance learning, teachers need many data than original classes, and students are distracted to phones or games and do it. When we do in-person learning, students participate well while learning to decrease teacher’s work.