MAY 4 — E-learning remains an enigma. On one hand, during this movement control order (MCO) we don’t have any choice but to go online and most likely learning from home is the future. Having said that, after conversations with some people (including students), you do wonder if...
ByMAY 4 — E-learning remains an enigma. On one hand, during this movement control order we don’t have any choice but to go online and most likely learning from home is the future.
1. For physical classrooms, being present and face-to-face with the teacher is the given; with e-learning, This sorta makes attendance-taking rather superfluous. Yes, of course, there’s always the issue of “reporting” to parents that “your child was present during the class.”But let’s all agree it’s less than ideal.
One popular phrase in education today is"flipped learning." This belongs to a family of phrases — like"active learning","personalised learning", etc. — in which, long and short, the student begins to take charge of his or her own education. then e-learning should make both the teachers and students look less like teachers and students and more like a project team.
You know what’s the only thing worse than having to sit inside a classroom for five hours? It’s having to stare into a Zoom screen-grid for the same duration of time. Yet, isn’t this precisely what many of our school kids are being made to do?
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