Currently, there are different life situations that are still stopped, they say that every house is a world, and that is true, inside lifestyles, personality styles and relationships of different kinds develop, among other things, among the various new realities of the last months is distance education.
There are people who change schedules, eat too much, become unproductive, disorganize and get lost during isolation; others are stiffer: they set and follow meal and sleep schedules, maintaining the routine.
- The isolation of recent months has also affected people living alone.
- Making them live in a very special way.
- In any case.
- With or without children.
- Alone or accompanied.
- The crisis caused by coronavirus is absolutely subjective.
- Like all experiences.
Containment has forced the lifestyle of older people, but also younger people, who have gone from school to distance education to continue taking courses, but what does distance education really mean?
Technology, which has always been criticized by adults for promoting a sedentary lifestyle, lack of communication and a tendency to isolate themselves, has now become a fundamental element to communicate without leaving home, thanks to technology, while the body remains motionless, the mind can be in different places.
As a university professor, the virtual world has always helped me teach in other countries or provinces without having to travel, but today it is happening more than ever. Currently, virtual classes are critical to continuing the school year.
The truth is that distance education is something else, although it has recently been adopted, it has already created countless conflicts between parents and children and between parents and teachers.
On the one hand, there are families with one, two or more children at different levels of primary education, and the more children there are, this is partly because not all houses have more than one. Computer.
Thus, parents end up angry that their children do not know who should prioritize the use of the computer, or that teachers put classes in different courses at the same time. Conflicts also arise because children discuss with each other who should use the computer first. Conclusion: chaos enstes.
A great help (which does not happen) would be to improve the organization of the courses, ensuring that the course schedules are the same for all children, for example.
Another not least detail is that most parents belong to a generation that has not grown up with the computer and are therefore unfamiliar with technology, so many children teach their parents to surf the Internet.
Many of these kids end up making their parents feel inferior because they only know how to use Word, a little Excel and, of course, Facebook, not even Instagram, which creates a generational conflict.
But the problem doesn’t end there. Schools were not prepared to adopt distance education, so overnight they had to organize to continue the courses they started in person.
As a result, the school whose parents were satisfied became chaotic, not only because they need to navigate the networks to convey knowledge, but because they navigate the uncertainty and disorganization of the attempt to organize classes and, in doing so, reduce chaos.
According to learning platforms, parents face names they have never heard before: Jitsi, Webinar, Sakai, Moodle, Ed Mode and, of course, Zoom, the king of all programs.
And not only that, the school had to learn how to use each of these programs and then teach teachers, so that they could teach parents and do the same with their children Throughout this chain it is impossible for problems not to arise!
Therefore, students must learn not only the content of the subjects, but also use these learning platforms, furthermore, they must teach their own parents or even their own teachers, not to mention the written assignments that must be submitted to the platform. .
Faced with this situation, disoriented parents try to guide disoriented children, as well as disoriented teachers who try to guide the disorientation of parents and their students, the curious thing is that the disoriented ends up disorienting everyone, including himself.
To all this we add the difficulties of connecting to the Internet, and everything is heading towards explosive chaos, in addition to having to do the work, children also want to play, jump, talk, throw stuffed animals on the carpet, use the tablet. , play video games, etc. Meanwhile, parents become more sullen and bigoted because they are exhausted.
Please stop! Because if you don’t stop the chaos, it’ll dominate you. To restore order, you must organize and set limits.
You do what you can and if a task can’t be done, teachers and the school need to understand the situation. It’s a special moment in life, absolutely private.
Remember that the stress of living in quarantine is aggravated by the stress of distance education for children, so reducing it means delaying and slowing down to improve the learning process, and we are not talking about learning academic content, we are talking about adapting to this new online system.
Don’t pretend to be a cyberspace genius, a YouTuber, a chef, an intellectual or a super dad.
In this historical moment, you simply have to learn to be tolerant, not to demand more of yourself and simply to be yourself to build a better life, because then you and your children will be better.