Learning is not effective because online - offline

The policy of opening schools to ensure effective teaching and increase interaction for children … faces a great challenge when the number of children at home is increasing, today’s students learn face-to-face, tomorrow they have to go online.

After two days of going to school, from February 10, Dang Minh Nam (Hoang Cau, Hanoi) had to stay at home “study online” because his family had F0. Nam then also contracted nCoV, so he has been studying remotely for half a month so far.

The male class has 44 students, currently half go to school, the other half, including F0 and F1, have switched to online learning. Not only the number of F students is increasing, many teachers also have to isolate and teach online at home. Therefore, there was a Nam class with a live teacher in the class, but one day I was taught via Zoom by another girl.

Some teachers are not able to share the teaching screen for online games. They have to follow the lecture written on the board, through the recording device placed far away, so they can’t see clearly. Moreover, the F0 and F1 also rarely interacted, sometimes forgotten because she was busy communicating directly with her classmates. Network, glitches or lag also often interrupt the lesson.

After sitting next to an F0 in class, Nguyen Vinh Quang had to switch to online learning but was assigned a separate class by the school. A 12th grade male student in Cau Giay district, Hanoi, said that the school gathered all the F0 and F1 students in the block into one class, called A0, with the number ranging from 68 to more than 80 students.

Quang found it difficult to keep up with the new class because he did not know his friends, and the curriculum was different. For example, in Math he had only learned lesson 8 but A0 had taught lesson 9. To keep up, Quang had to borrow a notebook from a friend to copy. Moreover, teachers teaching A0 are not familiar teachers. “Study with familiar teachers, I understood the teaching style, so I grasped the lesson faster. While in A0, a subject can be taught by many people, making it difficult to accept,” Quang said. In addition, it is also a common problem of A0 students.

Quang class has 44 students but recently only 24-26 students went to school, the rest switched to A0. Quang has now returned to live classes after a negative test result, but he is always worried because he may have to go to A0 at any time.

In the context that Hanoi records more than 7,000 cases of Covid-19 per day, many schools have managed to organize online and offline learning: group F0 and F1 into a temporary class or send F students to study online with online classes. next. The situation of students going to school but teachers teaching online from home is becoming more and more popular. Inadequacies from this combined teaching model make many parents worried.

Nguyen Anh Duc, a parent in Thanh Xuan district, said that if students go to school but teachers have to isolate and teach remotely, learning is no different from online before. Instead of staying at home, children coming to class to talk or share equipment pose a higher risk of infection.

He commented that the separate classing for F0 and F1 “doesn’t solve the problem”. Students will have to learn with friends and new teachers, take time to adjust and lose interest in learning.

Sharing the same opinion with Mr. Duc, Ms. Do Thanh Giang in Ha Dong district finds it very “inconvenient” and “temporary” for Fs to study together. Ms. Giang said, her son’s school chose class A1 in the blocks as the cumulative class of F0 and F1. Class A1 learns directly, broadcast via Zoom by the school to all F of the classes.

The class got messy because other students joined in. It was difficult for teachers to control the children in class, now they have to keep an eye on arithmetic. Unaccustomed to the class and pace of study, Giang’s child lacks concentration and doesn’t even copy lessons because of boredom.

Ms. Giang is also a teacher at a high school in Hoang Mai district, used to have to stay at home to teach students online in class. Students lack learning equipment and do not have wifi, so they huddled together to share 4G. Many days, she had to give her students a break because they reported that their phones ran out of battery or ran out of 4G capacity.

According to Ms. Giang, learning “half, the other half” is not even as effective as learning completely online. If you study online, you will be able to control whether you open the microphone, turn off the camera, and see who lacks concentration. However, with the hybrid form, she cannot keep track of who is talking or doing private work.

Due to the fourth outbreak of the epidemic, from April 27 last year, the whole country has spent more than nine months at home, studying online. Assessing that online learning is ineffective, reduces social interaction, and has potential psychological and health consequences for students, the Ministry of Education and Training advocates “opening all schools” after Tet. However, with the increase in community infections after the Tet holiday, the number of school infections also increased sharply.

As of February 22, 13 provinces, with about three million out of more than 17 million students, had to stop direct teaching. Many localities such as Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City strive to remain open, causing schools to face “unprecedented pressure”.

Director of the HCMC Department of Health Tang Chi Thuong said that since February 14, there have been 7,505 school cases recorded, including more than 700 teachers and nearly 6,800 students. The industry intends to propose to the People’s Committee of Ho Chi Minh City to consider stopping face-to-face learning when the number of children with Covid-19 has severe symptoms and needs respiratory support, more than 100 cases per day.

In Hanoi, many principals admitted that the combined teaching model revealed many inadequacies and inefficiencies in the context of a sharp increase in infections. A survey of nearly 7,700 participants on VnExpress showed that 62% of respondents said that schools should switch to full face-to-face teaching in the context that the number of infections in Hanoi continues to increase.

Binh Minh – Manh Tung

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Learning is not effective because online – offline

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