It’s been nearly a month since I started attending online video communication classes that the school has begun conducting. Other than some minute technical failures or a few network-related issues, classes have been going fairly smooth for young students like me. From very early morning till afternoon, I constantly remain confined within my room with the PC staring straight at me.
Stuck with an extremely tight, daily schedule, its near impossible find a moment of respite nowadays. With a daily routine comprising of immense school tasks, it’s quite distressing to feel the ‘long, lost’ fatigue of study life after a long period of boredom caused by the ongoing lockdown, that was initiated nearly 4 months back! Sometimes, after contemplating, I feel this quarantine is a bliss for some students, yet with such a wholesome online study routine and a limited time frame in hand now, it seems we are returning back to our ‘’old days’’.
Well, to be precise now, it is certainly a grave mistake to say that the distance-learning programme was an odd and wrong decision taken by various institutions. It is actually a positive approach for students to acquire knowledge using a platform, comparatively new in this country. Hence, this will allow pupils and teachers likewise in our country to get a firm grasp on up-to-date and contemporary online skills in this field. This is acting as a wise, short term alternative to traditional learning.
With only a very insignificant segment of our country having access to these facilities, it is hard to imagine this turning into a reliable and mainstream mode of learning, even in a couple of years.
However, transitioning suddenly to a totally distinct method of learning means we will have to confront various early challenges before fully adapting to the new scenario. With the recent spike in Covid-19 cases around the globe, the hope of returning back to our previous lifestyles is still a far cry according to the majority of analysts. Now, redesigning and adjusting is the only immediate, if not the long term, remedy in order to curb the appalling implications that have resulted due to this global outbreak. A ‘new normal’ is the only rational solution!
