distance learning

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) in 2020 observed that over 90 percent of nations have implemented some form of remote learning policy. Taking this global trend into consideration, Department of Education (DepEd) Secretary Leonor Briones may say that blended or distance learning is "not inventing anything new," but there were definitely changes between teaching in the 1940s and teaching in the 2020s. Some may like to romanticize the experience as merely opening your phone or computer on and off every scheduled session without the need of wearing something elegant or taking a bath, but devices do not always run in peak performance for your distance learning purposes. Eye strain and sleep deprivation are only a few of the possible consequences from having to deal with online classes and distance learning on a regular basis. If the image of the future held by a society is grossly inaccurate, its education system will betray the youth." It may not be an across-the-board observation, but some may attest to how the workload increased along with the inevitable shift towards distance learning. The educational system, with which some still follow the industrial model of curriculum-centered standardized learning, has not been reformed enough to match the quickening technological pace. Read more in our articles including "Growing up with Distance Learning: 5 Trials of the Covid Generation" and "McDonald’s opens select branches as McClassroom for teachers".