education

One particular aspect that can be examined is their education. 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. What probably persisted despite this remarkable technological progress, however, would be the problems children and teens face as traditional education options remain limited. As futurist Alvin Toffler would write, "All education springs from some image of the future. 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. One might dare say what we call "New Normal Education" is in practice more of the same, except they are now being done virtually via distance learning. "Education is not just something that happens in the head," Toffler writes, "Education springs from the interplay between the individual and the environment." There is still some sort of novelty in changing your learning environment from home to school, but if all lessons are handed down to a person at home, the variation narrows. Read more in our articles including "Growing up with Distance Learning: 5 Trials of the Covid Generation" and "DepEd allegedly bought Pentium 4 PCs for PHP400,000 each".