"Unfamiliar" is the word that we can all agree when someone happens to ask us about the new set of learning we have right now. Reminiscing how we panic when we get up late in the morning, being anxious and frustrated because of traffic especially when your first subject teacher happens to be strict and terror, eating with our friends during lunch breaks, sharing our thoughts and experiences with our seatmates and being scolded by your teacher for being noisy. Those are just one of the many things that we all have been missing about school which is completely opposite of our status now. It feels different doesn’t it? Now that we have our new set of routines in preparing for school and new set of classmates that we can't even meet personally; we cannot help but to be more responsible for ourselves.
A student from grade 11 HUMSS shares about her thoughts and experiences of being an online student and how she copes up despite of the changes we all experiencing in the new normal of education.
Starting the day, she will get up in the morning around 5 am and do her morning routine such as taking a bath, brushing her teeth, eating breakfast and of course, making sure that she looks presentable enough for their meet to learn classes. Based on her, being presentable or cute in front of the camera is a must especially when there’s a cute guy among one of her classmates. Of course, who would want to look like a zombie in front of their crush, anyway?
Morning Classes starts at around 7 am. She arranges and readies her laptop and modules that she will be using in her online classes, positioning herself in her room in front of the table and wait for her teacher to announce their activities to answer or lessons to read for their Read-to-Learn. Meet-to-Learn will start around 8 am and for everyone, struggle is real.
Unnecessary background noises, especially the sound of chickens and the noises coming from the tricycles outside are frustrating that she cannot even focus but will remain cute in front of the camera anyway. Kidding aside, of course she makes sure that she will understand their lessons no matter what, because she only has herself now unlike in the past that she can just ask her classmates about their lessons that she cannot understand.
After Meet-to-Learn, around 9 am comes the activities they need to answer and submit to their teachers within the day. They will be applying now the things that they have learn during their R2L (Read2Learn) and M2L (Meet2Learn).
“It’s actually fine for me that we have 3 hours for every subject because not all students are able to understand a lesson by just reading, watching or listening to their teachers in just an hour. I’m happy that they are being more considerate about their students whether they will really understand the lessons”.
These routines will also go for her next subject until 1 pm in the afternoon, depends on how many classes she have in a day. Teachers will allow them to eat snacks whenever they feel hungry and that’s one of the best things about online classes. There are times that it will take about more than 2 hours facing her laptop and that makes her eyes hurt a little because of the radiation caused by her device.
Based on research, it is very common to experience a dull pain in exposed tissues, including the eyes, within 1-3 hours of the x-ray radiation exposure. All of the things that we have learn will go for nothing if we will not take care of ourselves, we must learn when to take a break and when to continue moving forward.
After attending her classes, after the long run, she will have her lunch with her family around 1 pm and after that, here comes one of the best thing is of course taking a rest. We all deserve to take a rest and be refresh from all of the things that we need to do. We will be more productive if we let our mind and body rest for a while.
After taking her beauty rest, around 4 pm, she will comply all of the activities that needs to be done and make sure that she will submit all of them at their exact due dates.
Being a student is not her only task to do, but of course she also needs to complete her duties as a daughter. Whether she likes it or not, she will at least wash their dishes in the sink that have been waiting for her all throughout the day, or sweep the dust that is waving at her since morning.
Around 6-8 pm, she will review her notes or modules of her lessons for tomorrow. Based on her, one of the things that online class taught her is to become more independent in learning. All of individuals have their own set of priorities, unlike in the past that she can just ask for help in her friends or classmates, she will rather choose to help herself because she knows that not all the time her friends or classmates will be free to teach her, and she knows that she can actually make it this time.
Night routines will take place after reviewing her lessons. Eating dinner, brushing her teeth and washing her face then finally lay herself down into her bed. A typical teenager who will be scrolling down thru her Facebook or Twitter, chatting with her friends and classmates, stalking her crush and stuffs that will took at least 1 hour. Around 10:30-11 pm, she will call it a day then set her alarm at 5 am for another day ahead.
Online learning is not easy as we all imagine. We have experience a lot of barriers such as slow internet or data connection, background noises, and even the gadgets we use itself. But if we look on the brighter side, there’s still a lot of inspirations we can use to go on. Some of us use their crushes as their inspiration on attending their classes or anything or anyone that we can hold on to at the end of the day.
If we really want something to happen, we must work on it. Let’s not be Juan Tamad who only waits for our guava to fall down right onto our mouth, let’s be someone who makes their dreams possible despite of hardships and continues to move forward.
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