distant learning

On the 23 of March, we started studying from home due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The government issued the order “work from home” making schools and businesses closed down. To run our distant learning, we used a video conference application called zoom. We also used google classroom to distribute the projects and assignments the teacher wants to assign to us however working from home allows our parents to watch how we students work. As students, most of us procrastinate on our work which is a problem as now parents are complaining to the school that our workload is too little making the student’s, who actually do not procrastinate, life harder as now when they try to finish one work 2 more assignments start piling up. This also affects the students who procrastinate as when they want to work last minute, they have to do more. Most of our teachers would give like one big assignment to do that may take the whole week to do but i try to not procrastinate and i think its unfair that the parents think we don’t have enough work because just doing one of the assignment may take me a whole day to do.

The main problem being that my internet connection is occasionally very weak, this makes it hard to learn and sometimes can’t make the deadlines. Especially during the first few days of the new education system they implemented I was outside breaking the rules in Bali for a week making me unable to keep up with the lessons during those few days. Not only do i miss the lessons, there is the risk of catching the virus outside as Bali doesn’t really seem to care that there is a pandemic. They still go out and circle the cities and still interacting with people. It’s as if they are not scared of getting sick. But there are benefits to studying from home. I get to sleep longer than usual, waking up 5 minutes before the start of class which is a benefit since working till late at night causes me to lack sleep.