E-Learning: Are you happy with the switch?
With the March 16 switch to e-learning due to COVID-19, the North Star News team asked students for their opinions after one week of e-learning.
- I hate it. I have no motivation to do the work and I’m surrounded by distractions that just seem more important for me to do. I feel that when it comes to schoolwork I’ve been institutionalized to the way of working in a classroom with a teacher. I hate e-learning.
- I enjoy having more control over the order of my own classes (in terms of order), and being able to follow my own learning pace.
- It is great that we are taking safe measures to protect ourselves from covid-19. I’m afraid of school resuming because there might be a higher chance that the virus could spread. Even though symptoms are small, they could still be passed to others so that’s the scary part.
- I can’t keep up with the work.
- Most of the material is busy work
- It’s not like it’s hard or anything, I feel like I’m just receiving more work than usual and also that I’m getting nothing out of it; I’m not learning anything.
- E-learning is helpful for me because all my classes are using Google Classroom. With all my homework all in 1 place, I don’t have to go too far to start my next assignment. But outside the terms of e-learning, I really dislike the fact that we are all isolated in our own homes.
- It’s hard to concentrate on assignments. Some things could be better, some things could be worse. It’s good that we get to keep learning, though.
- Being at home is fine for a few days, but after a while I miss my friends and getting out of the house everyday. School is a way to be social and see people, so I really miss that. But it’s nice to not wake up so early all the time.
- Most of us have been used to learning in a direct student-teacher classroom away from home, so it is very new to us to experience e-learning. Staying at home also makes people think they can just slack off and sleep or use their phones. They also miss interacting with their friends in person. I am in theater and foreign language classes, so direct teacher-student interaction is essential.
- Helps me with time management.
- I have too much to do at home and all my teachers are giving my hours upon hours of homework. If I don’t understand the material then I’m screwed. My Spanish can’t improve if I don’t use it. My stress has only increased.
- It’s inevitable so I can’t complain.
- I can’t learn while sitting in front of a screen all day. I need real interactions with people to truly catch onto concepts.
- I like e-learning because I can finish all my assignments on my own time .. however I do wish things could go back to normal.
- I like it because we get to stay home and wake up at later times but what I don’t like is that some teachers don’t explain things well and it’s just hard to communicate. Also I miss seeing friends every day.
- It’s harder for me to understand things when not taught from a teacher.
- I am not motivated to do work. It’s harder to think and get work done when you can’t go to a library or anything to focus on getting work done.
Betty • Mar 30, 2020 at 8:41 pm
It’s harder to understand what the teachers are teaching us at times. We get more work at home than in school and it’s hard to keep up with at times. It’s very overloading. I’d say I’m okay with it.