NAME: EUSEBIO M. AMARILLE JR.

REACTION PAPER ON DISTANCE LEARNING

The pandemic has thrown the world into turmoil affecting all aspects of one’s
life. From economy, politics, to education, it has brought challenges and as well as
new perspectives, compelling all sectors to adapt to the ‘new normal’ conditions.
Hence, its effects have been dramatically felt by the educational sector, positing a
new notion how school should be amid the pandemic and the devastating typhoons
that ravaged the country.

As an educator, I could see how this abrupt shift affected the students. Most
of the students in public school are below the poverty line. They strive for meeting
their daily needs, normally, some would even skip school to help their parents look
for jobs. How much more with modular and online learning, where independent
learning is encouraged and an inability to drive students to continue learning despite
their economic conditions. In this new method, inequality has become more
pronounced while students grapple for resources at the expense of educational
continuity.

Additionally, there are a many of advantages to online learning. Flexibility is

one among them. After the coronavirus outbreak, this advantage motivated many
educators to switch to distance learning because e-learning enables students to
continue engaging in class without needing to be physically present. It can also
accommodate kids with particular needs because online education is constantly
modified to meet their needs. Managing numerous students' demands at once while
in a physical classroom makes it far more challenging to accomplish this. Third, it
does away with the burden of commuting to class. It might be difficult for both adults
and students to get to a physical location. Distance learning does not have a
problem with that. There are still many benefits of distance learning, but one that is
benefitable to us teachers is that, distance learning saves us time over the course of
the day, for me that is very helpful to all of us.