essay on studying during the lockdown
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the middle of March, the corridors at the university where I teach began to empty out; classes were half-full. Anxiety levels rose in proportion to the quiet. A student in one of my seminars reported a rumour that face-to-face teaching had been cancelled. It turned out to be untrue, but we all kept checking our emails. Professors gossiped at a distance in the hallways, strangely cheerful, waiting for the inevitable. Then on Friday afternoon I looked around my office to see if there was anything I might need in case we didn’t come back – academic offices at the end of term have a kind of Vesuvius feel anyway. Marked-up lecture notes, attendance sheets, opened books, pension fliers, a plastic bag from an old packed lunch, lie scattered across the desk and chairs. Somehow, even at the best of times, you feel as if you’re leaving in a hurry, in mid-sentence.
Then on Monday morning, I was back on campus, getting ready to teach. My mother, who grew up in northern Germany and was seven when the Second World War ended, sometimes tells her students that you reach a point in your life when you realize that you are also a historical source – that future historians might want to ask you about what you saw and lived through. She teaches law and history but I sometimes use the line in my creative writing classes at the beginning of term. One way of thinking about what we’re doing here, I tell them, is that you want to figure out an answer to this question: of what kind of material am I a source? What have I been a witness to? Before that Monday’s workshop began, I handed around a few pages from Defoe’s Journal of the Plague Year, and we took it in turns to read the opening paragraphs:
It was the beginning of September, 1664, that I among the rest of my neighbours, heard in ordinary discourse that the plague was returned again in Holland; for it had been very violent there, and particularly at Amsterdam and Rotterdam, in the year 1663, whither, they say, it was brought, some said from Italy, others from the Levant … But it seems that the Government had a true account of it, and several councils were held about ways to prevent its coming over; but all was kept very private. Hence it was that this rumour died off again, and people began to forget it as a thing we were very little concerned in, and that we hoped was not true; till the latter end of November or beginning of December 1664 when two men, said to be Frenchmen, died of the plague in Long Acre, or rather at the upper end of Drury Lane …
I now began to consider seriously with myself concerning my own case, and how I should dispose of myself; that is to say, whether I should resolve to stay in London or shut up my house and flee, as many of my neighbours did. I have set this particular down so fully, because I do not know if it may be of moment to those who come after me, if they come to be brought to the same distress, and to the same manner of making their choice; and therefore I desire this account may pass with them rather for a direction to themselves to act by than a history of my actings, seeing it may not be one farthing value to them to note what became of me
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Good evening everyone today I will express my views on the first topic which is Education in 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic has created the largest disruption of education systems in history, affecting nearly 1.6 billion learners in more than 190 countries. Closures of schools and other learning spaces have impacted 94 per cent of the world’s student population. There is a lot of workload both on the teachers and the students, My mother who is also a teacher is constantly working hard to create a virtual classroom where children do not feel lonely and interact with their teacher and peers. If we compare the virtual classroom with the real classroom then it is observed that the children have more time to meet with their friends and teacher and more time for homework to be done in the classroom. Online classes may not be effective for the children who learn best though the face to face interaction or the hands on approach that is provided by teachers and peers while attending classes in the classroom environment but I found them effective for me as I was not facing any difficulties in understanding the concepts since our teachers were continuously sending worksheets and taking doubt solving classes so that we stay in our regular routine. There may be pros and cons of the online The children in rural areas are facing a lot of difficulties in attending online classes since they have limited devices and no network, The council has reduced our syllabus so that the children are able to cope up with the online studies and get themselves in routine. Online debates, elocutions and competitions are held so that the children are still engaged in extracurricular activities. This pandemic introduced us to many ed-tech and e-learning websites which were beneficial in making notes and helped in conceptual clarity. In my outlook studying in 2020 was different as it has taught me to be disciplined, more patient and to be more attentive, I have been able to adapt myself with the classes being online and have been sincere in attending my classes . I am thankful to my teachers and my parents to make things easy for me and hope to meet them soon amidst this pandemic/