![]() Chapter 8 Prompt: Reflecting on your experience with the following subjects, (language arts, mathematics, history, science, music), which ones do you think would be adaptable for distance education and which ones would not? Why? Would there be a difference in adaptability depending on grade level? While I think that all subjects independent of grade level can be adapted for distance education, the larger question is SHOULD all subjects and grade levels be adapted for mass distance education. When I say, “mass distance education”, I am referring to distance education for the majority of school age children. Additionally, I should quantify normal distance education to a non-pandemic era. Socialization is a key component of school, especially for younger school-age children, and education should take place in-person as much as possible. All subjects and grade levels need to have a distance education component on an as-need basis for individual students, such for students with health issues, so that these students can keep up with their education and connect with others as much as possible. The COVID-19 Pandemic is not a normal time nor place, and educators are trying to construct a new version of distance learning that is unprecedented and in constant flux. There is no right or easy answer to address the challenges that educators have faced since March. In terms of subjects and adaptability, there are subjects that are easier and more inclined for distance learning than others. The social sciences are more easily adaptable than math and the arts (Visual art and music), in my opinion. I have taken many online classes in higher education (both undergraduate and graduate), and the most difficult online class I have ever taken was Statistics. I have to preface my difficulty with the fact that I am not mathematically inclined in the first place. It was an asynchronous class with no direct interaction with my classmates nor teacher. We taught ourselves through an online-statistics, interactive platform and a textbook. I just did not digest the same amount of information in this online class as I have in non-distance education math classes. The only reason that I took it in this format was because it was the only means offered. Distance education may be more reliant on the students rather than how adaptable the subject is, which harkens back to the issue of multiple intelligence and methods of learning individual to students, in my opinion.
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