Dear Spring 1102 Students,
Welcome to our class blog. For the next few weeks, we’ll use this space to discuss our readings, discuss some of the larger issues of the class, and share our work with each other.
For each blog post you’re assigned, follow directions for it in the Weekly iCollege module. See “Blog Post Week 10” in WEEK 10 module for how to get started, possible ideas, and expected length. Your first blog post will be a response to Sean Michael Morris’ “Pivot To Online: A Student Guide.”
The fact that a lot of students will be left astray, unemployed, and/or homeless was the most striking information from Morris. Maintaining communication with teachers and students is very essential at a time like this. One key element Morris expounded on was the act of being kind to one another. No one was prepared for this event at all so helping each other is what will get us through this time. In this current time, the school year is almost over. A midst coming back from Spring Break, many students don’t want to be doing school work. The focus and attention of remaining safe and healthy are what most students believe should’ve happened instead of going into online teaching.
Everyone around the world isn’t ready for this new shift. Accessibility to a reliable internet connection is going to be hard for most people to attain. Unemployed students are now wondering how to make up for lost time and money. Bills, rent, food, and plethra of other necessities and responsibilities hold a lot of burden over students. Morris provides key information to both teachers and students on how to get through this rough period. Each bit of information connects to the other. In this time of crisis, remaining strong-minded and focused on everything around us will lead everyone to a better mental and physical state.
The blog post Pivot to Online by Sean Micheal was a well written post with a lot of good eye-opening information. I agree with what is being said in the article. It helped give me a better understanding about what is going on around the world during quarantine. It helps shows that majority of college students are going through the same problems and endeavors during this global pandemic. Online school is already challenging as is and switching mid semester is even harder. Everybody learns different as some will excel or have no problem with the switch. Other hands on learners or people who need to be in a classroom to focus and have a schedule won’t have such an easy time with the switch. Another problem addressed in the blog is the pandemic making colleges force students to move out and go back home. This can be a problem as everybody cannot go home and everyone is not in a good living environment. Some students use college as a getaway from toxic home environments. Something that stood out to me was that 30% in rural and 70% in urban in California, one of our biggest states, have internet access. Yet, school is a requirement as you must attend. Blog post is connected to what we are discussing in class as it goes over some of the struggles college students face. Not everything is going to work, we are all going through this tough times together student and teacher alike. We must have patience and utilize each other, and all the resources offered to get through this together and as quickly as possible. So as Morris said, be forgiving.
I agree with you in that he definitely gave another perspective on the situation. Everyone keeps saying “we are all in this together” talking about health and safety, but he brings it into a different light. He mentions that us students and teachers across the country and even the world will get through this strange turn of events. I do feel very bad for the students who were living on campus because for anyone moving from your so thought of home has to be upsetting. And what about the students who don’t have healthy or quiet living spaces back home.I agree with both of you were as this is going to be a learning process and we need to have patience.
This was a very eye-opening article. I feel like Morris did a very great job at helping students to try to adapt to the new changes. Morris pretty much sums up a lot of the issues that students are facing or may start to face with classes moving online. I enjoyed the section of the article where Morris is trying to tell his audience that they should try their best to communicate with their professors and let them know what they can and cannot do. I say this because many students often would rather not speak to their professor. Some students just try their best to succeed without communicating to their teacher about what issues they are facing. Morris is trying to tell his audience that now is not the time to not be communicating with our professors because they cannot help us if we do not reach out especially since we are not meeting periodically in person. This article talks about the common issues that students are starting to face. After providing the issue Morris gives a resolution that would help both the students and the teachers to try and keep classes running as smoothly as possibly. I think that Morris did a really good job of trying to touch on as many issues as possible to try and give his own advice on the best way to solve the problem. I believe that Morris is just really trying to get students to reach out and communicate with their professors because in times like this we should keep communication at a all-time high. Students who may have been able to “get by” in classes by just pushing through all of their issues might find it a lot harder to keep that mindset. Morris feels the same urging students to tell their professors of any issues they may be facing.
I completely agree with everything you said about Morris throughout his article. He puts into great detail the importance of making the best of the situation we are currently living through at this time. No one expected this to happen but with hardship comes adversity. Adjusting to a new way of teaching and learning may be easier for some students more so than others. Morris’s list of suggestions from his article points out that students and teachers should be kind in their communication with one another in this time of crisis. Yes, this is an unexpected time to be in at the moment but we are still in control of our education.
This article listes the real situation that many students and teachers have to face, and also gives many suggestions and solutions. I think the most impressed me is that I did not think that so many people would face such a stressful situation, and the residential, working and academic network would be a challenge for them.When I see there will be seventeen percent of the homeless, I have some doubt my eyes. Everyone is impossible to predict the trend and development of the coronavirus, who also don’t know the degree of the serious, nobody knows when it will disappear, and the number of people and families who affected by the coronavirus are also can’t imagine.I think what is said in the article is quite right. We should be patient, help each other and tide over difficulties.
I think the author Morris makes very good points and has a good understanding of what’s happening in the world and how it effects us students and teachers who have to transition to school online. It is a rocky road considering that students who enrolled in face to face classes will have to adapt to the new norm and teachers who might not be certain how to teach the same material through online. So far, my professors have been able to adapt pretty well in my opinion, but I can’t speak for all the other thousands of students. Even with the help of my teachers it is still a harder learning process for me as I’ve never done only online classes.
Here’s what I think, It kind of amazes me how unprepared we were as a country for this pandemic. Of course other countries were surprised by the hit of the virus, but the U.S had the time to prepare for it spreading here. It has taken way too long, specifically in Georgia, for people to take this seriously. Only until the numbers and death toll were so high that people couldn’t ignore it any longer. I very much agree with you in that right now should be a time to help and aid our families, but hopefully the work load isn’t too much to where we are stuck on our computers all day.
I agree with your whole post and really like your use of the phrase “rocky road” to describe the hardships faced by college students everywhere but what really stood out for me was in your second paragraph when you said it amazes it you to see how unprepared we, as Americans were/are. It really is amazing when you think about how unprepared we are when we had time to prepare for it. I completely agree with you and believe people need to take this pandemic way more seriously, but many won’t until they truly see how bad it has gotten.
This article made me realize how stressful this virus is for students and teachers, especially the teachers since they never experience a situation like this before throughout their teaching career. There is some student that has their own reasons they do not want to go home, like they are not accepted or may have family problems, or something a bit more serious. I never thought that for them staying at college is better than at their own house. This made me think a lot about the whole situation. Another thing that got my attention was how Sean Michael Morris explained the situation of some students that they may have stress and anxiety with all of these big changes especially when they had jobs at their colleges and lost it due to this virus. These students cannot find another job at all, since this is getting more and more serious. But after talking about these topics Morris then talks about how to handle some of these problems, staying in touch in many different ways, ask your peers for help, if you have any problems with things at home, you can talk to your school about it. But one thing I wish that he could talk about is how much distraction there is while the student is trying to their work, sometimes thanks to these distractions some students feel less motivated to do their work, like myself. But this article is useful, and I would recommend this article to some of my college friends.
Hi Ashley!
I agree with your point how this situation might affect teachers more than students, as most students are somehow familiar with the online learning procedure already.
I think that the author did a good thing by writing the article. Morris helps inform all the readers about how many institutions, professors, students, and others are handling the virus epidemic while simultaneously giving advice and help to the readers that might be students as to how they can successfully transition from on-campus school life to online classrooms. What resonates with me most is how Morris shows this concern for any readers that might be students and does his best to provide any tips for those students to take advantage of any opportunities that can help them adjust to this new online classroom environment. He also mentions how there are other challenges students are facing during the virus outbreak besides having to adjust to online schoolings, such as housing insecurity. If I could ask Morris anything, I would ask him how he thinks the sudden switch to an online class system can affect any students and their grades in those courses. I believe that what Morris is speaking on in his article connects to what we spoke about in our class as he shows how many students already make many adjustments to their life for their education, like the students who lived on-campus dorms and are now facing housing problems as they have no choice but to move out.
In his article, “Pivot To Online: A Student Guide”, Sean Michael Morris speaks about how the global pandemic, COVID-19, has had a drastic affect on the educational system. The new challenges that students had to face such as, to leave their campus and move out of their dorms, LGBTQ students seem to face higher risks compared to other students, possible suicide attempts by students due to stress, students losing employment, and how some students may face internet or technological difficulties. Morris later also talks about the steps we can take in order to face this situation a bit calmly.
The most striking idea that stood out the most to me in Morris’ article, is how he is concerned about not just the students, but also the teachers as well. I, too, agree with his point on how drastically the coronavirus has affected the entire educational system by transitioning to remote learning. Students, especially the younger generation, might not face much difficulties with online-computer based learning as they are much more familiar with technology. However, it is the teachers or elder students that will be most affected because they might not be as fluent with technology and media. Teachers with “a lifetime’s worth of teaching experience” might find it awkward, as they have always had face-to-face type of interactions with their students. On the other hand, a lot of students might have already experienced the online version of education at some point.
Morris’ fifth point, “Help each other”, resonates a lot with me. Even though Morris only mentioned the academic help we could provide each other with, but I would like to add that we should help each other out in general, maybe call our neighbors, friends, relatives, co-workers, and rather anyone, and ask them about their wellbeing and whether they need any sort of help, including financially and emotionally. We must step up as much as we can and help people get away with this catastrophic phase. This was the part I believe should have been included in the article. Morris also mentioned about students “meeting at designated class times”, which is something that we have been talking about in class, that how we students should come to class and try to avoid unexcused absences. To sum up, it was very surprising the way Morris thought about students, teachers, and the educational system as a whole during this time of crisis.
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