Traditional education vs. online education / Was I prepared for online education?

Certainly online education is not something new or recent, we already have seen this

model of education in other universities or schools, even we were supposed to be

related with this model because we use platforms online in our daily life, but nearly

two years later since the beginning of the pandemic, we still struggling to adequate

ourselves with this model.

At the beginning of the pandemic when we knew that we had to stay in our homes

and continue as we can, I had a lot of questions about online education. I used to

ask myself, will I be able to work this way? What if I don't have an internet

connection? And what about my teachers, will they be able to adapt themselves to

this situation?

So now, a year and some months later I can say that I prefer a hundred times more

traditional education. I think that I understand more face to face, understanding the

real situations and in an environment where other people can share their

experiences and knowledge with that human touch.

But obviously I'm not saying that everything about online education is bad, in fact

online education should be the normal step in a technological society as ours, we

use the internet for almost everything, we see that a kid have a phone since a very

young age, even look like that they understand internet tool's better than us.

But if I'm going to talk from my perspective as an "adult" I will say that traditional

education will give you that human sense or warm feeling from human contact that

online education does not, and that we currently need most.

Alejandra Ruiz