Home learning has its disadvantages and advantages. These are three of my thoughts on what I think is good and what is bad. First I will talk about the advantages and then the disadvantages.
The good things about home learning are we are decreasing the spread of COVID-19 so we can go back to school sooner and save some lives of people. We also don’t have as many distractions. Your friends can’t bump you and talk to you. Home learning is a good excuse to get work done and mute your emails and turn your devices off. The last good thing is we get more time to spend on some projects. Like last week I spent about 4 hours on my maths angles because I did heaps of internet research, so now I am really good at that. I also spent a lot of days researching and planning my Matariki video.
The disadvantages of home learning are:
We don’t get teacher time. We can’t walk up to our teachers and ask them to explain what a word means. We have to email it, but most of the time it doesn’t teach us much. One of the biggest problems is kids do their work but don’t take the time to understand what it means. They also finish really early. So some kids don’t learn anything and the teachers can’t do anything about that apart from telling them they have to keep doing their work. For some questions, we have to email our teachers and they can’t tell us instantly so that wastes some time. Some kids don’t even do their tasks!
So these are the good things and bad things about home learning in my opinion.
