IMPACT COVID-19 HAS ON OURLIVE
BY: NTSUMBEDZENI TSHIMANGADZO
TWITTER: @tshimangien
EMAIL: ntsumbedzenitshimangadzo@gmail.com
Depending on our status as individuals and members of society, the pandemic's impact and consequences are felt differently. While some people try to adjust to working online, homeschooling their children, and getting food through parcel, others are required to be infected in order to keep civilization running. Our many social identities and the social groupings to which we belong define our social inclusion and, as a result, our vulnerability to epidemics.
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Andrea Mabry |
The Covid-19 pandemic has affected myself and people around me in a very challenging way especially when it comes to education side where I was forced to learn online, which something that I’m not used to it. This pandemic has had a one-of-a-kind impact on my family and me, disrupting routines, altering relationships and roles, and causing changes to normal child care, school, and recreational activities. It also helped us dine together and stay together at times. spending the most amount of time possible physically experiencing each other's anguish and pleasure It also causes a slew of uncomfortable situations in family life, causing stress and anguish.
As the world
becomes increasingly interconnected, so do the risks we face. The Covid-19
pandemic has not stopped at national borders. It has affected people regardless
of nationality, level of education, income or gender. But the same has not been
true for its consequences, which have hit the most vulnerable hardest.
Education is no exception. Students from privileged backgrounds, supported by
their parents and eager and able to learn, could find their way past closed
school doors to alternative learning opportunities. Those from disadvantaged
backgrounds often remained shut out when their schools shut down.
The Covid-19
pandemic has also had a severe impact on my higher education level as
universities closed their premises and countries shut. Although at Tshwane
University of Technology alongside other higher education institutions were
quick to replace face-to-face lectures with online learning, these closures
affected learning and examinations as well as the safety and legal status of
international students in their host country. Perhaps most importantly, the
crisis raises questions about the value offered by a university education which
includes networking and social opportunities as well as educational content. To
remain relevant, universities will need to reinvent their learning environments
so that digitization expands and complements student-teacher and other
relationships.
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