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Dave Lagatuz discusses the challenges they have faced with virtual learning as a medical student during the global pandemic. Some of the key difficulties include intermittent internet connections, an overwhelming workload that has negatively impacted mental health, and an incompatible home learning environment with distractions. Lagatuz stresses that not all students have equal privilege and resources to deal with these issues, and calls for making online learning less burdensome and more compassionate for those suffering immense challenges.

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Reflection Paper Virtual Learning Pedia

Dave Lagatuz discusses the challenges they have faced with virtual learning as a medical student during the global pandemic. Some of the key difficulties include intermittent internet connections, an overwhelming workload that has negatively impacted mental health, and an incompatible home learning environment with distractions. Lagatuz stresses that not all students have equal privilege and resources to deal with these issues, and calls for making online learning less burdensome and more compassionate for those suffering immense challenges.

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Dave Lawrence P.

Lagatuz 2Y
Virtual Learning Experience
My virtual learning experience as medical student has been stressful as there are many
factors that contribute to it such as intermittent network connection, the amount of workload
from the classes, the novel online set-up, and the global health pandemic itself. The online
means of delivery of instruction through zoom, assignments, and lectures has been taxing and
unbearable not only on my part, but also of other students who might be similarly situated as I
am. This online means of learning has bombarded students with lots of requirements to a point
that it has been already unbearable. The amount of workload, while it is necessary as there is
no other choice but to continue learning through adaptive measures, it has impacted the
mental health of students. The goal of students in the online set-up is not anymore more on
learning, but surviving the difficulties posed by the new means of delivery of instruction.
Among the challenges that I have encountered in this online set-up of learning is the
intermittent network connection in our home. With the shift of the educational sector to online
means of delivery of instruction, it has caused the massive rise of network connection users in
different areas across the country. Naturally, this rise of network users has led to slow and/or
intermittent network connections as many users are sharing bandwidth in their respective
areas. Experiencing such in the course of online learning has been frustrating as there are a lot
of instances when I have to pass a requirement or do an activity but I am constrained by the
circumstance in being able to accomplish it. The intermittent and slow network connection in
our home has resulted to backlogs and piling up of tasks that I myself did not choose to have.
Moreover, among the challenges I have experience in this virtual learning set-up is the
incompatible set-up of learning at home. Homes are simply not conducive for learning as there
are a lot of distractions. Various errands given by relatives and other domestic responsibilities
have to be done at home before I am able to carry on with my academic requirements and
learning. As humans have been psychologically trained to rest at home after they have gone to
school or work in the pre-pandemic era, my body system makes me inclined to rest in our
home. Such learning set-up in the confines of our home is deleterious to my learning as my
environment is not conducive for my education. I have been continuously struggling with this
set-up despite of the challenges I experience. Furthermore, the anxiety and stress of the global
health pandemic has also been detrimental to my mental well-being. It is difficult to study
knowing that there are many people dying outside. It is disheartening to know that the
marginalized are forced to work outside just so that they would have something to eat on their
table for the day, while I am sleeping in the confines of our home. Education in the time of a
Global Health Emergency simply has been very burdensome on the part of students.
The difficulties experienced by students like I am in online learning cannot be simply
discredited just because other students are able to successfully hurdle it. It takes so much
privilege to be blinded by the reality that not all individuals are similarly situated. There are
different struggles individuals experience in life, especially in this fatal state of global health
emergency. As to when students will stop suffering from this online set-up will all depend on
the government’s response on this national health emergency. But not until then, schools,
students, teacher, and other advocates should focus on making this online set-up more
compassionate and less burdensome on the part of students who have suffered so much
already in this thing called virtual learning.

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