Summary
In early 2020, as the coronavirus spread, schools around the world abruptly halted in-person education. To many governments and parents, moving classes online seemed the obvious stopgap solution.
In the United States, school districts scrambled to secure digital devices for students. Almost overnight, videoconferencing software like Zoom became the main platform teachers used to deliver real-time instruction to students at home.
Now a report from UNESCO, the United Nations’ educational and cultural organization, says that overreliance on remote learning technology during the pandemic led to “staggering” education inequality around the world. It was, according to a 655-page report that UNESCO released on Wednesday, a worldwide “ed-tech tragedy.”
The report, from UNESCO’s Future of Education division, is likely to add fuel to the debate over how governments and local school districts handled pandemic restrictions, and whether it would have been better for some countries to reopen schools for in-person instruction sooner.
Analysis
How exactly did the coronavirus epidemic impact the military? Their instructing, recruitment, and training had to be done in ways that were deeper than just wearing a mask or learning remotely. The article dives into how deeply rooted the failures were of online teaching, albeit they were a necessity at the time, they were overall a failure. It emphasized how badly school and learning have to be face-to-face and that the education experience gets completely altered when conducted solely online. How did these types of things influence the military? Did they receive fewer recruits due to the pandemic? Did training and educating members take a longer time? Were education or training sessions even held in person? If these aspects were also affected by the covid pandemic then I wonder what kind of hit it produces on the up-and-coming members that the force is producing. On the flip side, was it a positive time for the military, could they recruit more widely, and train people on a larger scale? Although school came out of the pandemic saying that it was a loss, can the same be said for the military?
