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What do we expect from post-pandemic education in Indonesia?
Indonesia should harness the digital lessons of COVID-19 toward ensuring equitable quality education for all post-pandemic.
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Keep studying: Elementary school students take part in online learning at a reading corner of the local neighborhood unit (RT) of Sawah Lio 5 in Jembatan Lima, West Jakarta, on Sept. 4, 2020. (JP/P.J. Leo)
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ransforming from face-to-face instruction into distance education through online learning is formidable, but educational transformation has not only occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Educators and students both experienced the challenges of transforming instructional strategies a long time ago, such as during the first time using a chalkboard, also called a blackboard. The classroom blackboard was one of the most revolutionary educational tools ever invented at that time.
Meanwhile, converting a non-chalkboard lesson to the chalkboard proved difficult. Most educators found it challenging to instruct students by writing on the chalkboard, rather than solely by lecturing. Others found chalk to be unpleasant or a trigger for allergies and asthma.
In addition, the writing on a chalkboard is hard to read in the dark. Scratching a chalkboard with the fingernails or other items, particularly metal objects, makes an exceedingly unpleasant sound.
Although complaints ensued, the chalkboard became one of the most innovative alternatives and promising technologies to promote efficacious learning in that era.
Such challenges and difficulties also occurred during the Renaissance and the Scientific Revolution, when the Middle Ages transformed into modernity. This transformation later followed with the transition to the Industrial Revolution.
Meanwhile, a lesson we have learned from COVID-19 is that behind every challenge is an opportunity. In the educational sector, the pandemic period introduced new digital technologies for educators.
