Talking about technology, the students must be familiar with it, especially in this era they are required to master technology, both for their campus assignments and other works based on smartphones, laptops, projectors and other devices. The pandemic of Covid-19 that occurred globally, changed the lifestyle of everyone, including my study in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Lectures
that are usually conducted face-to-face, writing on board, group discussion and
presentation, and using projector, immediately turned into virtual education to
anticipate the spread of Covid-19 infections. It looked easy having lectures
from boarding house, by turning on the smartphone and joining the lectures, but
it is not easy in reality, sometimes it did not produced good result. There
were many problems faced by students due to the change of learning process by
using advanced technology in delivering materials and online interactions using
Google Meet, Zoom, YouTube and others.
It
seemed that the method is easy to follow but it is not, as few students
complained about the changes because they have to adjust themselves to this new
online learning, to face various problems from unstable connection even no
connection at all, no smartphones or laptops so they had to go to internet cafe
for attending online lectures, and they often complained the limited allocation
of their money to buy internet data packages because the application for online
lecture drained their internet data. As one consideration, if one online
lecture costs 1 Gb of internet data package, and there are three courses a day,
how much money is needed to buy internet data package for one month? Some of
them are lucky because of wifi in campus, but what about those who cannot
afford it?
This
is my new challenge. I came from Lampung to Yogyakarta to continue my study. I
live in a boarding house and have to be wise in managing allowance by limiting
expenses or have to do whatever can be
done together with friends. However, never claim as a student if you have no
solution, my friends and I gathered in boarding house during online lecture,
shared one cellphone or laptop, and turned on tethering with friends, for
example, one day we used Eri's cellphone, the next day Yuli's, and the latter
another friend’s, or used wifi in campus. My friends and I enjoyed this, at
least we can save the internet data. In addition, there are other difficulties coming when the presentation time comes because
the students are not familiar with the application used.
These
experiences made me realize that learning technology is not only during
lectures or pandemic. By considering that technology will continue to develop, I have to improve my abilities so that I can
adapt to the work demands based on high technology. One alternative is I took
part in Stube HEMAT Yogyakarta with its Cyber Awareness program that equipped
me with new motivation to learn many things both technology and other useful
skills that I can share when I return to my hometown. ***
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