Argumentative essay 'Face-to-face class (draft 1)'
<The Meaning of Going to School>
These days, it is hot topic for many student to go to school. The various forms of non-face-to-face class arose due to the corona virus. Currently, with the continuous generation of mutant viruses, school attendance is changing from time to time. Opinions supporting face-to-face and non-face-to-face classes are divided according to their respective positions. Some support non-face-to-face classes, but I believe face-to-face classes will bring more advantages to students.
People prefer non-face-to-face classes because the contagious corona-virus has not yet ended. In other words, if a large number of people spend time in schools, there is a risk of coronavirus infection. However, not going to school does not mean that people stay home to keep themselves from the virus. Rather, there was news that quarantine that was not observed in coin karaoke rooms and clubs led to an extension of infection (영남일보 2020) (위키트리 2021). If students come to school for face-to-face classes, it will be safer to come to school and take classes because we can reduce their moving and notice where they go easily. In addition, the office of education has an educational field manual in preparation for the COVID-19 situation, and provides related information publicly and steadily so that classes can be taken in a safer environment (교육부).
Starting with non-face-to-face classes, many things have changed to non-face activities. Regardless of COVID-19 when the 4th Industrial Revolution, big data, and artificial intelligence have emerged as future businesses, many people are interested in them nowadays. However, in our non-face-to-face classes, rather than keeping pace with modern technology, only the delivery media has changed for contents such as face-to-face classes. If a professor who can't make it due to the development of technology takes classes, students will take classes with poor quality. For example, a university in Daegu had a hand-written poster pointing out the professor's incompetence (KBS NEWS 2021). This is because professors keep reusing video recorded for last year lectures in non-face-to-face classes or only reading textbooks as they did. As such, we still need face-to-face classes because we have not yet established the form of non-face-to-face classes that we ideally think of.
Non-face-to-face classes and face-to-face classes should not be considered in black and white, but our society still has a lot to prepare for non-face-to-face classes. The risk of infectious diseases is everywhere, so it is difficult not to take face-to-face classes just because of COVID-19. Also since not all learners and instructors started non-face-to-face education with complete knowledge of how to use information technology, there are many problems and face-to-face education should be prioritized. School is not just a place to learn information, but a place to learn how to live with others as a small society. We still have to learn how to live with others rather than how to live with computers.
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