I am writing this letter to discuss The State of Education. As we come to the end of the year 2024 we have experienced what it is like to learn online and learn face to face. I will be discussing traditional learning versus virtual learning and the impact the transition had on people before and after the pandemic.

Throughout my Multigenre Research Project we will review fact-based genres and creative genres that discuss The State of Education in the way that students learn.

Your Author,

Braelyn Ramirez

Dear Diary,

         Today was another one of those days, it is hard for me to focus on school after finding out that my grandfather was diagnosed with Covid-19. We have only been doing school online for about a month and I am not doing so well in school as I typically would. I do not know how some people deal with the pain, but my heart just breaks, and I begin to sob uncontrollably. I visited my grandfather again but this time something felt different. It is as if I can presence that soon he will no longer be with me....

Dhawan, S. (2020). Online learning: a panacea in the time of COVID-19 crisis. Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 49(1), 5–22. https://doi.org/10.1177/0047239520934018

Shi, Y., Wang, G., Cai, X., Deng, J., Zheng, L., Zhu, H., Zheng, M., Yang, B., & Chen, Z. (2020). An overview of COVID-19. Journal of Zhejiang University SCIENCE B, 21(5), 343–360. https://doi.org/10.1631/jzus.b2000083

One of the many things that I found interesting while researching for this project was how much we made Covid-19 a huge thing as it was meant to be and we took many precautions and changed the way in which we learned and now it feels as if life is back to normal. This multi genre research project helped me identify myself with what I was researching because I do in fact feel as if I learn better in person. I was very content with the topic that I chose as I felt I related more to it the most.

A few years ago there was a day in the year 2019 that changed the world forever. This story takes us back to Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China (Shi et al., 2020). The state of China brought us a pandemic that effected people from infants to seniors beginning in the year 2020 and ending in the year 2023. This pandemic was caused by the virus, Covid-19 that meant everyone had to quarantine and students were forced to leave school. This break lead to the beginning of what is known now as online learning or online school. At the beginning of the break all of the students were so happy to have 2 weeks off of school but later found out it was more serious than it seemed. School would now be online, and little did they know that for most of them it would be hard. Doing school online had a negative impact on a vast majority of students as some would sleep during class, cheat, or not do any homework and be left without wi-fi while others did a lot better in school virtually than in person. All of those students witnessed the struggles of what it was like to live in a pandemic, be in complete isolation, and live differently than how they used to, leading them to miss how school was in person. After just a year and a half, life returned to normal and they were able to return to their old lives for the most part and learn in person like they once had. The End.

Others more gloomier

Days of complete darkness

And complete destress.

School was no exception none

The less; learning to students

Became a wreck.

The pandemic had us by the neck,

Learning online compared nothing

To the rest as traditional learning

is where education placed its nest.