Current situation of the Covid-19 pandemic seems to\nexacerbate the need of convening classroom through or via the internet. This unprecedented\nphenomenon is of course has never happened or being done before in anyway\nalbeit slightly, but now is a basic requirement for school aged children during\ntheir school developmental years. Everybody is converging themselves into\nonline and virtual platforms in doing their works and activities. This happens\nas a reaction to the current pandemic situation with the noble intention to\nstop the spread of the fatal Covid-19 virus. Furthermore, the current directive\nof imposing the now Movement Control Order 3.0 has lengthened the need to have\nmore upcoming event of virtual or online classroom teaching and learning, and\nonline meetings since companies have adopted the approach of WFH or working\nfrom home practices. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The\nneed to have all learning activities and class room or meeting online has\ntriggered some adverse reaction and uncomfortable feeling to some people\nespecially the children involved, the teachers and of course the parents\nthemselves. One main reason for this is that everyone has to forcibly embrace\nthis very alien situation as a new norm of life and that they need to practice it\nas a new lifestyle. This has never been an easy situation in the long run\nespecially when it comes to online classroom teaching and learning. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Everyone\nis aware of the how and what it is like to have online classes. Starting a new\nday in the early morning facing the screen continuously for a long period of\ntime, up to 5 hours a day every day. It is in fact so tiring. This of course may\nlead to the development of severe form of detrimental health effects,\nphysically, as well as mentally. Continuously staring and watching the screen\nmore than an hour a day every day is enough to bring some damages to the eye, let\nalone if more than 2 hours of continuous use. It is so common nowadays that\nchildren are having eye sight issues at very young age due to overloaded screen\ntime. Many children develop headache so frequently that is attributable to eye\nstrain that occurs as a result of incremental use of screen time. Eye strain is\nalso understood as asthenopia or ocular fatigue, indicating some fatigue or\nstrain to the eyes that occurs as a result of intense use of the organ. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In addition, sitting longer in front of the computer screen\nthan is necessary is also not good for child healthy development. The ergonomic\nposture is compromised and the physical activities are limited. Children who\nlack physical activities are more prone to be weak and easily losing their\nmuscle mass. They are also more prone to fall and seems to be clumsy and\ntherefore are at more risk to get injured. Therefore, prolonged screen time is\nnot good for children healthy development. It is even worse if they sit in\nfront of the screen longer than what is recommended. For further information\nand guidelines of recommended screen time, readers can refer to American\nAcademy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Practice Guidelines. Online learning\nmay also impose different level of understanding among the students to\nunderstand the subject matter that consequently creates feeling of anxiety,\nfrustration, inadequacy and low self-esteem. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Among other unwanted negative effects of continuous\nscreen time is screen fatigue. Screen fatigue is different from eye fatigue or\nocular fatigue. Screen fatigue refers to the feeling and sensation of being\ntired, worried and burnout in relation to online internet activities. This\ncondition represents a form of mental fatigue, which is usually associated with\nthe intense and over use of virtual platform as a medium of communication via the\ninternet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This condition happens as an adverse effect of\nneuropsychological function weakening due to the nature of intense online\npsychological efforts in order to comprehend online communication and\ninformation. In fact, the down side of it, especially if forced, unintentional,\nand prolong as well as unmonitored or uncontrolled use of virtual media\nplatform, contributes to the feeling of anxiety and helplessness that may end\nup in despair and frustration. Even worst, it may increase the risk to develop\nmental health problems soon, or trigger the relapse of the existing mental\nillness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Online meeting or classroom meeting in anyway has\nnever been so funny as compared to physical meeting. It is boring, tedious and\nnon-rewarding, but need some efforts in order to make it rewarding and\nsatisfying. However, it is a matter of fact that nowadays, people all over the\nworld has succumbed themselves to online activities and therefore we can never\nimagine how serious the negative consequences of it on the mental health wellbeing\nof the people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since we are preparing ourselves for a better life\nduring this pandemic situation, we should not neglect the need of our mental\nhealth wellbeing while we are online. There are ethical codes of conducts that\nwe shall follow when using any communicating platforms in the internet in order\nto manage excessive use of it. Even for\nthe Muslims, the saying of the Quran, in surah al Syam, verse 9 means \u2018Indeed, successful is the person who makes\nhimself already clean to make himself increasingly clean (with faith and aural\nvirtue), and verily vain is the one who his cleanliness has shrunk and sunk\n(because of the filth of immorality)\u2019.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Current situation of the Covid-19 pandemic seems to exacerbate the need of convening classroom through or via the internet. This unprecedented phenomenon is of course has never happened or being done before in …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_analytify_skip_tracking":false,"_wpzoom_pinterest_image_url":"","_wpzoom_pinterest_hidden_image":"0","_wpzoom_pinterest_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-straits-times","category-139","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ikim.gov.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ikim.gov.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ikim.gov.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ikim.gov.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ikim.gov.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ikim.gov.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ikim.gov.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ikim.gov.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ikim.gov.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}