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as their economic, infrastructures teachers can easily communicate with would want to learn,” explained Joe.
and environtment factors, for which their students without any disrup- Therefore, Joe conduct a special
he keeps on trying to help them all. tions. For him, there are some human monthly seminar dedicated to the par-
“There are students whose internet interactions that can’t be replaced by ents. Usually, they will invite child psy-
access keeps on disconnecting or stu- technology. chologist or another figure who focus-
dents who run out of quota. There are Founder and Director of Joe Mat- es on music education for children.
many factors that can interrupt dis- ter School of Music, Joe Matindas, ex- “In early March we have held a spe-
tance learning,” said Indi. pressed the same thing as Indi. The cial seminar for parents and invited a
Indi would understand the condi- school of music which he established storyteller. We have limited the partic-
tions of his students in adapting to this in 2016 has implemented distance ipants since then,” he said.
new routine, and he also keeps ensur- learning since March 2020. He used They also cancelled students’ per-
ing that each of his students will get Zoom application to teach his stu- forming arts which usually being held
his lessons. Indi said that he would dents. “I’ve been using Zoom just like every six months, eventhough they had
use some online applications such as any other teachers,” Joe said. prepared the event from its schedul-
Google Classroom or WhatsApp in de- Joe changed the routine of his ing time to its location. “We usually
livering the lessons to his students. teachers in teaching music. Normally, hold students performing arts which
“All this time, I’ve been using Google teachers would face their students in we have to cancel this time due to the
Classroom even when there are many classes but now they had to adapt to COVID pandemic,” Joe explained.
information technologies offered now- the use of technology in order to keep
adays. We can use them properly dur- the lessons going. They face some dif- Parent Participations
ing this time of pandemic,” he said. ficulties at first, like the internet con-
However, Indi hoped that schools nection that keeps on disconnecting The adaptation to this new meth-
will reopen as he believe that face to and the students who are taking some od of distance learning not only com-
face learning is the most important times to adapt. “Children under 7 ing from the teachers but also from
aspect in education. Besides, face years old are likely to have hard times the parents. Parents must be involved
to face learning has advantages that in adapting to new method, so the in this home learning method. So does 21
online learning hasn’t. For example, teachers need to be creative so they Edi Triyono. Before going to work, he

There are many factors that can interrupt distance
learning. Some students has internet access that keeps
on disconnecting and some others run out of quota.

Indi Dwi Kastoro,
Teacher at Senior High School (SMAN) 46,
South Jakarta

A primary school
student was doing
distance-learning in
a fun way.

Credits
Dharma W.