Zoom's Impact on Education

Hello, my name is Caylee's Giuffra.

So for my technology trend I did zoom.

So this is zooms impact on education.

I feel like most people have had experience with zoom

especially from Covid 19, there's been so much online class

and everything, but first I'll just explain what zoom is.

So zoom is a video conferencing platform that allows people

to communicate with each other virtually.

Um, a lot of professors and even people in the

workplace have utilized this um to use for online education

since everything has been so different with Covid.

So some of the advantages, um, it is easily accessible

from any device.

You can do it on your computer or your phone.

Um it doesn't require you to have an account.

So if you need to get on for lecture or

a class or anything like that, as long as you

have the link, you can just click on it and

it'll you'll go right to it.

It's easy to use and navigate.

From my experience.

I had a lot of use with it.

I didn't have any problems getting on for a class

and everything like that.

Um and then some of the features, it includes our

breakout rooms and screen sharing.

So the breakout rooms were nice for lecture because you

can go into smaller groups and discuss what you're learning

and it's kind of similar to being in class and

talking about the topics with other people.

And then the screen sharing is useful for lecture because

if a professor has a power point or a picture,

anything like that, they can share their screen to show

the whole class and then this is just a picture

of what um the bottom of your screen looks like

if you are on a zoom call.

So some statistics Zoom has over 300 million participants daily

in the annual meeting minutes or 300 trillion.

Um I thought these statistics were pretty crazy and I

included this chart Because as you can see from 2020

to 2021, it's skyrocketed Um which is obviously from COVID-19

because Zoom has been so useful to use um since

people can no longer do as many in person things

and then my experience with zoom.

So with COVID-19 happening, my freshman year of college, I

had my end of my freshman year all online and

then all of last year, my sophomore year of college

online. So I used to zoom almost every day for

all my classes.

Um I thought it was very helpful that, I mean

we could at least have some kind of class and

be able to discuss with other classmates and everything like

that. Um It also was nice to just be able

to do it from the comfort of my own home

and just be able to stay in bed and get

on lecture.

Um And I did like the breakout rooms because you

could discuss topics with classmates and things like that, but

there was some technical issues with that.

Um a couple of times.

My professor couldn't get it to work, things like that,

people couldn't get onto the lecture, so we did have

some technical issues sometimes.

So that got annoying at times and it would take

up class time.

Um, and then I also just made me very lazy.

I feel like I didn't have anywhere to go.

All my classes were online, so I feel like it

made me more lazy and not as motivated to do

things and just lack of attention to being too sometimes

I would doze off or even just have trouble paying

attention since it was all online and there's not a

person in front of you talking.

Oh, so education zoom has become a huge advantage for

people during the pandemic.

It has allowed teachers and professors to still have the

ability to teach class virtually and safely.

Um, teachers had to learn how to adapt to online

platforms and be creative to still have kids engaged in

their lessons.

I feel like it applies for college students as well,

but I feel like definitely with elementary students to um

from my experience as well, having three younger brothers, I

know they had a very hard time being at home

and being able to pay attention and have the teachers

keep them engaged in class because there are a lot

of distractions just in houses and things like that.

I included this picture because it was a trend going

around. Um, I thought it was cute for because also

this was very hard on teachers as well, especially if

you're not used to this.

Technology teachers had to base change all their lesson plans

and base it on zoom and things like that.

So kids were turning off all their screens and then

turning them on at the same time and just thanking

professors for everything they've done during this hard time.

So I thought that was very cute.

Mhm. So some disadvantages of zoom.

I've already talked about some of these, but you have

a high amount of screen time, especially if you have

four or 5 classes a day, 1-2 hours long, you're

on your computer for a long amount of time and

I know it that can be bad for you just

to be on you're computer and everything like that for

that long.

Um It can be socially isolating.

I mean you're in your room just on zoom all

day. Um It's just a lot not having a lot

of social interaction.

It can be really hard on people.

I know that was hard on people as well with

the pandemic.

Um So I would say the main use is for

lectures for zoom.

So I feel like it was utilized more with college

students because we are used to just sitting there and

having someone lecture and not as engaged as compared to

like an elementary school student being younger.

There's a lot of distractions.

They do a lot more hands on stuff and they

need more of that social interaction.

So I feel like it was a lot harder for

younger kids.

Um something I discovered during my research is there's zoom

bombing, which is basically kids were hijacking zoom lectures and

going on disrupting class being um saying very explicit things,

things like that.

So that became a big problem.

Um Disengagement is another one, just people being distracted, not

paying attention.

I admit that happened to me sometimes on zoom lectures

as well and then lack of energy and unmotivated, like

I talked about, I just feel like this made me

very lazy and just in person, it's a lot more

engaging and makes me more motivated to do things all

day compared to me sitting in bed all day listening

to lectures.

And here are my references.

I had four different ones, and that is my presentation

on soon.

Thank you.

Zoom's Impact on Education

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