Physical and Social interaction in education

Lea Andrea B. Galindez

Social interaction is a therapy of the mind in order to balance feelings and emotions. It is a way of expressing yourself, but since we need to limit human interaction which is social in nature because of this pandemic crisis, physical interaction will be missed out in today’s status of education. Social interaction in education is one way of developing self-confidence, effective communication, and improve awareness and belongings. It is a challenge nowadays not only by the teachers, but most especially parents on how they will let their children socially active. Social media is just a supplementary interaction by sending messages, chatting and video calls. A social interaction is a well-versed communication when physical aspect is present. Education system in the Philippines finds the best way to make learning meaningful despite pandemic crisis.

Online learning presents social media interaction as part of platform learning instructions, through this medium, it will cover the interaction in the absence of literal physical interactions. Parents will take charge on how physical interaction will take place, given the idea of very limited socializing activities. Strong family interactions are one way of providing physical interaction. Family support is an effective way to make it effective and healthy for each other. Doing physical activities together at home can be done. Physical interaction is a part of performance and effective communication that deals with interacting humans. It is a cooperative language that stimulates motor performance in a certain task. Social interaction needs physical aspect in order to relates responses and do the physical language. Today’s situation will hamper these 2 kinds of interactions; all we need is to embark to our own ways on how are we going to achieve this during this pandemic. Reading a lot will be helpful. In a social media, interaction is actually performing physical interaction in the absence of actual scenes or what we call face to face interaction. In education, they say that the best way to learn is to have the face to face learning, but since it is not advisable we can make some adjustments and intervention.

Physical and social interactions come together, but has broad effects and results to humans. We can tell all of us physically and socially interactive but different in nature, as such many studies and research is being done in order to adopt to this new normal situation. We may not have these both interactions with deeper meaning, but what is important is we learn to deal with it and we raise awareness of these two is a natural aspect that is a part of effective communication and language of life.

The author is Teacher

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III at Mauaque High School (Resettlement School)