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Faith Awosusi

Jade Williams

Rhetoric 105

September 12, 2021

“How Has Technology Significantly Played a Role in Society During the Pandemic”

There is always a crisis whether worldwide or nationwide; it can go from something not as big of a deal to very life threatening. Over the past 2 years, we have had to deal with the Covid Pandemic and the damages it has done to lives, the economy and living statuses. With covid coming into place, a lot has changed both positively and negatively. Technology use has reached its peak due to the covid pandemic; a lot of adjustments has been made to people’s lifestyle and the cost of living has gone up. With the pandemic, many people have lost their jobs causing them to be unemployed, but technology has brought up more jobs for people. How has technology helped with the virus?

With covid coming into place, technology has been put to great use from it being used to bring awareness to the people about the virus and also to keep them updated about how people can identify if they’ve been affected, to keeping them in the know of whether or not a cure or treatment to eradicate the virus but all to no avail until the year 2021. Scientists did find out who are more vulnerable to the illness.

Previous outbreaks revealed that during a health crisis, people with treatable health conditions suffered disproportionately more because the healthcare system was stretched too thin to operate properly.[6]

The discovery of the vulnerability has scared a lot of people as most people do suffer from some type of illness or disease enforcing them to social distance and some are even scared to go out. Technology opens up more room for research and exploration especially in the pandemic. How has technology impacted education?

During the pandemic, online classes have been enforced in order to try to get everyone to stay home and practice social distancing. For many students especially freshmen, this change is not good since they have not gotten the experience of the school they are attending. Placing a huge focus on college students, learning behind a screen is not fun and neither is it educational. It encourages cheating in so many ways. Learning behind a screen can be very distracting and a lot of the students are visual learners or learn better in person.

The study, published Sept. 4 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, shows that, though students felt as if they learned more through traditional lectures, they actually learned more when taking part in classrooms that employed so-called active- learning strategies. (Harvard study)

As a sophomore student in college having more in-person classes this school year, I feel like I am learning better than last year as I was easily distracted last year and got very lazy leading me to slack in my academics. In what way has technology helped the community spread awareness?

Technology has really helped the community to spread awareness and further investigation on the disease and how to eradicate it. Robots were made and put to use to help make life or living easier.

In all, AI is used to identify, track and forecast outbreaks, it is helping in diagnosing the virus. It is used in processing healthcare claims. The drones and robots are used to deliver food and medicine supplies as well as in sterilizing public places. AI is helping to develop drugs and coronavirus vaccines using supercomputers [6](ncbi)

Computers are being used to monitor the spread of outbreaks in different areas of the world and with this record, the government then decided what steps they want to take to reduce the outbreak like lockdowns and travelling restriction. At some point, the numbers went down as people were getting vaccinated and procedures were being followed but signs were saying if you were vaccinated, you did not need to wear a mask everywhere and that was when the outbreaks increased because not everyone who were not wearing a mask was vaccinated. Now it is required to wear a mask whether or not you are vaccinated because you can still get the virus even when vaccinated. The use of advanced technology helps in trying to fight the epidemic and decrease the outburst also spreading awareness for social distancing. Social media has been used to spread the awareness of safety procedures and emphasize getting the vaccination.

WORK CITED

“COVID-19 and Digital Health: What Can Digital Health Offer for COVID-19?” World Health Organization, World Health Organization, 10 Apr. 2020, www.who.int/china/news/feature-stories/detail/covid-19-and-digital-health-what-can-digital-health-offer-for-covid-19.

Reuell, Peter. “Study Shows That Students Learn More When Taking Part in Classrooms That Employ Active-Learning Strategies.” Harvard Gazette, Harvard Gazette, 5 Sept. 2019, news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/09/study-shows-that-students-learn-more-when-taking-part-in-classrooms-that-employ-active-learning-strategies/.