Online distance teaching and learning: a blessing in disguise / Siti Rahimah Rosseli

People often use the popular idiom, a blessing in disguise, to describe any situation which at first seems to be bad but later turns out good. It is sometimes used as a self-assurance, to calm, comfort and convince one’s own self that everything will him out fine at the end of the day. However, is it really okay for all of us? Does this idiom really work each time, just like when Harry Potter twirl his wand and say his spell hoping something will happen and the magic is indeed real?
Back in March 2020, we hit the bottom rock and our lives turned 360°. We had to apply the concept of Industrial Revolution 4.0 to our lives, which we only read on the newspapers and heard through the seminar attended before. The pandemic forced us to rethink of the way we teach and learn, while most of us at that time, were not ready to adopt and adapt the new practice. Little that we know of how it can suit our conventional ecosystem.