Educational Blog

  Covid-19, Coronavirus, Sars-Covid-2, we’ve heard it all. For more than a year this pandemic has kept us on the run and has bothered us all day long. But how exactly has it affected the way we learn, or to be more precise, how much we learn in school? I grew up and am currently living in Austria. Here, the situation, as in almost every other country, has been very difficult during the past year. For 15- to- 18-year-olds, schools were closed for roughly 6 months due to the pandemic. Every time a new announcement by the government was made, we had to get all our books and go home to do “distance-learning”.  I am sure that everyone has learned at least something from this difficult period of time. Many of my peers say that they can now manage their work schedule a lot better, others state that it even got worse due to the loss of structure. In this regard the separation of work and free time has gotten a lot more difficult as we didn’t leave our house to get to school or work an...

  I presume that I need not introduce anyone to COVID-19 . It is the reason why you cannot see your friends and also why you can wake up at 9 am on weekdays. And this is precisely the premise of today's blog post. How did the lack of regular lessons influence us, and did we indeed waste a year of education?  We are not going to lie to ourselves:  this school year has been extremely overwhelming . The back and forth between going to school and switching to distant learning left not only me but a lot of others very confused. Until November we were all together as a class, and then we had to shift to online education. After that, it was just a mix of online lessons and  class attendance, with only half of the students present.  Nonetheless, I can tell from my own experience that when it comes to new skills, this year has been very productive. I think that the most important one is becoming  a more independent learner. It is difficult for teachers to check on t...

  What would our school lives look like at the moment if Covid didn’t exist? That’s a question that I have asked myself hundreds of times, and I am pretty sure that I am not the only one. My intention in this blog post is to talk more about our current situation and the effect Covid has had on our education. To begin with, this school year has been totally different from others and has changed many students’ perspectives on their schooling. First of all you have to know that in Vienna there have been many lockdowns, which meant fewer days at school, and also fewer tests. Therefore, many pupils  have found it very hard to motivate themselves since last year, which is completely understandable. Many of us have had  personal problems (which were probably developed during lockdown), mental illnesses, anxiety, or have experienced loneliness. As a result, many children and teenagers have gotten worse grades. Additionally, there were no regular classes between  November and...