Educational Blog

  What do you think about the environment? Are you interested in it? If so then read this blog post, because I will show some advantages of environmental education as a school subject. First of all there are a lot of environmental problems around the world. One huge problem is the plastic in the ocean. Many animals die, because they eat the plastic. As a solution people should use less plastic and more paper or glass. Another important problem is air pollution. People should go by bike or the take the bus. Secondly I want to talk about solutions school can do. They should use more glass instead of plastic. Also the schools can recycle the plastic, because it rots very slowly. For example you can use paper to pack food in the school buffet. Should environmental education become integrated in other lessons? Environmental education should be integrated in biology, because in this subject you talk about the nature. It is a really important topic, but it shouldn’t become a new subject b...

  Are you also a student right now who is struggling with online schooling? I am! If you also feel  overwhelmed and exhausted regarding Corona, then you are in the right place.  Since February 2020 everything has changed. It all started mid of March with a lock-down. From one day to the other schools were closed and the so called “distance learning” started. Which sounded exciting at first glance turned out to be a disaster. Neither the ministry of education, nor the teachers nor the pupils were prepared for such a form of teaching. We all were confronted with a lack of nearly everything: end devices, standardized teaching platforms, regular online lessons and last but not least we missed our friends and even our teachers ☺ . School year ended after having four weeks of teaching in shifts and started after two months of open school again with closed schools and distance learning – until yesterday Even if Austrian students haven’t learned as much about the different subjec...

  Don’t you think our environment is in big trouble? Because I do! There is this huge hole in the ozone layer which has to close again for example. But this only works if we finally decide to do something for it. Planting trees would be optimal. But this hole isn’t our only problem. There are many other problems like the pollution of oceans and seas. Many fishes are dying because of that. But the list of bad things doesn’t stop here. There are many other disasters we have to do something about as well. To fix those things we need every help we can get. So why don’t you or your school contribute something good for the environment? For example, by going to demonstrations. Starting an environmental-protection school project would also be a great idea. There are many other options to do something good for nature as long as something changes. Even if you only start separating waste. But to start helping the environment people have to know what they can do about it. Therefore, it would b...

  As we surely all have understood by now the past year has been drastically different due to the global pandemic, for adults as well as for students. In this blog post I will show you the viewpoint of an affected student from Austria. First of all, schools only partially closed down. For the most time online classes were held, then when things got better the government decided to switch to a system with half of the students physically going to school every other day. Unfortunately, this led to more covid-cases, resulting in a back and forth between online classes and “real” classes. One of the major differences was in the amount of work that we got assigned. Not only were the teachers much more generous with homework but as a student I had a lot more time to manage, and efficiently do, all the tasks. This might seem like a big advantage for everyone, but the actual online meetings were much more stressful than I could’ve ever imagined. Over time, however, things changed. Teachers ...

  This year has been an interesting and unpredictable one. Don't you agree with me? Some things improved, and people gained new knowledge. Isn't this fantastic? But how did school education change? Was this a school year in which children learned something or was it something of a holiday for them? This school year, 2020/21, children and teens were unable to attend school for a long period of time, because of the Coronavirus. Late in October, schools and restaurants closed and reopened in the middle of May. As a result, people lost their jobs and went through a tough period for seven months. There were several times when students could go to school, but only for two weeks, and the classes were divided into two groups, which was awesome because students, who were shyer than others, got more confident and teachers noticed easier if somebody had any difficulty with school, for example. However, many people and students learned how to use their laptop properly and how to be more re...

 I strongly assume that every student can tell that COVID has affected their school year in some way. However, it is difficult to say at this point if this disruption of our schooling has interfered with our education. I’ve actually heard some students say that they’ve hardly learned anything during the time at home. What was it like for you? Let’s start with the difference from normal school years. The first two months were quite normal, apart from new hygienic standards. Then, however, students in upper secondary school switched to distance learning from November until February and only entered the school for exams. Some classes were taught as online meetings, others were work schedules with individual assignments. From February to May, every class got split into two groups that attend school for half a week. Yet it can be said that students were forced to develop skills which they wouldn’t have learned in a normal year. Computer competencies, working with online programs such as...

  Do you also love to watch Youtube? Then I really want to share my opinion about the platform an the celebrities that are on it. I really liketo watch Youtube, but i prefer british content creators because the content is way better than the German channels. I really like Videos about football. When I was a little bit younger my favourite channel was called „Sidemen“. They were a group of some men and they often did funny football challenges and always made me laugh. But they are not only comedy and sport videos. There are also channels where you can learn something for school and I think thats a good way to learn. However, there are also people who upload complete nonsense to this platform. I think they are real celebrities because they have a lot fans, many people know them and they got a great range, but ist questionable whether some deserve it because they post wrong and useless things that are not good for the society. As long as you use your reach fort he good, I think that y...

  You have probably heard about global warming and other environmental problems in the news. Unfortunately, there are many severe environmental issues many people aren’t aware of. In my opinion a new subject in school about environmental education would be required to get people informed and make the world a better place we can be proud of. Because there are serious environmental issues that threaten many places in the world, I believe that it is important to talk about a few of them in school. Some current environmental issues are world hunger, pollution, deforestation and global warming. For example, the concentration of CO 2 in the atmosphere was increased by 48 percent in comparison to the preindustrial age and the Amazon River releases almost 20 percent more CO 2 into the atmosphere than it consumes from it. There are many ways how schools can contribute to fighting the climate crisis. Firstly, they could teach generation Z more about the greenhouse effect and global warming s...

  Due to Covid19 schools in Austria were closed in the year 2020/21 a lot. Students who are attending 9 th to 11 th grade were homeschooled for around three months in total. Younger pupils and high-school graduators were able to get educated at school a bit more. Even though some teenagers were allowed to go to school since January, their classes were divided into two groups, so that there weren’t too many people at once. And because there were two groups, one group could just go to school for two days, so that the other one was able to get educated on the other two days as well. Fridays were still homeschooled.  However, studying at home taught students a lot of new things which they would probably have not learned in school. If you don’t think so just keep on reading, I will persuade you. Firstly, teenagers have learned to organize themselves and their time schedule better, because in our school we got more assignments than having onli...

  Covid-19 was a shock for all of us. The schools in Austria were suddenly closed and all children were sent home. The turbulent everyday life of pupils was suddenly no longer turbulent but instead monotonous and boring. Many months later, half of the class returned to school for two days at a time. And now, on Monday 17 th of May 2021, the long-awaited face-to-face teaching in the schools has started again. And the legitimate question arises: did Covid-19 cost us a year of education? What would you say? I would say no. Of course, it was a new, unfamiliar and perhaps not easy kind of learning during Covid-19. But one thing is for certain: Students learned a lot that they would never have been taught at school. Firstly, pupils became more independent. They learned how to organize themselves and structure their day. They also gained discipline as they were forced to hand in challenging tasks on time. Moreover, they also had to follow a healthy routine in order not to harm their body ...

  The last year was very difficult for many students in Austria. Why? Covid19 didn’t just change the way we shop, but also the way we go to school. In this year, the school system changed significantly. To illustrate this point, distance learning was established and the students only went to school for short periods of time. The whole class was in school for a very short time and from then on, distance learning and shift operation shaped the school year. But this time didn’t cost us a year of education, as many people might claim. Because of these new systems, students have learned many new skills. They worked with computers on a regular basis, organised themselves and even learned new topics on their own. This was a time where students developed a lot of new abilities which they wouldn’t have gained in a normal year. In my opinion, this year didn’t cost us a year of education. In fact, I believe this unique time was a very educational one for the students. For instance, the comput...

  Do you know about deforestation? Or the melting polar caps? Or maybe even the Great Pacific garbage patch? All of these are topics regarding the environment. Although they are so important, not much about them is taught at schools. And that’s what I want to talk about in this Blog post. I got most of the information I have about these topics from the Internet or documentaries. Current environmental problems, regarding the ocean, are not talked about in school that much, although they are just as important as some of the other problems we learn about. That’s a topic, pupils should definitely learn more about. But that’s just one of many. Do you know any ways to help with the climate crisis and other environmental issues? If you ask me, that’s something that schools should teach young people more about. That would help a lot, because it spreads awareness about the environment and suggests ways for the students to help with its condition. Another way schools could help, involves sch...