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Covid – A student’s dream or educational disaster?

 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 learned how to utilize new tools while students got

better at performing, both on paper and in meetings. Personally, as time went on it got easier to

check what tasks I had to do, and to manage them efficiently. In comparison to the beginning of the

pandemic, when I didn’t follow my timetable, I have changed my attitude quite a bit. I now try and

do the tasks at the times when I would have to do them if I were in school.

All in all, I would consider this year an opportunity to try something new. Sure, a lot of education has

been lost in trying to fight covid, but we all learned something while that was happening. Never

before in my life could I have imagined doing every single subject from the comfort of my walls.

Has the education system in your country changed in a similar way to how mine did? Did you benefit

from learning something new as well, or has it been a disaster? Write a comment and we’ll try to

discuss your answers in the next blog.

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