Lockdown Stories: Studying at home is morbidly depressing | 18-Feb-21

A talkRADIO listener has said how studying at home during lockdown and not taking part in live lessons is "morbidly depressing."

Sophie, a 17-year-old student in Newcastle, told Julia that: "It's really difficult to sit in your bedroom and motivate yourself every day. It's morbidly depressing... Everyone is dropping their grades."
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[albertostaicu]

Absolutely!!! also working out at home is very depressing too..

[LORDENGLISHVETERAN-nxrk]

So sick of the blame being passed down.. BLAME GOES UPWARDS THE BUCK STOPS AT THE TOP NOT THE BOTTOM!!

[catherinewardle]

It’s heartbreaking ... our young people or simply being pushed aside! Came back from a walk earlier and saw three retired people all from different households having a nice long chat!! If that was three teenagers ‘hanging about’ everyone would be complaining. It’s simply wrong now what the government continues to do.

[allnature]

They have taken a precious year out of everyone's life

[Cordelia-again]

I'm sick of the people supporting the government! What is happening is being done to the people of this country is pure evil!

[matthewsmith]

Ok, if you ill or the weather is bad, not everyday. I pity anyone who works and studies from home

[davefk]

These lock-downs have made a lot of organisations and companies who should know better, lazy...

[LORDENGLISHVETERAN-nxrk]

Remove nero before the lot burns down.. why are you..YES YOU TALK RADIO not actively doing something?? Why are YOU not telling US what we can do to end it and leading the charge? You are better equipped and positioned to act. You have access to lawyers.. where are the legal challenges?? ...DO IT

[garytyme]

Could I add that:

Sophie is missing the motivational component. If she now understands the importance of education then she should use that acknowledgement of the important to motivate her ambition to succeed i.e., study her interests and enhance her opportunities?

I am not being dismissive of Sophie here as I am an agency worker and a teacher of A level and degree and haven't had work for a year and would appreciate the work at Newcastle to support these students. However, I would also suggest that having time to develop your understanding in the importance of education can be the very thing that opens the door to using the acknowledgement of that importance to motivate your success. As a teacher I support the students by helping them become self-dependent learners by employing this strategy called Heutagogy., otherwise known as self-determined learning, is a student-centred instructional strategy that emphasizes the development of autonomy, capacity, and capability.

“Heutagogy is the study of self-determined learning … It is also an attempt to challenge some ideas about teaching and learning that still prevail in teacher centred learning and the need for, as Bill Ford (1997) eloquently puts it ‘knowledge sharing’ rather than ‘knowledge hoarding’. In this respect heutagogy looks to the future in which knowing how to learn will be a fundamental skill given the pace of innovation and the changing structure of communities and workplaces.”

Hence, as the world changes so should our adoption/s, adaptation/s and improvements too it.

[sunshinestar]

Im going off talk radio now, does anyone else feel the same?