THE ONBOARD DIARY! INTERVIEW WITH THE PROTAGONIST SOPHIA BITTENCOURT, THE STUDENT.

From Brasília, the capital of Brazil.

The pandemic may have increased the speed of the engine of life for some people, for example, education and teaching professionals.

How are students reacting to remote platforms created or assimilated by public schools? To answer this and other questions, I continue with the presentation of some protagonists of the ONBOARD DIARY SERIES.

Thank you, Shophia Bittencourt, Gevani Silva, Andreia Bombom, Katia Silva, Kennya Fernandes, for making some of your valuable time and work available, and willingly cooperating with the series proposal.

Education and teaching transform people and countries that allow themselves to be educated and taught!

With you, the student SOPHIA BITTENCOURT, in her kind interview:

JV: How do you describe yourself?

SB: I am, Sophia Bittencourt, I am 17 years old, I am a student at the public educational center 05, in the city of Taguatinga-DF. I am in the ninth grade (last high school). Therefore, I have been studying for 9 years and, with this, I can say that I have some notion of what the education and teaching process is.

JV: Do you describe your “new normal”, or new reality as a student, since RESET, which caused the pandemic in the educational and teaching process, forcing the change from face-to-face classes to virtual classes via remote platforms?

SB: My new reality is that in this new distance education process, I am studying intensely about different subjects in the school environment. As some content is being somewhat “superficial”, I need to look for information in addition to what the school provides not only to me but also to all students!

JV: Did your family provide you with means, such as a computer, smartphone, tablet, etc., so that you could follow classes on remote platforms?

SB: Yes. I have the opportunity to access the platforms through the laptop, or even through the cell phone.

JV: Among your friends from the face-to-face classes, do you know if there were classmates who stopped studying because the family did not have or did not have the means to provide the Internet or some other electronic way of monitoring the virtual classes?

SB: I can’t say. But, I know students who needed the cell phone borrowed from their parents to be able to access the platforms.

JV: You are finishing high school. Do you think that what you have gone through in these nine years of study can help you to enter, and put yourself in the Labor Market, or do you consider that all these years of study were very abstract and offer little in practical training?

SB: It is very relative. I never stopped delving into what they told me in the classroom, even if some content did not have a broad focus and had a congruent explanation, I was looking for a new source to be able to improve more on these topics. In life, if we are not proactive in achieving what we want, we will never leave where we are. You can’t wait for life without moving.

JV: Now that you are finishing high school and looking back, do you already have an idea formed about the difference and the importance, between students who dedicate themselves more and those who take primary and secondary school, playing?

SB: What I can say is that not everyone has the opportunity to have a quality education, but it is useless if you have the possibility of having good teaching, but you don’t take advantage of it and you don’t take studying seriously. In that case, each person is responsible for their own destiny!

JV: If you could write a message for yourself and save it in a time capsule, to open 10 years from now, what would be the three wishes for professional and academic achievement that in 2030 you would have liked to fulfill?

SB: Having helped and positively influenced someone in my professional field. To be happy and to feel fulfilled in what I decided to follow my path. May I never lose focus on my goals, which will be guided by my personal purpose.

JV: How did it feel to be invited to participate in the ONBOARD DIARY series?

SB: Very happy for the recognition and the incredible opportunity to participate in something new that our whole society lives, in difficult times.

JV: How was your observation process to make your BOARD DIARY?

SB: I built my JOURNAL secretly and carefully. I used notepad to jot down everything I had observed at the time, just as, somehow, it was conveyed as real and intelligible as possible.

JV: What results would you like to achieve with the reports in your BOARD JOURNAL?

SB: It may result in new changes in distance learning! That with this diary you can influence at least one person and make a difference in the lives of others!

JV: What message do you want to send to students, especially from public schools who, like you, have been forced to adapt to this new reality imposed by this pandemic?

SB: We are going through a difficult, delicate moment, and I know that many people have already thought about or abandoned their studies.

The message I would like to convey to you is that you do not allow that moment to be a dead-end in your life and that in the future it may bring you regrets. Let’s not say, “I could have dedicated myself more, I should have done this, or that …”.

May you never give up on your dreams! Overcoming our failures and difficult moments in life is always a learning process, it is difficult, but with effort, we will achieve it together. May we look back in the future and be proud that even in the most difficult moments, we fight, win, and don’t give up!

JV: Invite people to follow the LOGO DIARY series?

SB: Be sure to follow this wonderful series, in which different perspectives on distance learning will be presented, such as that of a teacher, a school principal, an educational counselor …

There will be different positions on the same topic, which will allow us to broaden our vision and also place ourselves in the place of the next one.

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