The imminent arrival of COVID-19 required primary, secondary, and university educational institutions to quickly adapt and use technological platforms. How have you been? We spoke with a high school teacher and a university head.
In schools
David Alejandro Restrepo Giraldo , teacher at Nuestra Señora de Chiquinquirá Parish School, Medellín.
From the classroom to the virtual
When we talk about training, we face several challenges to guarantee comprehensive training and safe learning. In the face-to-face contact remains, the human and the experimental. In the virtual, the concept, the content and the best way to transmit them are prioritized.
The challenges in the crisis
- Efficient and adequate use of Information and Communication Technologies, ICT.
- Raise awareness among the educational community, parents and students, to use the tools and optimize study times at home.
- Set new paradigms.
used platforms
- Educate me from Editorial Norma.
- Google Classroom.
An opportunity for the future
The world will obviously have an economic, social, political and religious turn that presents us with a new educational paradigm, that is, a mental model with other ways of thinking, teaching, learning and solving problems. This will break schemes and will lead us to forge the education that we have demanded for years.
in the universities
Catalina Calle Pineda, head of the CES Virtual area of the CES University.
From the classroom to the virtual
We know that in person we have to coincide in time and place with the actors in the process. On the other hand, in virtuality we have the flexibility to meet through digital scenarios that do not necessarily need synchronization. In addition, the teacher, more than a transmitter of knowledge, is a guide and a motivator; while the role of the student is much more active and autonomous.
The challenges in the crisis
- Migrate the entire academic community to a technology-assisted face-to-face modality.
used platforms
- Zoom.
- teams.
- Moodle.
An opportunity for the future
Adopt technology with a pedagogical support that allows training processes to be carried out while preserving quality. Virtual scenarios open up countless possibilities and alternatives for the entire educational community. Universities will not be the same after this pandemic. This was a call to reinvent ourselves and strengthen educational innovation processes within each of the institutions.
