2020: Technologies in (and for) education

2020: Technologies in (and for) education
Latin America & Caribbean
UruguayUruguay
Book

This book aims to be a contribution to the incorporation of technologies with a pedagogical sense, for the realization of deep learning. The tour of this publication goes through planning, evaluation, virtual course design, generation of teaching materials, tutorials and the teaching role in the new context, visible learning, computational thinking and educational robotics.

2020 has turned the world upside down. The pandemic generated by COVID-19 paralyzed hundreds of activities. From one day to the next the closure of all educational centers left children, adolescents and young people without reference educational spaces. Management teams and teachers quickly looked for alternatives and mediated education became the only option. Technologies became the key tool to alleviate the suspension of face-to-face classes. The existing gaps have deepened, not only between countries with public policies on digital accessibility matters and those in which these processes have been incipient or null, but also between students with full access to technologies and those who were isolated for months. Although it was conceived before the start of the pandemic, several of its chapters were written during this process, which undoubtedly has strongly affected the experts who have participated in this publication, people who are references in their countries and in the region. on key issues related to education and technologies.

Posted: 2020-12-08

Complete book in PDF in Spanish https://publicaciones.flacso.edu.uy/index.php/edutic/issue/view/1/1