From Brasília, the capital of Brazil.
COMING NEXT! A NEW SERIES. “THE ONBOARD DIARY! EDUCATION AND TEACHING RESTARTED BY THE CORONAVIRUS”.
Get ready for the premiere of ONBOARD DIARY. A series with five different perspectives on the educational and teaching process in this pandemic.
I invited a teacher (Gevani Silva), a student (Sophia Bittencourt), an educational supervisor (Katia Silva), a school director (Andreia Bombom), and an educational consultant and psychoanalyst (Kennya Fernandes), to create an ONBOARD DIARY and describe during seven business days of class, each one’s perspective on education and teaching, restarted by the pandemic. All from public schools! They have accepted the invitation and are already working to give you an incredible record, which, keeping the proportions, is useful for any country in the world.
The Coronavirus / COVID-19 pandemic changed everything! The government requires classes through remote platforms. But what are the conditions of these virtual platforms? Is there a suitable place for recording, lighting, ambient sound, and suitable conditions?
How are teachers adjusting? Are they diligent, do they seem to teach, or are some still more lacking than the students themselves? Do they record their videos themselves, or do they fish for them on YouTube, and launch them on the virtual platform, as if they were feeding fish in aquariums?
How do educational supervisors manage to coordinate the functioning of human and material resources, in this new reality of virtual interaction between human beings and machines?
And the educational advisers, who previously attended in-person, to students and parents, how do they perceive this new reality? What are the pros and cons of remote platforms? Those who play roles similar to parents, psychologists, psychoanalysts, how do they perceive this new reality? What are the frequent problems that you identify in the day-to-day life of education and teaching?
What are school principals looking like in classrooms via remote platforms? The government requires adaptation at any cost, but do all families have INTERNET at home? Do the families have “smartphones,” “tablets,” or computers for your children to attend classes? Is the Brazilian Internet good or is it the kind that falls more than leaves in the fall? Do the telephone companies, which promise 2G, 4G, 5G of the Internet, really delivers the promised amount, or do they follow the centuries-old Brazilian culture of making the worst product to sell at the highest price?
What difficulties do school principals face in the management of scarce human and material resources and, nevertheless, in the sum of the gigantic contempt that mayors, governors, councilors, deputies, and other politicians have with education, at the same time as demand effective results?
Or will you say that you are not curious about these topics?
Do not miss, “ONBOARD DIARY”. A series that will introduce some fragments of the new process of modern education and teaching, restarted by the pandemic.
Follow, comment, reproduce, and send to all schools, teachers, students, educational advisers, school supervisors, and school principals. Divided we fall, together we can change chaotic scenarios.
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(translation by the columnist)
