La educación virtual durante la pandemia. Ventajas, desventajas y desafíos

Abstract

This article for reflection refers to the advantages, disadvantages and challenges that the educational community have faced due to the health emergency resulting from an acute (serious) respiratory disease that arose on December 31, 2019. The World Health Organization (WHO) received reports of the presence of pneumonia, of unknown origin, in the city of Wuhan, China. In January 2020, the authorities of that country identified the cause of the strain called Coronavirus, a disease easily spread by close contact with human beings. Due to this situation, the health emergency was declared a global pandemic. This outbreak has led to the closure of public and private institutions, as well as social isolation, paralysis of industries and companies, therefore, unemployment and loss of economic income. According to the DANE report, during 2020 the number of enrolled students was 9,8882,843; Therefore, students who had to undergo a radical change in the way they received classes should carry out virtual education. The objective of this writing is to analyze the impact that virtuality has had during the pandemic; advantages, disadvantages, challenges and challenges that teachers, parents and students were forced to face without being prepared; dusk with face-to-face classes and dawn with virtuality from home, oriented to the formation and teaching of autonomous, flexible and critical learning, promoting metacognition and the integral development of the student; taking into account the particularities of each one.