As we go walking- "Hacer camino al andar" by Sofía Heim

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How did you cope with all the changes that took place during 2020-2021 regarding CoViD19?

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How challenging did you find learning to use new technologies?

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Mariela Leon

2021-09-08 02:21:22 UTC

At the beginning it was quite difficult for me to keep up with everything. I didn't have Internet connection so I wasn't able to provide virtual lessons regularly. However, I tried to be in touch with my students as much as I could.
I was also facing a high-risk pregnancy and I never stopped working.
I was glad when 2020 was over.

Mariela Leon

2021-09-08 02:25:32 UTC

I didn't find it difficult. I have always been interested in technology. I do assume that this pandemic has led me to investigate more about apps I had never used before.

Miriam Novillo Hall

2021-09-08 14:38:15 UTC

This pandemic caused, unquestionably, a change as regard as our idea of education. It was hard to face the fact that we weren´t prepared to cope with this new situation. In addition we realized the huge educational inequalities that we had in the educational system.

How to cope with all these changes? It is a complex task but we always try to do our best. It comes to my mind something Rita Pierson said in TED Talks Education “Every child needs a champion”:

“teachers become great actors and great actresses, and we come to work when we don't feel like it, and we're listening to policy that doesn't make sense, and we teach anyway. We teach anyway, because that's what we do”

I think this is what teachers did and continue doing. We teach anyway with the tools we have and making an enormous effort

Miriam Novillo Hall

2021-09-08 14:48:19 UTC

^{It was hard for me because I was not aware of the large number of digital tools, applications and programs available in relation to education. I had to learn very quickly how to work with them.}

Miriam Novillo Hall

2021-09-08 19:11:30 UTC

_{This pandemic made us realize that we live in a hyper-connected world and leads us to reflect on what we can learn in this new scenario. Innovation in education that used to be slow and isolated becomes a fast process of learning new teaching techniques. These new strategies are already part of a new generation of teachers both in the formal education system and in our daily life, learning in community. The ideal school for teenagers today includes having a choice about what to learn or how to do it. This also tells us that we have to teach students to organize their homework and to learn how to learn.}

2021-09-08 19:35:42 UTC

Miriam Novillo Hall _{Lockdown in this pandemic scenario pushed us towards remote teaching. The transition from face to face teaching to online teaching was super-fast and nobody (students and teachers) could easily adapt to that process. All the educational community was brave because they were working on unfamiliar field. However the achievements were substantially enormous.}

_{On the other side there were also negative issues to take into account. Lockdown was imposed in many places and it forced students to face new realities as regards their learning process. Even now with the return to face to face classes teachers have to deal with for example, the length of lesson time and take into account that they may have students that did not received (or barely received) instruction in almost two years.}

Karina Cambarieri

2021-09-09 05:53:25 UTC

_I_{n the first place, it took me a long time to establish communication with the students and their families because I didn't know them, therefore, with the help of my classmates, a WhatsApp group was set up to collect information and keep us informed. Then, when I was able to communicate with all the students, I started giving my lessons. In addition, I had to re-plan all the classes and activities because the ones I had thought about before the pandemic didn't suit in the new scenario. 
In second place, the most complicated and priority was to maintain and sustain the affective bond with all the students since some lacked the technological means to receive or do the activities.
Last year was a difficult time for both teachers and students. Every difficulty that arose I was able to overcome this year. I learned from my mistakes, therefore starting the 2021 school year online or in person was not that complicated for me.
Personally, the positive of 2020 was that, I learned to use educational platforms and various technological strategies.
The negative is that not all students have computers, notebooks, cellphones  and internet.}

Karina Cambarieri

2021-09-09 06:25:40 UTC

_{I agree that this pandemic made students and families revalue school and the work of teachers.
Taking the example mentioned in the video, "just as treasures appeared on the beach after the tide, so appeared the problems." For example, students who didn't communicate with the teachers, others who didn't carry out tasks because they didn't have a family follow-up and others who for particular reasons couldn't receive or do the classes and activities.}

Karina Cambarieri

2021-09-09 06:43:42 UTC

_{At first it was quite difficult, I had to learn quickly educational technology.
In particular, that part was the only positive last year.}

Karina Cambarieri

2021-09-09 07:53:55 UTC

_{In this interview, they mention that there were differences in skills, Internet connectivity, equipment and training.
Therefore, teachers are now in a better position to use technology to aid in language learning. They think teachers are lifelong learners in general. They are exceptional people. They think that you can't be a teacher and survive the realities of the classroom if you are not a learner. They are not just about technology; they talk about lifelong learning in general.
Also, everything that happened has been a huge change in mindset and the teachers went from "I can't" to "I can" when it comes to technology, which is an incredible achievement. However, they do mention some things negatives. For example, the confinement forced the students to adapt quickly to a reality they were not used to, the teachers also had to adapt very quickly and in many cases without support. Although now things are returning to normal in many countries, there are still problems with the length of the lessons. In many countries many students receive short lessons. They wonder what the effect of this will be on these students, since education in the early stages of a person's life is of crucial importance and has a great impact on the development of the individual.
Also, while many students have adjusted and finally continued with their education, there have been many students who have not been attending online lessons, they have not engaged with remote learning with the same kind of participation that was expected. Therefore, what happens most often is that low-income students are at a greater disadvantage due to the pandemic compared to their more affluent peers. Sophia notes that one of the most critical opportunity gaps is unequal access to technology devices and Internet access, which are vital for remote learning.}

First I tried to steablesh contact with all my students. Then, I began delivering online lessons which at the beginning were really hard because they were very differetne from the faceto face lessons. I learnt a lot by watching other teachers in youtube, investigating about apps that could make classes more attractive. For the students who couldn't participate in the classes becuase of the situatutions we all know, Iprepared lots of material which I send them via whatsapp.

2021-09-09 17:01:22 UTC

New technologies

2021-09-09 17:04:10 UTC

It wasn't that hard for me to use new technologies because I have always been a fan! In fact I had used Google Classroom before the pandemic and I'd always taught using PPT presentations in the class.

Mariana Bellina

2021-09-09 20:22:46 UTC

I should come across this text at the beginning of this year! It was really hard for me to combine face to face classes with virtual ones, to motivate students to keep it up even though we saw ech other every three weeks. There are lots of students who never came back to school or were so demotivated that it was almost impossible for me to apply any new strategy. I felt fustrated but now, that we are coming back in whole groups I hope things improve.

Sandra Beatriz Navarrete

2021-09-09 21:54:09 UTC

At the beginning of the Pandemic everything was confusing at school; we had never been trained to use technology of any kind and from one day to the next we had to use Platforms that we never knew before. But as many collegues we had to learn by doing, and searching for info in the Internet. Hence, I learned to use Classroom and not only interact with my students by using my Gmail, which was always full of mails of students and their productions. That was a crazy time, too much work. I checked my students´work and sent it back at weekends and along the day no matter the time.
Anyway, Youtube was great help at that moment, and so I learned about apps and other techno tips, also learned about links and tutorials to enrich my work and I hope I did the best I could do. But I tell you there´s a world of new things related to e-education and e-learning that many of us do not know and it would be great to learn about that. Thanks for this opportunity to share our experiences. Sandra.

Mariela Leon

2021-09-10 02:27:42 UTC

I like this text a lot. It has provided me with answers to questions I have had since we were told schools would close.
I think that coming back to teaching whole groups will be challenging since there are lots of students who haven't been attending lessos during this year and some have not even attended virtual lessons last year. We will need to do our best to get those students to feel motivated again so they can finish this year better.

Mariela Leon

2021-09-10 12:20:44 UTC

I agree with her perspective. This pandemic brought us the opportunity to innovate our teaching practice and it also encouraged us to work collaboratively. However, it also presented us with situations that were hard to handle.
I believe that students will remember this part of their Education forever as it was challenging for eveyone.

Mariela Leon

2021-09-10 12:44:13 UTC

In this interview, speakers present positive and negative aspects of this pandemic.
Among positive aspects I highlight the fact that teachers are lifelong learners which means that we never stop learning and we can adapt to different teaching contexts.
Among negative aspects I would like to highlight the fact that there has been a considerable amount of students that have stopped attending lessons which means that their education has been disrupted.

vivianacaceres — 2021-09-10 14:44:03 UTC

In fact at the very begining I was quite shocked because I didn't know how to manage in that particular situation. To be honest, I' m not a big fan of technology .It was really hard for me.However, I got down to work and I started to watch videos and learn how to use different technological tools.
As time went by, I realized that I only could communicate with few students .Not all of them could connect; using mails or WhatsApp and that made me feel frustated.
Afterwards, Classroom helped us to continue our process of virtual teaching and learning although I was overwhelmed by activities and corrections all day long.
IN 2021 , when we met in face to face lessons every 15 days , I found Confused and isolated students therefore I felt the need to socialize each other again.
Taking everything into account,( as i always say: )" EVERY CLOUD HAS A SILVER LINING", I made up with technology and I I acquired new knowledges about this new era.

María Gabriela Barrios

2021-09-10 17:59:08 UTC

I tried to do what I thought was best for the students at the time. Practical work, detailed explanations. Sometimes I send worksheets in the hope that the students would solve them. but the reality is that there was not much support from the family in virtuality

María Gabriela Barrios

2021-09-10 18:18:00 UTC

I agree that this pandemic made us realize a reality that was not visible, or that was not given importance, inequality and the lack of basic needs. At the same time, it gave us the opportunity to reinvent ourselves as teachers. It also made us realize that we live in a hyper-connected world

María Gabriela Barrios

2021-09-10 18:19:50 UTC

At first it was overwhelming, but as I became more familiar with the platforms, I calmed down and I was able to do my job better. It wasn't difficult, it was just new

María Gabriela Barrios

2021-09-10 19:26:12 UTC

In the interview, the positive and negative aspects of this pandemic are presented.
Of the positive aspects prevailing the fact that teachers are lifelong learners, we never stop learning and we can adapt to different teaching contexts.
Of the negative aspects, I highlight the fact that there has been a considerable number of students who have stopped attending classes, which means that their education has been interrupted and the little support of the families in this aspect

María Gabriela Barrios

2021-09-10 19:36:14 UTC

I found the text very useful. Since we were told that schools would close, we have had to reinvent ourselves so as not to leave our students adrift. It is overwhelming, perhaps out of fear or paranoia, to go back to teaching entire groups, students who have not been to school for a year and a half. I find it difficult for students to motivate themselves with the return to class

For me it was very hard at first for several reasons. I didn't have a laptop computer (mine had broken down the year before and I hadn't been able to buy a new one), just a desktop, and my children and I had to take it in turns to use it at home. At the beginning, I wasn't able to buy one because computer shops were closed and shopping online wasn't available so my mum lent me hers as she wasn't using it. Once I had solved the problem of getting a laptop, the new challenge to overcome was getting familiar with the use of Classroom, Zoom or Google Meet and designing activities for students to do online. At times, I felt overwhelmed by all the context we were immersed in, the extra hours I worked at home at after-school timetables and all the changing resolutions and demands coming from the Education authorities. I felt that nobody cared for our mental health. (Daniela Obreque)

2021-09-10 20:10:52 UTC

I agree with Melina Furman. The pandemic has led us to reflect upon our teaching practice and finding new ways of facilitating knowledge to our students. I had to plunge into the world of IT and get familiar with new apps and programmes I had never used before. Another thing I'd like to highlight is that families became aware of how essential our role as teachers is and that teaching is not as simple as many people believe. Last but not least, this pandemic has shown us that links among us are important and that everyone is in the same boat, which implies that we get out of it as a whole, not by ourselves. (Daniela Obreque)

2021-09-10 23:32:27 UTC

It was a new challenge, hard at first, but I could overcome it as soon as I got the devices to carry on with online lessons. I learnt to use some tools by tutorials and I did some courses related to new technologies applied to education. However, I was very reluctant at the very beginning concerning virtual teaching/learning. (Daniela Obreque)

2021-09-11 00:00:49 UTC

lucialulalagos — 2021-09-11 00:44:29 UTC

I found the text very engaging! This whole covid situation really turned the world upside down but at the same time I think it brought us many new things to learn from as well as different ways of doing it. In my particular case, luckily, it was not difficult for me to work with technology but I did notice that it is not the same: from the student who does not have a computer to be able to work better in virtual classes, the student who does not have internet, the one who connects in the zoom but turns off his camera and the teacher does not know if he is really witnessing the class or not...There are many factors that in a certain way did not favor teaching and some others that in turn gave us new tools and even new self-learnings that I think that is the most important thing that we must highlight of this crazy reality that we are living today.

The podcast is about the transition between face-to-face and online education during the first lockdown and how teachers and students had to adapt quickly to a new forced reality. It also speaks about how our role as life-long learners helped us pass from "I can't" to "I can" as regards dealing with new technologies in teaching. Some drawbacks are also mentioned in this podcast, such as absentism due to opportunity gaps like uneven access to technological devices and the Internet. Inequalities have been exacerbated due to the pandemic. Teachers being overworked and students' distraction are also mentioned as negatives. (Daniela Obreque)

2021-09-11 00:52:45 UTC

lucialulalagos — 2021-09-11 00:59:07 UTC

At first working with technology was not difficult for me. But I was frustrated by the fact that as the months passed by the students became more demotivated every day, of course that always led me to look for new ways to regain their desire to participate in virtual classes, but still, not all had the same enthusiasm. I always made sure to do the classes through explanatory and didactic videos where they could see me and hear me, to not lose the connection with them and that they knew that their teacher was on the other side just like them and WITH them. The return to class was as if we were at the beginning of the year all over again, but I am grateful that it happened because I realized that they need the presence not only to learn but also to be heard and communicate in an space where they can feel accompanied in case they need it.

Karina Cambarieri

2021-09-11 01:00:57 UTC

Reading the article I remembered situations and experiences from last year.
We teachers really had to reinvent ourselves and learn to teach outside of school.
The challenge was to organize ourselves, keep us all communicated and not lose the bond with any of the students. Unfortunately, there were students who were excluded, although attempts were made anyway to reach them, situations that were difficult to overcome arose.
Now that we are in face-to-face classes and there are no bubbles or groups, we find students who have adapted to the virtual format and are having a hard time recovering the rhythm.
Now that we are all together at school, I agree with what the article says, about proposing coexistence activities and gradually adding the curricular content that they have to learn.

lucialulalagos — 2021-09-11 01:17:16 UTC

I agree a lot with Melina, to begin with when she talks about we are in a kind of "global educational experiment", it really felt like that. I also agree that although this pandemic took away and prohibited us a lot, at the same time it brought us many things and made us realize many others. In the case of us teachers, it forced us to look for new ways and strategies when teaching and in return gave us this toolbox that she talks about. And as she rightly says, in the case of parents, it teach them how difficult it is to be a good teacher and educate a person. But I am left with that reality: how much we, society, need the school and the teachers.

lucialulalagos — 2021-09-11 01:24:45 UTC

Luckily I am self-taught and it was never difficult for me to use technology, so my challenge more than anything was to find new tools and ways to capture the attention of my students when teaching them, taking into account the frustration they had for this whole situation. and demotivation. I think technology is a great tool once you learn to use it for good!

lucialulalagos — 2021-09-11 01:37:27 UTC

It has been a huge change in mindset and I totally agree that teachers are lifelong learners. On the negative side, it is true that inequalities have been exacerbated. Teachers are overworked and at a certain point the education of students has been interrupted, something that in the long run, of course negatively affects teaching / learning.

Mariana Bellina

2021-09-11 14:12:38 UTC

I think the pandemic brought a disaster as regards educaction. However, standing in the same perspective as the girl in the video, I think that it represented a challenge to all teachers and demanded to revise our teaching practice. Thanks to pandemic I leanrt a lot about ICT and my students too. Let's look at the positive side

Mariana Bellina

2021-09-11 14:25:19 UTC

They talk about the two faces of remote teaching and learning. On the one hand, it was a huge progress in teaching and learning, because it developed many skills on tstudents and teachers. However, there were many realities that made remote learnign excluisve for some students and teachers. Teachers in some cases, lack of support and had lots of dificulties in keeping up with remote teaching. Morevover many students decided not to attend online lessons becuase they didn't want to.

How challenging did you find learning to use new technologies?

teacherjohanna62 — 2021-09-12 15:13:36 UTC

I didn't find it difficult. I really enjoy making use of technology. Due to this pandemic, I could make use of different technological resources and I learnt how to use many online tools. The greatest problem I faced was that most of my students (70%) didn't have internet access since they live in fruit farms. So, I couldn't use technology as much as I wished. -Johanna Burgos

teacherjohanna62 — 2021-09-12 15:14:35 UTC

Rocio Sanabria

rociosanabria00 — 2021-09-12 15:16:45 UTC

I found the article very interesting. As a teacher, in my opinion, I think that with "the absence of having face to face interactions" during the pandemic, has really meant something...In the way that people finally began to pay attetion how important schools and teachers are for the students. Education has been the focus of our society.

Rocio Sanabria

rociosanabria00 — 2021-09-12 15:24:45 UTC

It's been a hard work. But I think that we can handle anything with love and patiente. We have learnt many new things in order to improve our system of education. We have adopted new manners of teaching, tried to use different materials and resources. We have applied new methods and techniques. For example, the use of technology has been one of the main resources that helped us to do so.

The use of technology

rociosanabria00 — 2021-09-12 15:33:07 UTC

Being a teacher is a challenge... But as regard this question, in my personal opinion it was not difficult how to use new technologies, but how to make students being part of this new type of learning. I guess that was the most difficult issue for most of us.
Rocio Sanabria

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rociosanabria00 — 2021-09-12 15:37:03 UTC

I really agree.
I think that is it very important for teachers to start paying attention on our students' interest, to make a confortable classroom where there is a good atmosphere and each of them feels part of...
We must put our students at the centre of this process of teaching-learning

Rocio Sanabria

rociosanabria00 — 2021-09-12 19:04:53 UTC

This interview focused on how education has been affected by the pandemic. There are two speakers who tells us about their own perspectives ,how this has come to positive and negative results. For example, they agreed that teachers had made an effort in order to adapt to this new way of teaching. And how difficult was for some children to improve their cognitive development.

2021-09-12 22:50:34 UTC

I have to say that at the beginning it wasn´t easy for me to adapt myself to the use of these new technologies, without a previous and total knowledge of them. I really had to reinvented myself and try to do my best and I´m happy to say that I´ve learned a lot, alone and also with my colleagues´ help. I think it was a time to learn, to learn for us and what´s more important, for our students. Marcela Varas

mluzdavico — 2021-09-12 23:01:16 UTC

Technology hasn´t been an obstacle for me at all. I've always been interested in it even before the pandemia, but this especial situation has encouraged me to research about methology and look for more apps to make my classes more interesting and motivating.

At the beginning of this worldwide pandemia, teachers and students went through difficult times until together we found an organizing way of teaching and studying. Everything seemed chaos but luckily today’s we can see how much we have learned all this way. Countries and schools worldwide have shown us how they have created and adapted new ways of organization in order to keep education as a priority taking into account students and teachers´ health of course.Today´s hybrid classrooms, in Argentina, vary widely according to the subject matter taught and the needs of specific groups of learners. But is interesting to highlight how creative and how fast have teachers adapted their lesson plannings to this new way of working online. So this education initiative has allowed us to create more engaging learning experiences for students.

2021-09-12 23:14:04 UTC

Paula Álvarez

paulaivanaalvarez — 2021-09-12 23:39:47 UTC

In my case the transition into digital classroom was immediately. I was able to use different tools, apps and resources but it was the first time in front of a virtual class. I remember spending my free time checking homework and planning lessons to keep students engaged and motivated. It has been a challenging and demanding year but it was also an opportunity to learn and grow professionally.

mluzdavico — 2021-09-12 23:40:36 UTC

In accordance with what my partners have stated, this podcast is about how education has been affected by de pandemic. The two speakers point out that in spite of all the achievements teachers, students, families and institutions have accomplished there is still a gap that must be bridged. The real challenge today is bridging the gap to a more pedagogical and inclusive reality. The speakers say we are going through a more mature phase on emergency remote teaching, but we still have to enhance some pedagogical aspects related to materials, students learning, students distraction when working on line and their dislike, as well as teachers workload. (María Luz Davico)

Paula Álvarez

paulaivanaalvarez — 2021-09-12 23:45:30 UTC

Experimenting with new resources and aproaches was a positive aspect of distance learning, an unexpected chance to grow and innovate. I totally agree with Melina. Paying attention to our students´interests is necessary. Each of them carries out a different learning process.

Paula Álvarez

paulaivanaalvarez — 2021-09-12 23:47:45 UTC

Using new technology wasn´t difficult for me. I enjoy working with applications and new programs. I agree that we´ve learnt much more about it.

Paula Álvarez

paulaivanaalvarez — 2021-09-12 23:49:10 UTC

Nice podcast! A clear photography of how our experience during the pandemic has been.

Paula Álvarez

paulaivanaalvarez — 2021-09-12 23:51:49 UTC

I found the article very interesting. As many teachers, I have reinvented myself during the pandemic. Now, the new challenge is to take advantage of students coming back as whole groups and rethink our practices.

Victoria Aybar

2021-09-13 00:28:40 UTC

The text has good questions to help us to think and compare our contexts in general terms. My experience as teacher of CEPJA in Ñorquin-có was that all my students don’t have access to internet or phones with Android, most of them are adults and it wasn’t easy to me: I tried to build a bond for they know I was present when they need me, that they weren’t alone and the school was going to back as soon as possible and it happened this year. The constant uncertainty is worry but with the other teachers, we try to make the most of days when we are in the shcool. I like the suggestion that have a day for organize the activities and share tools but we haven’t time enough for this work paid in CEPJA.

The challenge is order the communicational channels with other teachers, with students and families to work together in a hybrid modality useful for each of us in order to keep the quality of public education.

Victoria Aybar

2021-09-13 00:57:18 UTC

I felt alone at the first time, I lost my dog he was like a human son to me. Then there was very uncertain times, in winter Ñorquin-có suffered a terrible snowfall, and I lost the communication with my students, it was hard. I tried to be present and write each of my students an specific day of the week but answer their questions the rest of the days. This year we returned with happiness and we tried to guarantee the sanitary protocol in order to promote the trust in the school as a safety place.

Victoria Aybar

2021-09-13 01:16:11 UTC

I don’t have difficult with new technologies, I could pay by myself a new computer (the old one was stolen) and an internet service at home but I know teachers that don’t have the same lucky. I understand that it is easy when you have resources but when you don’t have them you are out. It is hard to buy new technology, everything is expensive and our salaries don’t cover it.

I liked the article, I found it relatable. I agree that teachers had to reinvent teaching, but at the same time I think that this hybrid education is here to stay. I found some advantages of online education, and at the moment, back in the real classroom, I am using some tools that were incorporated during 2020 lockdown. (Just in case, my name is Adriana Aragón)

aeraragon — 2021-09-13 05:18:43 UTC

Adriana Aragon. At the beginning of the lockdown I didn't think it was going to take as long as it finally did. However, I had begun introducing technology in the English classes in 2019. For example, I had assigned a group work about some English speaking countries, and in order to do it, I divided the students and I created whatsapp groups that I administered and followed. Students had to share their contribution and work together at school. The results were very good, since most students engaged immediately and found the activity different and appealing. All in all, that 2019 experience helped both my students and me to communicate more fluently at the beginning of the lockdown. However, a group of students either couldn't be reached or chose not to answer their teachers' contact

aeraragon — 2021-09-13 05:32:25 UTC

I agree! we learn every day different things ,especially we as Teachers we learn new technologies ways of teching

natycasa_78 — 2021-09-13 13:55:55 UTC

It was difficult at the first time because I had to learn new ways of teaching ,but after a time I found very interesting contents to teach for my students

natycasa_78 — 2021-09-13 13:58:28 UTC

vivianacaceres — 2021-09-13 15:49:35 UTC

I wish I had read this text at the beginning of this pandemia where we didnt have the slightest idea of how going on at schools.
I totally agree with the text which suggests to renew our strategies as educators , to learn ; not only about technogy and to take good decisions in this uncertain situation.
Everybody has learnt something about this unknown experience, positive or negative learning. Basically the most important point is that we tried hard to renovate our plans.

vivianacaceres — 2021-09-13 16:28:21 UTC

I totally agree with her! I think that every hard moment in life ,always teach us something new.

vivianacaceres — 2021-09-13 16:41:46 UTC

It was a big challenge for me! I was not used to manage technology. So, it gave me the opportunity to learn and I became a big fan of it!! I spent time surfing and watching tutorials about how to use different resources availables in order to get my students engaged in my virtual lessons. VIVIANA CACERES

Alejandra Marks

2021-09-13 18:04:41 UTC

During pandemic I had to face with many challenges regarding my own life style and the way I teach my students. I had to learn about different tecnological tools, strategies and resources in order to delivery my lessons and keep in contact with children and families. The biggest challenge was to keep students motivated to learn in the virtual world.
Alejandra Marks

Sandra Beatriz Navarrete

2021-09-13 19:54:30 UTC

I think this is a very interesting article as it states some important issues, such as the role of school as an essential institution and the role of teachers within societies. This text deals with different topics related to our return to school and the way we must teach our students from now on according to the reality we will find there. It requires that we rethink our practices and reinvent ourselves due to the reality of our students and the course of the pandemic. On the other hand, we must not forget our students have had a hard time trying to catch up with the contents, to aquire autonomy that can be intimidating for those who lacked time management skills or those students who did not have a computer or any other technological support. Hence, as the article states, we must establish a prioritary curriculum that contemplates these factors in which we must modify our practices, and take advantage of those strategies and tools that worked for us at 2020 and use them to help and foster our students in their learning processes the best we can.

Sandra Beatriz Navarrete

2021-09-13 20:10:16 UTC

I agree with Melina. Her questions are shared for many of us. We realized how things have been developing and how people started to show their skills ; students also have realized how important is to have social interaction with their peers, how relevant is to organize their time to be productive. Other students have been affected by this lack of contact with others but paradoxically a world hyperconnected. We as teachers were forced to use technology that we had never used before just because we have been tied to traditional models. We all started to share our knowledge and so many of us grew in our practices, which is fabulous.

Sandra Beatriz Navarrete

2021-09-13 20:15:50 UTC

I found it a bit difficult since we had never been instructed in the use of TICs. In the blink of an eye we had to start using platforms and a number of technological devices that, personally, I didn´t know that existed. Thanks to Youtube!! as their tutorials helped me a lot!., otherwise, I would have been in trouble. Anyway, this is great debt that the education system has with teachers. That´s for sure!.

Sandra Beatriz Navarrete

2021-09-13 20:47:49 UTC

This podcast deals with different aspects to have in mind as to the pandemic and the way it affected the learning community. Probably the most outstanding aspects referred to in this audio is the teachers capacity to adapt in this reality even though we were /are overworked, and also on the part of the students as the lockdown was impossed they had to adapt very quickly, and do not forget that many were easily distracted online while others have not been engaged online. Now as things are getting back to normal we have to consider those students who did not keep in touch with their teacher and do not have the rhythm or the exposure that is expected to have. Daniel mentions that in his own country lessons have been reduced in length and they do not know what the impact will be in the life of those students; finally, he states that those who have the technological devices will eventually take advantage over those who lack the technology and I think he´s absolutely right.

Victoria Aybar

2021-09-13 21:49:24 UTC

I think all crisis time, like this pandemic, makes all workers reinvent our practices. We are living a historic ecology - economic- social crisis product of the capitalism system: the school, the public education is not out of this context. I wonder all the time why and what we are teaching, what kind of world we want for our students, if we give them the neccesary tools for living in a better place. Sometimes some words sound pretty but the real world is not, there is too much violence (the social inequality is violence) that the school needs to be a place where we can walk, learn from each other without this violence, ignore or pretend it doesn’t exist is a mistake to me.

The hyper connected world is a challenge because most of students don´t have access to internet, phones or computer in urban and rural contexts, and we must to give them tools equally and review all the time our practices for it. The school and the teachers that help to our students and ourselves to think are completely necessary in this crisis time.

Victoria Aybar

2021-09-13 22:08:45 UTC

The podcast presented possitive and negative aspects of pandemic, teachers have the capacity of adapt in this context and have an open view of the social inequality that helps to think better teaching practices. I like and share that educators are life-long learners and we can make an auto-critic of the old practices in order to continue learning.

Trecanao Mónica

2021-09-13 23:26:44 UTC

We, teachers had to prepare in March to work with students in a same year but different levels, this happened because lots of students didn't participate in many lessons in 2020, so at the beginning of 2021, it was really a challenge worked with them! They didn't learn much.

Trecanao Mónica

2021-09-13 23:37:19 UTC

2020 was a difficult year to manage as regard teaching. In one of the school, where I work, the executive team decided to make agrupamientos, so we had to make written assigments with other subjects. It was a challenge, because we didn't have any training. We did our best, but it didn't work very well. Not only was difficult for us, but also for students.
This year, we met students who didn'tdo much last year, so we had to teach again and practice the same topics than in 2020, we tried to solved their doubts and helped them. Many of them, had lost the training of studying and doing some practice. Now, that we are at school, happy inn our classroom, we are doing our best, trying to motivate our students!

Trecanao Mónica

2021-09-13 23:42:43 UTC

I didn't find it difficult, before the pandemic, I've taken some workshops and my training teacher at the university motivate us to learn! So, I when we had to use technology in different lessons, I didn't have problems!

Trecanao Mónica

2021-09-13 23:53:05 UTC

As I was listening to her, I felt again that feeling of uncertainty that felt last year!
Thinking in those students who didn't have any virtual connection, or in those students with family problems!
So I hope we can build that SCHOOL, students need! Argentina need a new school!

Trecanao Mónica

2021-09-14 00:12:52 UTC

Positive
Teachers and students did the best. It was a challenge for both.

Negative
Learners suffered a negative effect, and they tried to adapt.
Those students who didn't be online o did activities are in different level, regarding those students had an active participation.
The access to devices, made those levels be more different!
Teachers did their best, and sometimes without support.

marcevaras1 — 2021-09-14 02:37:27 UTC

Very interesting article! In my case, It was really difficult at the beginning to get in touch with my students. Most of them didn´t appear at virtual classes, and this made me feel dissapointed. Besides this, very few students did the activities in classroom, so it was really a hard time for us teachers, now they are coming to school, we have a real communication and they like this...

Miriam Novillo Hall

2021-09-14 21:21:18 UTC

I believe everything changed after the pandemic. And made us reflect on our task as educators. We had to look beyond the classroom, understood and deal with new kind of problems. In the matter of fact there are students that have been absent from education for over a year. The question is then, “how am I going to take these students from where they are to where they need to be?” It is complicated but not impossible. I look forward to keep working using as many old and new strategies as I can.

Virtual lessons

2021-09-15 02:13:07 UTC

About virtual lessons... it wasn`t so a dramatic change to me, because I like working with new technology and it was a new challenge for me. It was difficult for our students because some of them didn`t have internet al home so we had to send them written activities with explanation. A lot of them said they didn`t understand virtual lessons, they need being at school face to face with the teachers, but in spite of all the context I think we did the best, we stayed teaching with our own bit sources from our houses.

Changes more changes

2021-09-15 02:19:49 UTC

I think as Laura, I tried to do my best too, internet connection interrupted all the time in my zoom meetings or when I was having an oral exam with some students by whassap. It was very difficult working like that
Liliana Viyerio

video

2021-09-15 02:35:37 UTC

I agree with all !!! all the comments an ideas are what happened with us, We lernt new ways to teach, we used technology ,some of us, with fear but always giving the best. Families were angry with us sometimes because their chidren weren t at school an others were grateful with us. It was difficult for all of us but I think we grew as humans beings. Our pupils did a great effort too.
liliana viyerio

new technologies

2021-09-15 02:39:19 UTC

I didn`t find difficult either becasuse as Laura I`ve already applied them in my lessons to motivate my pupils. But some teachers were afraid about finding new ways to teach using technologies they didn`t know about.

a view about world pandemic

2021-09-15 03:01:37 UTC

She thinks it was a tremendous progress to all the education community regarding they all continued teaching, a lot of times with luck of supports. Pandemic demostrated all around the world the social differences to students`education access.
All the education community teachers, families and student had to adapt very quickly to the huge change from face to face to virtual lessons. It was difficult for all.
liliana viyerio

As we go walking...

2021-09-15 03:11:29 UTC

We go walking on an strage new pandemic education world doing our own path with beautiful moments and awfull others, but always learning about all this.
liliana viyerio

interview

2021-09-15 03:15:39 UTC

She said teachers were brave, and all educational community providied continuity. I strongly agree with that
liliana viyerio

new material

2021-09-15 03:17:28 UTC

All new material is usefull to learn new skills and theories ...
liliana viyerio

Renzo Ocaña

2021-09-15 15:44:07 UTC

I believe that this text has many good points. Unquestionably, virtuality is here to stay forever. However, we as teachers have to keep on developing and thinking of new dynamic strategies that catch the attention of our students. Definitely, the most relevant point in this text for me is to keep reinventing as a teacher.

Renzo Ocaña

2021-09-15 16:02:43 UTC

During the pandemic I tried to do what I supposed that was the best way to learn for my students. I had to learn how to use many new tools that I had no idea how to use them. Absolutely, the most challenging task was to keep my students motivated and interested in the subject.

I really liked the text. I found it very interesting. I believe that coming back to school with the whole groups will be challenging because most of the students haven't been attending virtual lessons. They didn't feel motivated. So, teachers have to do our best to catch students attention. (Romina Carabajal).

2021-09-16 21:45:11 UTC

I tried to do my best to improve the virtual lessons and to keep in touch with those students who didn´t have internet connection. (Romina Carabajal)

2021-09-16 21:48:04 UTC

This pandemic situation made us think about the important role of education. Teachers had to rediscover and redesign lessons and the way to teach. This pandemic situation forced us to innovate the teaching practice. (Romina Carabajal)

2021-09-16 21:53:49 UTC

I didn´t find it difficult. I used to apply technology in my lessons before the pandemic. I learned to use new tools to improve the virtual lessons. (Romina Carabajal)

2021-09-16 21:58:12 UTC

This podcast shows some positive and negative aspects of pandemic. Positive aspects: -Education made a tremendous progress regarding remote teaching. Teachers and students learned to adapt to this new situation. Negative aspect: Unfortunately, a great number of students didn´t have the opportunity to attend virtual lessons. (Romina Carabajal)

2021-09-16 22:07:49 UTC

It was hard to come back to school, many students and teachers were anxious and didn't feel motivated enough to this new challenging of 2021. I believe that we always do our best and together we can deal with all the obstacles on our way as always did. Romero Laura Cecilia

laura_ce_romero — 2021-09-17 12:44:06 UTC

NancyTr0nc0s0 — 2021-09-17 14:18:40 UTC

The text describes some of the different problems we have faced as consequence of the pandemic. It talks about hybrid learning, and the difficulties it carries to those students who do not have an internet connection or technological devices. It also mentions the importance of take into account the community welfare and learning achievements. At the begging of the school term, our subject, made a student survey to get to know the reality of our students. Some of them live in rural areas, where there is little internet signal, and others do not have any technological devices at all.
Based on that reality, I organice my lesson plans using different formats: copies left in at a shop, educational platforms, e-mails, whatsapp as a way of communication. The most important issue is not to lose contact with our students, and let them know that they are important for us. (Nancy Troncoso).

NancyTr0nc0s0 — 2021-09-17 14:36:30 UTC

It has been a difficult situation. At the begginig of the pandemic,. I had to re-invent my lessons, try to do my best, provide my personal phone number to my students to get in touch. There was no fixed timetable to connect with them. I had to use new technological devices. it was quite stressful. (Nancy Troncoso).

NancyTr0nc0s0 — 2021-09-17 15:03:31 UTC

As she says in the video, we are living a new historical moment. This new context has been a new challenge for us as educators. We had to reinvent our lessons, and start teaching in a remote mode. We have adapted the curricula to different realities and teaching contexts. As we always do... We do our best for our students. (Nancy Troncoso).

NancyTr0nc0s0 — 2021-09-17 15:12:09 UTC

Personally, I didn´t have many difficulties dealing with technology. I have made different courses to attempt to integrate technology in the classroom. The main problem I had, was that i did not have a good internet connection, so that made very dificult my labor. (Nancy Troncoso).

NancyTr0nc0s0 — 2021-09-17 16:17:43 UTC

Interview- Main ideas:
The ELT community made tremendous progress regarding remote teaching and the use of technology in general.
Transition face to face to on-line lessons happened.
Teachera are now in a better position to use technology to assist language learning. Teachers are lifelong learners in general.
It´s been a huge change of mindset and teachers moved from "Ican´t" to "I can" with regards as technology.
The pandemic carried negative consequences such as:
learning and development have been interrupted and disrupted for millions os students around the world.
A report by the "Economic Policy Institute" maintains that reduced learning has likely impeded students learning.
students adapted to a reality that they were not used to, very quicky as well as teachers.
there have been many thousands of students who have given in absenteeism. They haven´t been on-line attending lessons.
Low income students have been put at a bigger disadvantage because of the pandemic.
The most critical opportunity gaps is the uneven access to the internet, which are vital for remote learning.
We are still in some kind of emergency mode beacuse there are still gaps with the pedagogy, there re gaps with the materials. (Nancy Troncoso).

2021-09-17 23:15:56 UTC

It has really been a difficult time. At the beginning both students and we, teachers, felt overwhelmed by the situation, especially those, like me, that didn´t have any idea in some aspects of electronic tools.
Suddenly we had to face techonology , when we had never been trained to use it. I think that that was a big mistake from the Education authorities.
I had to learn how to use a new platform, and sometimes I went really crazy when I couln´t upload some games or another kind of activities.
I had to learn many things so I think that this was important too and in some way,. we can say it had its pro and cons.
Thank you to let me share a little about what has been this experience.
Marcela Varas

2021-09-17 23:39:17 UTC

In this podcast, they are talking about the existing differences, difficulties, that both teachers and students have had at the moment of working during the pandemic time, and how education has been affected during this period. Positive aspect: we were able to adapt to the new situation. Negative aspect: not everyone had the same opportunities. Marcela Varas

2021-09-17 23:52:56 UTC

Melina Furman tells us about the positive points of this period. The way we had to reinvent ourselves, and how we had to reflect upon our teaching practices. We really had to find and think about new ways of teaching so as to be nearer our students and help them to progress.
And also tells us about the importance of sharing, of being a cooperative and better person, with our students and with our colleagues too. Marcela Varas

Mayda Carolina Aguirre

maydac78a — 2021-09-18 14:32:24 UTC

I totally agree with the fact that this pandemic has deepended the inequalities that already existed. At the same time it has brought to light how little it is invested in education.
Although we as teachers were not ready to deal with this unexpected and sudden scenario, we managed to do it and learned in no time to use resources we had never used before. Unfortunately, and despite all the efforts made by teachers and institutions to guaratee the students learning process, only a few managed to do it. It is a fact that a large amount had no resources and no family support, but many students just did not feel motivated to continue as there was uncertainy and no clear rules.
Now, that we have returned to face -to - face classes, my challenge is to rethink my teaching goals, prioritise what I teach, bearing in mind that what I teach is significant and challenging for my students. I am going to keep on working cooperatively with my peers as I find t enriching and it makes the work easier. I will have to be more aware of the heteroneneity in each class and adapt to the needs of my students.

Mayda Carolina Aguirre

maydac78a — 2021-09-18 16:04:58 UTC

When the lockdown started, I didn't even think how hard it would end up being. At first I didn't mind working from home, I thought it would last for a while.
However, as days went by it became harder because the demands increased and I had more questions than answers. We all know that each school has its own reality, so adapting to what each one of them requested was hard too. To be honest, I felt overwhelmed.I kept in touch with some students through Meet, with others we used Classroom, others only kept in touch via whatsapp, email or they left the activities on paper at school. All this, meant working many many hours, adapting the contents and material, checkig the email and different platforms constantly, giving students feedback, attending never ending and sometimes useless meetings, etc...
I had to stand up for my students, which is my responsibility of course but I sometimes felt frustrated, exhausted, scared and not recognised. Our work was at times invisible and lonely.

Mayda Carolina Aguirre

maydac78a — 2021-09-18 16:52:41 UTC

I agree with the idea that we learned a lot in this pandemic. There is no way of going back to how we were before. Teachers and students felt forced to find resources and ways to deal with our everyday teaching and solving homework respectively.This should make us reconsider how to make good use of the face-to-face classes now that we are back . There is no doubt that our role is very important in the students' learning process. However, I believe that our challenge now is to provide them with tools that could help them find answers and give them independence to solve problems, rather than filling them with information.

Mayda Carolina Aguirre

maydac78a — 2021-09-18 17:08:41 UTC

It wasn't hard for me to use technology during the pandemic. I had already done courses on the use of some applications and platforms. During this period I put them into practice. I also learned about new useful applications that I hadn't used before.

Noelia Picabea

2021-09-18 18:23:48 UTC

At the beginning of hte pandemia I was a little bit worried. The news were showing us how this new virus was expanding so fast throughtout the world and didn´t know what to expect. Then, suddenly schools were closed and as a teacher it began a new way of teaching. In a blink of an eye, a full transformation of the education system ocurred, and we had to adapt to a whole new system.
google classroom, zoom, meet, whatsapp,mail etc were the new digital apps used by students and teachers in order to keep on working, teaching and learning.
New offices at home were installed and more than once everything was chaos. I took part in every training workshop I could in order to incorporate the new knowledge into my lessons plans but the daily demands from students were always different.
I believe this pandemic has changed my life and has reinvented my way of teaching.

Noelia Picabea

2021-09-18 18:30:31 UTC

I found difficult to reach every student. Not all of them had the required technological devices to follow the rhythm of every subject and class.
I had discovered new interesting ways of working with some new tools but not all teacher or students had the same opportunity. Social inequalities were a breaking point at the moment of taking part in remote learning.

Noelia Picabea

2021-09-18 18:52:32 UTC

I belive this podcast summarizes evreything we, as teachers, have gone through in this pandemia, and highlights what we are still dealing with.
They talk about how this pandemia has affected education, how do we manage to assess students during the process of remote teaching and learning and how difficult has been to some teachers to adapt and move on online.
In some countries, lockdown was imposed, so this affected not only teachers and students, otherwise whole families organization.
Inequalities arised and uncovered what was hiden to the eyes of the government.
I strongly believe, as they say, that "emergency remote learning" is still in but I don´t want it to continue, I don´t like it and it´s not what student´s need in order to grow up as critical thinkers.

Alicia Navarrete

2021-09-18 23:07:00 UTC

I've found this material quite interesting. In my view, teaching practice during the lockdown has been very hard because of the lack of face to face interaction with our students. Undoubtedly, distant education has been hard to keep, as our country is in a negative economic and political context. Teachers have to reinvent ourselves facing the new challenges.

Andrea Resler

2021-09-18 23:07:14 UTC

In my opinion, the text is engaging, but it also shows that the process of going back to school is (and is going to be) a very tough task for students, teachers and families. All of us had to come up with new strategies and resources so as to fulfill our students' needs and we are facing the challenge of teaching in a classroom with really different levels.

Andrea Resler

2021-09-18 23:12:14 UTC

During 2020, I tried to keep in touch with students as much as possible, creating WhatsApp or Facebook groups, using the resources available, etc. However, very few students were completing the activities and that made me feel a little upset. Then, in 2021, I could meet them in face-to-face lessons and that helped a lot.

Alicia Navarrete

2021-09-18 23:17:05 UTC

At the beginning, it was hard but then, the school where I worked gave us different tools to contact our students. For example, we created Whatsapp groups and we also used Facebook to give homework and tasks to the students. It was stessful.

Alicia Navarrete

2021-09-18 23:21:14 UTC

I agree with her. I also think that we should have more tools to cope with the current and future changes we will face.

Andrea Resler

2021-09-18 23:24:52 UTC

I agree with her. This pandemic has made us innovate as teachers and also become more collaborative with one another. Besides, I think it's vital to pay attention to students' needs and interests, to help them feel safe at school and to listen to them.

Alicia Navarrete

2021-09-18 23:25:23 UTC

Personally, I've found technology very difficult. We should have more training related to technolgy and new ways of teaching.

Andrea Resler

2021-09-18 23:26:57 UTC

I didn't find it that difficult, because I'm always looking for new resources and trying not to get bored with my own lessons, haha. I had never given virtual lessons before, but it was a nice experience for me.

Andrea Resler

2021-09-18 23:45:11 UTC

In this podcast, they talk about the transition from face-to-face to virtual lessons. They mention how quick it was and therefore, the positive and negative aspects of this huge educational change. I think one of the most important positive aspects is that teachers are long-life learners, so our learning process never stops. On the other hand, regarding negative aspects, the most outstanding one is the fact that this pandemic affected students in their social skills and in their academic level.

Alicia Navarrete

2021-09-18 23:56:53 UTC

In the podcast they mention that the ELT community has made a great effort to carry out remote teaching even when there has been lack of devices in many cases. They also mention the difficulties that teachers have to face during the transition from face to to face to online teaching in a very short period. They say that the effect of the pandemic in developing countries has shown the technological bridge between poor countries and rich countries, and that many students gave up school because of lack of access to online teaching.

Mayda Carolina Aguirre

maydac78a — 2021-09-19 00:26:12 UTC

In this podcast the two speakers talk about the positive and negative effects caused by the pandemic, both on teachers and students.
On the one hand, a lot of progress has been made. Although the lockdown was imposed suddenly, teachers, who are life long learners, were able to adapt to the emergency situation rapidly. Many students did it bravely as well.
On the other hand, negative aspects were pointed out. First, the interruption of learning affected learnig and the develpoment of students. Also,as a result of the inequalities a considerable number of students did not engage with remote learnig and many of them gave up.
All things considered, we are faced with the challenge of bridging the gap between the pandemic mode we were inmersed in for many months and the heterogenous present, which should be more inclusive than before.

Hello everyone, I hope you're ha having a pleasent course. 😀

2021-09-19 04:22:25 UTC

Melanea San Martín

2021-09-19 15:00:20 UTC

I found this article really interesting. As many colleagues have said this article has many fascinating points that helps us to dela with this special period of time. What is more, this pandemic made us re think our teaching lessons. It has been a difficult time for many of us, as we have to deal with technology and new tools that some of us weren't use to. All this taught us that we are capable of deal with many difficult situations, as well as working cooperatively with other teachers make difficult times easier to deal with.

Melanea San Martín

2021-09-19 15:13:52 UTC

At the beginning was really overwhelming not knowing how to deal with this period. However, some colleagues helped and gave me wonderful ideas and tools for online teaching and learning. I found it difficult but I think that all of us try to do our best in order to keep in touch with our students. As some have said communication with our students was essential because everybody needs to express how they were dealing with this pandemic.

Melanea San Martín

2021-09-19 15:50:45 UTC

I totally agree that this pandemic made us realised that in a globalised world education seems to be a step backward. What is more, this historical period made us rediscover ourself us teachers as well as redesign our lessons as many teachers have said. I also agree on the fact that as part of this historical moment we need o bare in mind what kind of teacher we want to be from now on.

Melanea San Martín

2021-09-19 16:05:47 UTC

It was a bit difficult for me because I wasn't aware of the amount of digital tools we can deal with, as many others have said. However, there were some colleagues that were really helpful and I could deal with technology better than me and help me a lot. Nowadys I keep on learning because there are some tools that are really interesting and engaging.

teacherjohanna62 — 2021-09-19 16:26:34 UTC

At first, it was quite difficult to plan my lessons because I had some students that participated all year long during 2020 and many others who didn't. But having small groups of students in the classroom helped a lot. The first step was to select the main linguistic goals that I wanted my students to achieve and find the way to integrate those goals so as to help the students who couldn't participate during 2020. (Johanna Burgos)

teacherjohanna62 — 2021-09-19 16:37:05 UTC

I agree with the speaker. I think this pandemic gave us the chance to learn new ways of teaching and to make a real use of technology. We learnt that the use of technology isn't just word, powerpoint, facebook, or twitter. There are many resources at hand that we can exploit and that we can make our students put them into use as well. (Johanna Burgos)

Melanea San Martín

2021-09-19 16:38:44 UTC

There are many interestinsg ideas in this pandemic scenario.
There are many advantages as regards how this pandemic affects education and also how to access education. They mention that the transcision from face-to-face to remote online education was really quick. As a consequence, educators had to move almost inmediately online eventhough they had almost no support. However, we, as teachers, are in a better position nowadays as language learners because and we could deal with this huge change.
On the other hand, there are some disadvantages because we need to consider the future or the present time. That is, children's realities. Some of them didn't have access to technology or they didn't have technology devices toaccess education, others didn't like this "online" learning. We, as educators, need to shorten the gap and work in an inclusive learning reality.

2021-09-19 18:32:06 UTC

This podcast talks about how teachers and students had to adapt to this new reality in a very short period of time. It highlights that both teachers and students had to learn new skills and that they did it successfully. But it also talks about the disadvantages of this situation since many students couldn't be part of this new virtual schooling due to lack of Internet access. As regards teachers, most of us had to deal with all this new reality alone since we had to learn many things on our own. (Johanna Burgos)

Hello colleagues, I love listening to Melina Firman and how right she is, this pandemic encouraged us yo seek new horizons, that is, to seek new strategies to reach oye students, wey had to reinvent ourselves, connect with the class through technologies, It was a Challenge but we knew how to face It. I agree with Laura Cecilia Romero that this pandemic gave us the opportunity to reinvent ourselves and create strong links between students and teachers, through their clases.

2021-09-19 20:40:07 UTC

Florencia Jacqueline Gonzalez

I tried to do my best, but I didn't enjoy it very much. I got tired, angry, unhappy. I didn't like it. At the same time, I learnt a lot because it was totally new to me.

geralbulgarelli — 2021-09-19 21:01:44 UTC

new and difficult situations give us the opportunity of learning in order to achieve a goal.

geralbulgarelli — 2021-09-19 21:11:59 UTC

Pandemic affected education a lot.on one hand, students and teachers have made a tremendous progress since it started.teachers and stundes were very brave before this situation. we as a teacher are the greatest learners. On the other hand, it made a lot of students gave up school and teachers got frustrated .

geralbulgarelli — 2021-09-19 21:44:19 UTC

Nadia Aguirrezabala

nadia_aguirrezabala11 — 2021-09-20 02:17:45 UTC

This text helped me to find many answers. Specially what to do with students who didn´t have access to virtual lessons last year and this year. Although we have already came back to "normal", there are many issues to evaluate and to get back. Today students are far away from students we had two years ago. So it´s a challenge to deal with our new world.

Nadia Aguirrezabala

nadia_aguirrezabala11 — 2021-09-20 02:22:40 UTC

At first it was rare. I got up at any time, I didn´t know what to do, how to prepare lessons, how to talk to students and so on. Then, I started organizing my time to work, to plan activities and to communicate to students. The school came into my home and took my social life. I felt panic when I received messages from other teaches, directors and students at 2 or 3 in the morning, or at weekends, it was horrible.

NAdia Aguirrezabala

nadia_aguirrezabala11 — 2021-09-20 02:29:47 UTC

I agree that this pandemic made us reevaluate our job as educators. We had to learn new strategies, and to develop new skills. It was difficult to get used of it, but it is also true that it took some treasures, it made us realize how much we love seeing each other.

NAdia Aguirrezabala

nadia_aguirrezabala11 — 2021-09-20 02:31:35 UTC

I wasn´t difficult for me, since I finish the teaching course in a virtual institute and I love technology, so I had a less issue to deal with.

Nadia Aguirrezabala

nadia_aguirrezabala11 — 2021-09-20 02:40:49 UTC

They talked about some advantages and disadvantages of the pandemic situation, the improvement of the teaching process, the transition between face to face and virtual education.
They also mentioned how brave teachers are and both pointed out that teachers learned a lot about many technology issues like, internet, social, media, etc.
The man said that teachers addapted to this reality very fast, they went from "I can´t" to " I can", but it wasn´t that positive for students, on they, it had a negative effect, it caused ausentism, frustuation, lack of interest.

Cecilia Costantini

avantimorochia027 — 2021-09-20 02:43:09 UTC

I loved this text and to be honest I should have come across it much earlier.
For me, teaching in a virtual way was a deep challenge as I am not tech at all.
Little by little I opened my mind up, watch tutorials, practice and after several weekends of study and google, I managed zoom, and three different platforms.

Noelia Picabea

2021-09-20 11:39:15 UTC

It is true that this pandemia we are going through will change our way of daily living and will make us part of a historical moment. Educational changes had to take place in a setting full of uncertainty. Lessons suddenly changed and both teachers and students had to adapt to new ways of teaching and learning. Old and new tools emerged in order to allow us keep on teaching in an interesting way. We have helped each other to make these changes.

Time is the most important and necessary issue to take into account. Students were dependent and relied in teachers to organize their times. Once at home students were at home lost track of their school timetable and they faced hard times.

Not having physical place where to study changed everybody´s reality but highlighted the importance of face to face interaction and the need of learning from others and with other.

Celia Cruz

celicvd — 2021-09-20 16:00:24 UTC

As some of my partners have mentioned, the podcast explains the advantages and disadvantages of remote education as a consequence of the pandemic context. In this sense, the speakers talk about how students and teachers had to adapt to remote lessons quickly, but also they highlight the difference about the access to technological resources.
As a positive aspects, the speakers describe teachers as a lifelong learners and how they had dealt with the new reality successfully.
Celia Cruz

Celia Cruz

celicvd — 2021-09-20 16:06:23 UTC

It wasn´t difficult to use new technology for me because I had used some applications and webpages to desing activities and lessons. However the situation was inspiring for me to learn more about new tools to apply.

Celia Cruz

celicvd — 2021-09-20 16:16:07 UTC

I agree with her, the pandemic context allowed teachers to revisit, reflect and change their teaching practices. Besides it gave us the opportunity to learn new ways to teach and learn.

Celia Cruz

celicvd — 2021-09-20 17:05:55 UTC

I didn´t have the opportunity to work at school in 2020. But this year, at first was a little difficult and I felt overwhelmed with the different tasks to do. Another difficult thing was connect and motivate students to work in a bimodal way.

Celia Cruz

celicvd — 2021-09-20 17:26:24 UTC

I´ve found the text interesting and useful, it helped me to answers some of my own questions.
I think it was challenging for us to organize our time to plan face to face lessons and also virtual lessons.
In this new period of face to face lessons without "bubbles" the big challenge is to motivate those students who did not participate virtually.

2021-09-20 18:56:24 UTC

At first it was a challenge for many of us. I'm not good at the use of technology devices so, I had to learn how to use them.I had to adapt all the activities I had planned. Only few students sent me the homework by whatsapp and many of them didn't have internet connection. All these changes force us to rethink how education will be from now.
Marcela Molina

breeeen6 — 2021-09-20 20:06:06 UTC

Last year was quite difficult for students and teachers. I explored and tried different apps and web pages to use in class. Of course, I did video calls to my students every day.
The most difficult part was those students that couldn't connect to the class. Apart from that, they didn't have technological devices in good condition. It was hard to work with the half class all year long. Fortunately, we are back so we can help our students personally. Mollo Brenda

2021-09-20 21:54:43 UTC

This pandemic gives us the opportunity to rethink our way of teaching, how important is training obout technological tools but, we also have to look for new strategies for those students who do not have access to the internet and technological devices.
We are in a path of continuous learning.
Marcela Molina.

2021-09-20 22:41:42 UTC

It wasn't t easy for me, first because I didn't know the large number of digital tools and apps there were and, because I had to record all the lessons and send them by whatsapp ( the only app students had to connect with me ).
Marcela Molina.

2021-09-20 23:39:29 UTC

Because of the lockdown, the transition to face to face teaching to online teaching was very fast, teachers and students had to adapt very quickly to this new reality, where many people don`t have devices and internet to go online. Now, teachers are in a better position to use technology for language learning.
Marcela Molina

breeeen6 — 2021-09-21 01:14:03 UTC

I agree!
We have learned a lot during this quarantine. We have planned according to our student's needs and interests. As she said, we have to build a new school and students are the main characters. So what they think, feel, and want matters. Most of our students feel it like their own place, where they can be and show how they are. We have done hard work to continue with classes last year and it works. But being with them and have contact is irreplaceable.
Brenda Mollo

Sandra Beatriz Navarrete

2021-09-21 18:54:39 UTC

Undoubtedly, the return to face to face lessons require that we as teachers reshape our teaching experience as we encounter students with different social challenges during the pandemic. Some students have no phone or computer and it would be unfair to require try to catch up with contents the same way we would ask of those students who had the chance to be in touch with the school staff. We need to modify and recreate ourselves and the way we have taught so far so we can reach those students who in many cases have undergone lots of social stress.

Sandra Beatriz Navarrete

2021-09-21 19:03:23 UTC

Yes, I think that Sophia is right when she says that we are doing a new path and that we innevitably had to deal with stressful situations but we have also been courageous enough to face this new time and accpmpanied our students. That´s what I mostly rescue from what she said.

Sandra Beatriz Navarrete

2021-09-21 19:37:15 UTC

I think the essay of Axel Rivas is interesting as he states that we cannot teach the way we used to do it, not at this time at least. He says that for this time of exceptions we need to prioritize the contact with our students and their families as well. He also says that instead of expecting our students to fulfill activities we need to motivate them and include them in the lessons by providing them with collaborative activities that they could solve in pairs or groups of work. I think this is a great way to "connect" them to their school environment.

Geraldina Bulgarelli

nadia_aguirrezabala11 — 2021-09-22 11:30:15 UTC

New and difficult situations gave us the opportunity of learning in order to achive.

Alvial Aldana

aldiialvial13 — 2021-10-13 14:15:38 UTC

Hi! I didn´t have any trouble with digital resources neither did I have with the different platforms. However, the internet provided us with a myriad of resources that it was really hard to decide on which one to use. Each of them had its pros and cons.

vivianacaceres — 2021-10-17 14:46:17 UTC

In this podcast Sofia and Daniel debate about the positive and negative issues of emergency remote teaching in pandemic. As regards positive aspects, Sofia thinks teachers have done a tremendous progress regarding remote teaching and also says that teachers are life long learners so they are able to adapt to the reality even with lack of support. On the other side ,there are many negative points . The most relevant is the inequality. They describe gaps between pedagogy , materials , teacher's overwork and students distruction. Finally , they come to the conclusion that emergency remote teching is an excellent approach for the crisis but not for a new educational paradigm. Viviana caceres.

Alejandra Marks

rualmarks414 — 2021-10-20 01:54:53 UTC

After reading the text .I realize thst weas teachers have to deal with many challenges with whole groups and we have to work hard,we have to rethink our practice ,apply new strategies in the New context .

Alejandra Marks

rualmarks414 — 2021-10-20 02:05:04 UTC

It was hard for me to use technology. However i was be able to adapt my lessons and apply some web pages to deliver my lessons