Open AccessPandemic and Education: notes from the Brazilian context
Author(s) -
Lucas Pacheco Brum,
Marcus Vinícius Silva Magalhães,
Cristina Rolim Wolffenbüttel,
Carlos Augusto Pinheiro Souto,
Maria Cecília Loréa Leite
Publication year - 2021
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2411-2933
DOI - 10.31686/ijier.vol9.iss1.2891
Subject(s) - humanity , pandemic , context (archaeology) , covid-19 , media studies , social science , moment (physics) , sociology , political science , public relations , history , law , medicine , physics , disease , archaeology , pathology , classical mechanics , infectious disease (medical specialty)
This is an essay that addresses issues related to learning and its possible enhancements through the use of technologies. In the year 2020, amid the moment when all of humanity was affected due to the advent of a pandemic, caused by COVID-19, abrupt changes occurred in all instances. Schools did not go unscathed by all the changes that millions of people were affected by. In the present essay, the authors discuss the problems of this pandemic moment, inviting readers to think about the current moment, having at sight the unequal possibilities that have risen by the educational process mediated by technologies and digital medias.