Tras un breve lapso entre la detección del primer contagiado de Covid-19 en suelo nacional y la solicitud de las autoridades educativas mexicanas a las instituciones de educación superior de trasladar su docencia de los planteles universitarios a la Enseñanza Remota de Emergencia (ERE), los profesores universitarios enfrentaron serias complicaciones para diseñar, establecer y conducir esta nueva docencia. La vivencia de los académicos durante esta etapa es el foco de este texto y de un estudio desarrollado por el Grupo de Investigación sobre Educación Superior en Coyuntura (GIESuC). Los resultados dan cuenta de que los profesores encontraron múltiples dificultades logísticas, tecnológicas y materiales. Incrementaron sustancialmente la cantidad de horas de trabajo por curso, vieron un decremento en la frecuencia y calidad de la interacción con sus alumnos y, a pesar de ello, afirmaron estar confiados y alegres, aunque saturados de trabajo. Esta descripción servirá para la reflexión institucional sobre los caminos a seguir en la pospandemia y, presumiblemente, encontrar vías de solución al desgaste que los profesores tuvieron en la segunda mitad del semestre Primavera 2020.
This article showcases Compuabuelitos, a Mexican project where teenagers taught their own grandparent (or another elderly person they already knew) basic cell phone technology skills. The Spanish project name conflates "computer" and abuelitos [the affectionate term for grandparents], which is difficult to translate, so for this article, published in English, the authors coined the term "technogrands". Many other projects of this kind have been run in schools in other countries with positive results, but the distinctive feature of this particular intervention was that the adolescents received training about older people's needs prior to engaging with their elders. The project was conducted as a course assignment at lower secondary/junior high level in a private K-9 school which implements a learner-centred pedagogical model created by French Jesuit Pierre Faure . This model is based on respecting learners' individual characteristics and pace, and their own self-learning and decision-making capacities. The teenagers applied these principles to the course they taught their third-age learners. The adolescent trainers not only succeeded in helping their trainees achieve learning targets, but also gained a closer relationship with their elders -and the experience proved to be enjoyable for both parties. The teenagers attributed the accomplishment of their teaching success to their using language which was appropriate for their third-age learners, adapting their teaching style to older people's characteristics and creating a friendly learning environment. Besides being part of the teenagers' curriculum, the project also served as an opportunity for qualitative research into the students' perception of the effect of the project. The authors present their findings organised into the three domains of perceptions of the third age as a stage in life, personal relationships and pedagogical skills. Their analysis of the students' expressions of their experiences draws on the framework of symbolic interactionism.
El presente texto da cuenta de cómo los estudiantes universitarios de primer ingreso han vivido el inicio de su formación profesional frente a la pantalla de la computadora a causa del confinamiento ocasionado por la pandemia Covid-19. Las evidencias empíricas surgen de un estudio exploratorio y se toma una parte de los datos obtenidos mediante el uso de una encuesta en línea que se aplicó entre noviembre y diciembre de 2020 y obtuvo 1 738 respuestas válidas. Los resultados muestran una relación distante entre los estudiantes y la institución de educación superior, así como frustración, estrés y tristeza ocasionada por la imposibilidad de asistir al campus o plantel. Por otro lado, refieren que esta modalidad de enseñanza les prepara para un mundo pospandemia, caracterizado por el uso intensivo de tecnologías de la información y la comunicación.
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