Plataformas online: desafios encontrados por professores e alunos em tempos de pandemia

Abstract

This work is based on understanding how education professionals together with students faced the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, when using online platforms during remote classes. With this, we seek to investigate the challenges and alternatives that both parties involved presented in using these online platforms to teach and learn school content in times of a pandemic. For this, a qualitative research was carried out, with the application of structured interviews through the WhatsApp tool for teachers and students from the 1st to the 5th year, who worked in public schools in the municipality of Delmiro Gouveia, Alagoas. The analyzed data were collected in the year 2021 between the months of May and June 2021, referring to the 2020 academic year. Among the results, we highlight that the main challenges faced by teachers is poor connectivity with the internet provider, the lack of parents and the little support in relation to the pedagogical coordination of the school. Regarding the children, the difficulties showed to be the lack of physical contact with colleagues and teachers, implying that in the distance or online modality they cannot understand the contents coherently, having to resort to the help of third parties. As for the alternatives, the teachers aimed to propose dynamic classes so that evasion does not occur, even using online platforms. We conclude that the sudden change from the comfort of the classroom in the school space to the discomfort of virtual rooms in the residential environment, resulted in a series of problems for teachers and students, but we understand that this measure was necessary for the safety and well being of all.