Tips to make studying at home easier
The study at home is the tool that in times of covid-19, has innovated and changed many of the routines that were had at an academic level; And it is that yes, it was thanks to a pandemic that we learned to truly use the technological tools that we have had for several years. Facing the reality of remaining distanced also became obtaining moments of reflection and knowledge especially for the ways of learning from home.
How has home schooling become a vital factor in life?
Education is a process that should never be abandoned and that, as we have already mentioned, due to external health factors, the change in modalities must have been totally drastic and immediate. Without a doubt, face-to-face education represented not only an academic but also a social space that was an important part of the culture of the world and not only of Colombia, so we faced education at home, a year and a few months after the start of the pandemic, remains a difficult task and a process that must continue to be learned every day, as parents, as students, as educators and as institutions.
Understanding that home schooling is a tool that we must deal with from now on, is one of the factors by which the importance of it must be recognized. We hope that at one point the presence will return normally, but it is very difficult for that life in the ‘new normal’ to come as easy as it left.
On the other hand, and understanding that many people have not managed to get used to this reality, we will leave here some tips to study and learn from home with technological tools when school is at home. One of the ways of seeing these study alternatives as something really positive is that home schooling, like virtual education, I understand that they are two different things, they allow access to academic information at any time you want to have, and that, thanks to the internet and virtuality, we can also access tools that facilitate the ways of learning for adults and children in many ways.
Keep in mind that although the terms «home schooling» and «virtual education» are similar, they have totally different meanings, since home schooling does not necessarily have to be virtual, and unlike virtual education, in it You can access face-to-face advice from an educator or tutor from the institution.
On-site home schooling
In that sense, and beyond a technological tool, accessing home schooling is one of the options that personalized schools such as Renfort Personalized School have opened for all their students. Home education is already understood as the purely digital process in which through the internet you can contact and access classes with the teachers or tutors in charge, but, unlike many institutions at the Bogotá level, the Renfort Personalized School, has managed to bring home schooling. And how it works? Simple, the educator of each child goes home to teach the corresponding class, or the sessions that are scheduled for that day, and as in a learning space, but from the comfort of their home, the child accesses their common classes.
This is a tool that is only offered by the Renfort Personalized School and it is one of the ways of teaching that brings the student closer to the educator and that allows direct contact with the knowledge and greater understanding of the thematic content that is being generated. The main objective of this type of methodologies is to ensure that the school adapts to the needs of the student and that it does not happen in the opposite direction, this in order to disrupt the educational process of each child and change those forms traditional teaching in schools.
Tools that will facilitate the study at home
In addition to these unique processes, you can also access useful tools in the educational process, therefore, we name 5 tools that can be used to improve the ways of learning at home school.
1. Google Apps for Education (Network Space – GAFE): the global technology giant has the Network Space platforms available to all educational institutions, which are a conglomeration of useful platforms for the virtual or remote educational process, such as the calendar, institutional email, drive, among others.
2. Google Meet: one of the applications available for academic meetings and that is part of the Network Space is Google Meet, a remote virtual connection space or video call that allows access to class sessions.
3. Google Classroom: it is the virtual place for teachers to notify their students about when and how they must deliver their work, in turn, they will be able to use the platform to submit assignments. It works like an academic agenda.
4. Google JamBoard: this tool is a Google collaborative whiteboard or digital board, which allows you to quickly extract images from a Google search, automatically save your work in the cloud, use handwriting, among other options.
5. TeamViewer: is a software for remote support, remote access and online collaboration from one computer to another. This tool facilitates remote control of academic processes in order to have a more realistic follow-up with the student.
