Education in times of pandemic: challenges and possibilities

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has imposed a new order, another rhythm for humanity. Our daily life has changed and the school has tried to resign itself.  The goal of this paper is to present some challenges and possibilities of education in times of pandemic and to raise dialogues and reflections on remote education, distance education, online education and on the potentialities of the use of networked digital technologies for the formation of critical, creative, autonomous, authoring people, in a time when the exercise of citizenship is imposed. We consider that information and communication technologies, virtual learning platforms, social networks should be seen as propelling the creation of new relationships with information, with time, with space, with oneself and with others. More than ever, education is called to singularize itself, to reinvent itself seeking other possibilities through the use of digital technologies and housing in virtual learning environments. The paper also presents the experience of online courses of Youth Center for Science and Culture of Vitória da Conquista-Bahia, a public school of complementary education linked to Bahia Department of Education.