Herramientas digitales para recolección, procesamiento y presentación de datos de campo como instrumento para afrontar la contingencia COVID-19

In March of 2020, the COVID-19 outbreak forced people to lock themselves inside their homes and begin the process of transitioning from face-to-face activities at work, schools and universities to a 100 % virtual method. Even when Communication Technologies (ICT) and online platforms have seen growth over the past two decades, including various virtual libraries developed by database publishers or web-based training programs that appear to shorten the learning curve (Lee, Hong y Nian, 2002), many people were unprepared for this transition and all of them are now dedicated to entering the new reality. In this order of ideas, the activities that have traditionally required the assistance of the staff have had to adapt with the use of new tools, which meet daily needs. A clear example is the field work collection tasks. In this group, there are different types such as surveys, photographs, reviews or on-site inspections. The current work presents the use of tools for collecting, validating, analysing and presenting data remotely and in real time. All of them based on the ArcGIS Online platform.

Biografías científicas en la enseñanza de ciencias: límites y potencialidades

Previously considered anecdotal and hagiographic, scientific biographies regained their importance in historiography in the last decades of the 20th century, presenting new objects and approaches for research in the History of Sciences. New approaches to biographical genre in science allow us to rethink the role of narratives focused on the lives of scientists for science education, opening new ways of thinking about the historical approach to scientific content and the insertion of topics related to the production of science in our society. In this text, we will discuss the potential and limitations in the use of Scientific Biographies for science education.

Construcción de modelos teóricos escolares en la contextualización del conocimiento químico en la enseñanza remota

In the current situation, education, science and technology have been the support that society has had to face the difficulties of all kinds unleashed as a result of the crisis. For this reason, the curricula have been rethought seeking to be “flexible” to accommodate the real situation of the students, an example of this is the implementation of natural science classroom projects supported from the contextualization of knowledge, since remote teaching It has broken the social bonds that are built in the classroom and that are essential when generating meaningful learning. An effective way of achieving this contextualization is to recognize the elements that the student has at home and that, due to their familiarity, allow them to permeate the process of building theoretical school models. Thus, in this document an educational experience is outlined, which from the context of scientific knowledge, allowed the construction of school scientific models.

Diseño y evaluación de una estrategia de aprendizaje usando mesas anatómicas digitales en la asignatura Morfología del Aparato Cardiovascular de la Universidad Antonio Nariño

Despite the abundant literature focused on improving medical teaching process, there are still unsolved problems in this area. This research designs and evaluates a learning strategy related to Morphology subject in students of medicine at Antonio Nariño University using digital anatomic tables. The present research can be considered as a mixed designed where the perception of the use of Digital Anatomic Tables is analyzed, followed by a pedagogical strategy for teaching cardiovascular system morphology. The obtained results indicate that students prefer a teaching learning strategy mediated by information and communication technologies. Furthermore, apart from the versatility of the strategy, students’ results are better than those obtained in the traditional teaching.

Alimentando el lenguaje en niños con implante coclear en tiempos del coronavirus

The main goal of this trial is to train parents as facilitators of communicative interactions in their natural environment with their children, users all of them of cochlear implants that promotes the development of verbal language, through a non-traditional pedagogical orientation such as hybrid tele-assistance, that is finely interacts with the education for health and family well-being. The methodological approach was exploratory, descriptive, through hybrid sessions with synchronous sessions of an hour and a half with the parents and video-recorded samples of their communicative interactions during spontaneous speech with children in their natural environment “at home”. As a result, with the parents are achieved, the reestablishment of the communicative circuit and a positive change in the “linguistic nutrition” in their practices of participatory intervention during the dialogues with their children. In the future, the intangible costs that must be assumed because of the unexpected arrival of a child with hearing loss are reduced. In parallel, a place is generated for the reflection of a solid pedagogical and investigative proposal that makes transdisciplinarity visible as the first responders in health with projection in family, social and school education.

Educação em ciências no “portal covid-19”: problematizando a relação humano-natureza por meio da história e da filosofia da ciência

A crise sanitária e humanitária causada pela covid-19 levou a uma ruptura profunda nas formas com as quais estávamos acostumados a viver nas últimas décadas. Provavelmente o maior movimento de confinamento a que assistimos em escala mundial nos últimos tempos trouxe também um repensar das estruturas que sustentam esse mundo. O “portal covid-19”, conforme afirmado por Arundhati Roy, é uma forma de cunhar este momento trágico e, ao mesmo tempo, uma possibilidade de fazer com que, a partir dele, percebamos a necessidade de pressionar por novos rumos para a sociedade. Partindo da observação de que crises sanitárias como esta estão ligadas a uma relação humano-natureza extremamente desequilibrada, aponto que essa relação é historicamente desequilibrada, e não apenas na atualidade. Assim, proponho que a utilização da história e filosofia da ciência no ensino de ciências, se voltada para discutir essa temática, pode ser um caminho para problematizar a relação humano-natureza, de forma que possamos construir um futuro em que essa relação alcance um patamar de maior equilíbrio.

La escritura, la ilustración y la animación como estrategia de enseñanza-aprendizaje de la anatomía humana

The importance of research on the teaching and learning of human anatomy is currently recognized, especially if it is considered that university courses in this area continue the traditional scheme that predominates worldwide, prioritizing transmissive teaching, rote learning and summative evaluation. The purpose of this work was the construction of models for the teaching-learning (T-L) of human anatomy in which the writing, illustration and animation of a story is proposed as a method of T-L of the anatomy of the brachial plexus (nerves of the upper limb). For this, the model construction process was followed, taking into account the definition of the objective, the initial observation, the reading of the theory, the form of representation, the verification of the proposed model, and the socialization. This T-L method allowed the students to achieve a deep understanding of the topic, in this case, the spatial location of the brachial plexus, the relationship of the anatomical structures and their clinical correlation. Therefore, it can be concluded that the elaboration of models allowed the students to take ownership of their learning process by proposing, exploring and deploying their creativity and critical thinking; in addition, the attitude of the teachers, who participated as mediators, contributed to the students’ cognitive and emotional engagement in the academic activity.

Niveles de lectura en preguntas de un libro de Fisiología: ¿cuál es su relevancia para la enseñanza?

The use of textbooks is common in basic science teaching practices; however, there is a tendency to use them automatically without identifying what kind of support students may need to read them, understand their content, and know what to do with the information. The objective of this paper is to present the analysis of the reading levels promoted by the questions of a Physiology text used by a university teacher and to reflect upon the importance of this type of approach for the teaching practices of the basic sciences. A qualitative descriptive methodology and the technique of content analysis were used to analyze the study questions of the selected book. The results show that in the unit analyzed questions that appeal to the creative level of reading predominate, which facilitates the use of information from the texts to interpret phenomena and, therefore, has a high complexity; in addition, there are questions of a literal type that, unlike the previous ones, require less active processing by the reader. This type of analysis makes it easier for the teacher of the course to identify the scope of what the textbook offers and what type of additional strategies should be included in their teaching practices so that their students achieve complex reading levels, which are fundamental for their performance in the academic environment.

Transición de laboratorios presenciales a virtuales: impacto de una experiencia en un curso de Fisiología

In-person laboratories are a fundamental part of the physiology courses at Universidad del Valle; however, we were not prepared to run them virtually. Given the impact of COVID-19 on education, we were forced to face the challenge of making quick adaptations to continue offering a high-impact learning experience. As the virtual modality of the laboratories is a new scenario, it is necessary to research the impact of its implementation, the evaluation of the students, and the probable gaps in the process. The objective of this research was to evaluate the impact that the implementation of laboratory experiences in a virtual environment had on students of a physiology course at the Universidad del Valle and to identify how can its development be improved. A total of 35 students participated in this research that was conducted utilizing a survey that questioned the opinions and asked to evaluate the labs in the virtual modality. The results showed a fluctuation between regular and excellent when they were asked to evaluate their experience. Nonetheless, most of them indicated that in the subjects in which the laboratory was developed, they had advantages in comparison to those subjects in which there was not an associated laboratory. On the other hand, they made suggestions for improvement and emphasize that in the case that we were to be continuing with technology-assisted activities it would be important to incorporate virtual laboratories in physiology classes. Additionally, they gave opinions about the advantages of the face-to-face laboratories and suggest a greater accompaniment of the professor in the virtual laboratories.

Educación en hábitos alimentarios. Lo establecido en el PAE y la realidad del CED rural de Mochuelo Alto

This article presents the findings of a study on how the ‘Programa de Alimentación Escolar – PAE’ is carried out and how it affects students at one public Educational Institution in Bogotá, Colombia. The main objective was to establish whether the PAE has promoted or modified good eating habits in the children at CED Rural de Mochuelo Alto. Using a qualitative approach, data collected from interviews with students, teachers and managers, were processed in AtlasTi to compare and contrast the real dynamics of this Program with its intended purpose as stated in official documents. The results show that the teaching of good eating habits is not being carried out and, on the contrary, the feeding program at the schools with the offered menus does not promote healthy eating habits and results in food waste or reinforces bad eating habits already acquired.