Abstract

PEREZ ZUNIGA, Ricardo; MARTINEZ GARCIA, Mario  and  MENA HERNANDEZ, Ernesto. SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) in Mexico and its effect in classroom educational models: a reflexive, critical perspective. RIDE. Rev. Iberoam. Investig. Desarro. Educ [online]. 2020, vol.11, n.21, e062.  Epub Apr 23, 2021. ISSN 2007-7467.  https://doi.org/10.23913/ride.v11i21.814.

We are all living an event nobody expected: the health emergency due to SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) which has launched the using of virtual technology on educational environments to continue with schoolwork. “Stay Home” policy has brought physical distance towards changing our social dealing with others. This research focuses on presenting SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) phenomenon, its relationship and effect on classroom educational practices in general (elementary, middle and higher),on teacher’s training performance and its technological innovation facing urgently this eventuality with virtual technology support to improve educational quality. This article’s goa list to reveal a theoretical, critical and descriptive work on the impact, pros and con son classroom educational models and its virtual tools compulsory implementation in education by a review of current scientific literature on several free-access electronic sources (recently published index magazines and Google news) about SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) in México. Hence the authors rely on the contrast to dig deeply even beyond on the subject to contribute to a new, constructive, and reflexive view. In the presence of this situation, we have observed education is one of the activities which incurs in more mobility. This fact causes all the actors to adapt to a new reality nobody is expecting to face which leads us to consider new skills and competences for practical effects.

Keywords : teaching competences; fourth industrial revolution; traditional education; digital strategies; virtual technology.