By Gabriela Gonzalez Murillo | Fundraiser
In March 2020 the World Health Organization declared the pandemic due to the COVID-19 virus, which had already been seriously affecting the health and economy of several countries. A few days after the appearance of the first case in Costa Rica, the schools a
The social distancing was established, which made the way in which that we had been doing things, almost immediately.
The Connecting Project is a public-private initiative between the Ministry of Education Public and the Quirós Tanzi Foundation. Its purpose is to reduce the digital social gap through the integration of technology, as a tool for learning. It has several strategies to achieve this end, and all have been developed in person for 9 years.
The project had to be transformed to respond to this new context of COVID-19, this is why the Connecting Online strategy has been implemented since March, whose objective is to meet the educational needs of the beneficiary population of the Project Connecting and extending support to more teachers, families and children, through dissemination of digital resources and virtual learning spaces.
Strategies for Teachers and Directors:
Open webinar:
7 Webinars have been held, with the participation of 6927 participants, with excellent
evaluation and comments, under the following topics:
A. Webinar “An urgent call for educational innovation” (690 participants)
B. Webinar "Learn to make videos for your online classes": (979 participants)
C. Webinar “Learn to evaluate using online forms: (991 participants)
D. Webinar "Virtualization of learning through a platform" (1078 participants)
E. Webinar "Little Story House" (783 participants)
F. Webinar "Strategies with Technology for Preschool Teachers" (1313 participants)
G. Webinar "Creation of digital books" (1093 participants)
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