Title
Mobile Applications as Tools for Virtual Education in Indigenous Communities during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Peruvian Amazon
Date Issued
01 October 2020
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Antony Saravia Llaja L.
Nunez Satalaya A.M.
Alana Rojas Alva E.
Gutierrez Gomez E.
Garcia DIaz J.E.
Publisher(s)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Abstract
The present work includes the development and validation of two bilingual mobile applications initially created as basic learning tools in Educational Institutions in Amazonian indigenous communities of the Shipibo-Konibo and Taushiro languages, both with weakening and extinction problems. The applications seek to overcome or adapt to the conditions and limitations of indigenous communities, caused by a series of bureaucratic administrative processes, and also seek to be complementary tools or support to the Virtual Education services that the Peruvian government has been promoting in the context of the COVID-19 Pandemic, and although classes continue to develop virtually through television, radio, software messaging services and electronic platforms, these media have been receiving a series of criticisms by parents and part of the education sector regarding the quality of service. Through the realization of two case studies, favorable results were achieved on the use and potentialities of supporting the educational social inclusion of indigenous children. Finally, a comparative table was made on the frequent problems, the new problems that have arisen in the context of COVID-19, and the scope and advantages of each of the mobile applications. At the same time, it is suggested that government strategies incorporate the use of interactive mobile self-learning applications as complementary mechanisms to current educational services, which should be contextualized to the geographic, cultural and linguistic environment of students, taking into account the limited telecommunications and electricity coverage of indigenous communities in Peru.
Start page
215
End page
221
Language
Spanish
OCDE Knowledge area
Educación general (incluye capacitación, pedadogía)
Otras ingenierías y tecnologías
Epidemiología
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85105468696
Resource of which it is part
Proceedings - 2020 3rd International Conference of Inclusive Technology and Education, CONTIE 2020
ISBN of the container
978-172818342-8
Conference
3rd International Conference of Inclusive Technology and Education, CONTIE 2020
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
Scopus