REMOTE TEACHING: THE USE OF GOOGLE MEET IN THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Abstract

This article is about the issue of education in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, reflecting on the use and applicability of the digital tool Google Meet and the difficulties that teachers and the students have had regarding your use as a teaching and learning tool. In this sense, the research has the general objective of analyzing the potential of Google Meet as a teaching and learning tool. The methodology is based on descriptive bibliographic and documentary research under a systemic methodological approach, with an exploratory and participatory nature based on content analysis. This way, the study leads the researcher to propose discussions on the quality of education proposed by remote learning, reflecting on the strategies and methodologies adopted as the applicability of the Google Meet tool in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, showing that the Google Meet tool promotes collaborative activities, enabling interaction with quizzes and gamifications, facilitating the association with several other tools that help organize the classroom and make the class more dynamic. This way, it is essential that teachers and students acquire the culture of remote teaching or online class, in which students need to have discipline to be able to have good income, or otherwise, education may suffer negative impacts in relation to absence and dropout. Therefore, it is suggested that teachers and students work together remotely over the internet, interspersing face-to-face activities as activities through virtual learning environments such as Google Meet and Google Classrom.