Painani, Delivering Messages to Enhance Blended Learning

Purpose & objective

Covid-19 has made the inequity in learning opportunities even more notorious (UNICEF,2020). About 53% of Mexico´s households have no access to internet (INEGI, 2019), making on line learning almost impossible. The government has tried to overcome this problem by offering TV lessons. Our students will show how by the use of wireless internet services and phone communications they foster a close mentoring relationship with children in elementary levels. It is well known that mentoring is a key factor to improve and achieve academic goals and social abilities. This close relationship allowed them to empathize with the needs and surroundings of these children. Through the use of design-thinking and several apps they designed one-to-one learning strategies and materials for each child. Each mentor will be in charged of designing material that will focus on visible thinking routines and fostering critical thinking skills enabling children to potentiate their learning process for life (Zero Project, 2015). This close community approach, that involves the parents as PAINANIS (noble messangers in the prehispanic culture) delivering the didactic material is a low cost approach towards building equity and inclusion in all learning environments (distance, on-line, blended, and face-to-face) keeping children tune up with their education. These learning communities can be replicated globally transforming learning and teaching.

Supporting research

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