Secondary Education in a Time of Pandemic: The Voice of Students as an Educational Resource

Abstract

This article presents an educational experience that was carried out in the framework of the pandemic in a secondary school in the city of Trelew, province of Chubut. It presents one of the work proposals that was approached in the framework of the virtual classes in a school with an Oriented Cycle in Communication from the curricular spaces Languages II: Radio and Alternative Communication Practices and that was developed by 5th and 6th year students respectively. It also tells how, in addition to achieving several of the objectives defined from the curricular spaces, the proposed activity was a means to bring students, teachers and families together; a space where the voice of the students became an educational resource and where the radio was a bridge for these achievements. It is important to highlight that this activity allowed students to speak, listen to themselves and be heard by others. Also, this article presents fragments of the voices of the protagonists, the students themselves. Finally, the students' returns on all the work they did to solve the work proposal are presented and finally several reflections left by the experience of educating in pandemics are presented.