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The article analyzes homeschooling based on the scenario caused for the coronavirus pandemic. We started from the decision of the Federal Supreme Court in 2019, which decided on the lock of legal provision. It turns out that social isolation and the closure of schools required changes in the pedagogical project, which included online classes, nationwide. In this sense, not all students hove access to the Internet, causing the risk of dropping out of school to increase considerably, in addition to other inherent developments. The agenda ceases to be a legale-ducational issue and expands to a political issue. The focus is to reflect on whether home education is the best legislative solution to be adopted after the pandemic. The theoretical-methodological procedures were those related to qualitative research, essentially documental and bibliographic (BARBOSA, 2016;CASALI, 2018;CURY, 2019;VASCONCELOS, 2017). We conclude by warning that society should not agree, without due debates and hearings, the approval of educational legislation that expands the reach of homeschooling, generating setbacks to education.
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This text intends to shift the centrality of the debate about COVID-19 to the human condition post-pandemic. We use the concept of imitation as an axis (Tarde, 1978), in addition to other authors who contribute to the reflection on the "tragedies" generated by the new Coronavirus, based on the climate of insecurity and fear established in humanity and the economy. We propose a theoretical essay in which we use resources from the "sociological imagination", in the sense of prospecting the inversion of the established order and we present nine different and correlated arguments, as an analysis of the possible panorama that offers a hope in the context of use the direct and pronoun transitive verb "to hope", of political action, of longing, of seeking and contrary to the act of waiting.
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Information creation runs at a higher rate than information assimilation, creating an information gap for domain specialists that usual information frameworks such as search engines are unable to bridge. Knowledge graphs have been used to summarize large amounts of textual data, therefore facilitating information retrieval, but they require programming and machine learning skills not usually available to domains specialists. To bridge this gap, this work proposes a framework, KG4All (Knowledge Graphs for All), to allow for domain specialists to build and interact with a knowledge graph created from their own chosen corpus. In order to build the knowledge graph, a transition-based system model is used to extract and link medical entities, with tokens represented as embeddings from the prefix, suffix, shape and lemmatized features of individual words. We used abstracts from the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset Challenge (CORD-19) as corpus to test the framework. The results include an online prototype and correspondent source code. Preliminary results show that it is possible to automate the extraction of entity relations from medical text and to build an interactive user knowledge graph without programming background. © 2021, ICST Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering.
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This work deals with the role of journalism during the SARS-COV.2 (Covid-19) pandemic, in 2020. In this unique context, in which journalists and the media in general had a leading role, we reflect on the journalistic field (Bourdieu, 1992) relating it to a constructivist notion of reality (Berger & Luckmann, 1999). However, we use the notions of post-truth and "fake news" to demonstrate two of the main lines of force that today involve the media in general, as well as to expose a case analysis about institutions such as the World Health Organization and the European Commission. The objective was to address the problems of disinformation and "infodemia" (Zarocostas, 2020), which occupy the information gaps on the internet. The method used was mixed. In the quantitative dimension, we resorted to the application of a survey with a sample of 365 people, among journalists in the press, in the media in general and in recurring news consumers, about production processes, work routines, information generated during quarantine and news consumption in confinement time. In the qualitative dimension, we resort to the description of cases that demonstrate the presence of the phenomenon of post-truth and "fake news" in times of pandemic and how it affected social behavior. The results of this analysis point to the need to review certain productive practices in the journalistic field, which accentuate information gaps, in addition to practices that encourage professional insecurity. We note that there is a lack of critical stance between the press and official institutions, whose speeches, when erratic, can make it difficult for the public to perceive the difference between "fake news" and provisional news truths during the coverage of the pandemic. It is also concluded that there is a constant need for self-assessment of the failures of the professional field. © 2020 Universidade da Beira Interior. All rights reserved.
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The objective is to map the publication of the first actions carried out by Brazilian federal public universities against COVID-19 and its repercussions on social networks. This is an exploratory-descriptive research, with a quantitative-qualitative approach, carried out in a web context, in April 2020, based on data collected in the digital social networks of Brazilian federal public universities. The quantitative data were analyzed from simple descriptive statistics and qualitative statistics - comments - from lexicography with software support. A total of 3,576 posts related to COVID-19 were evaluated, of which 2,215 (61.9%) were posted on Facebook and 1,361 (38.1%) on Instagram. The data revealed an increase in the publication of posts about COVID-19 from March, with predominance of posts of the type "actions", such as: suspension of academic/administrative activities, remote work, psychological support to society, production of protective masks and alcoholic preparations, granting spaces for the installation of campaign hospitals, performance of University Hospitals, among others. The lexicographic analysis of the comments resulted in two classes: "Anguish before the suspension of activities and reconfigurations of the functioning of the university" and "Pride for the performance of the university". It was learned that Brazilian federal public universities have actively acted in actions to combat COVID-19, from academic and administrative reorganizations to contribute to the minimization of risk to their community and region, to social actions to support the academic community, especially students, as well as basic and applied research related to the theme, which has been decisive in the Brazilian context.