Finding a New Order through Remote Teaching

ABSTRACT

Adversity takes us out of our comfort zone and leads us in search of solutions to face it. That was the case with remote teaching, that came to solve problems faced by education during the Covid-19 pandemic. The apparent chaos caused by the urgent need for change in the teaching methods, gradually revealed to be ordered and promising in some aspect. It is this new order that we will address in this paper the intensification of the individualized instruction. The experience described here occurred with a freshman class of the Interior Design course at the School of Fine Arts at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, UFRJ. The course's conduction underwent changes according to the student's responses, based on John Dewey's technic of thought construction and Jean Piaget's method of critical exploration. The experiment exposes a way to apply remote teaching to detect how each student learns the topics given in class, when it is presented to the class in a collective way, then guide each one through the appropriated path for them.