NAVIGATING IS NECESSARY! SURVIVAL IS URGENT! METAPHORS FOR LIFE AND EDUCATION.

Abstract

In this autobiographical narrative, we report and analyze the unique experiences of a university professor during the Remote remote teaching program, conceived as an emergency alternative to the Coronavirus pandemic, so that educational activities could continue. From a critical look at the insertion of Digital Information and Communication Technologies in the teaching and learning processes in Higher Education, the author describes her participation in some of the institutional decision-making moments about the way the classes would continue. Moreover, the author, while narrating her memories and practices, presents her teaching experience during the period of adaptation from face-to-face teaching to remote teaching, using data from her own research in teaching to analyze the dilemmas experienced during the virtual discipline and the students' evaluations about the experience of this non-face-to-face training. Thus, she analyzes that thinking critically about technology and our relationship with it is fundamental for us to review our pedagogical practices when we return to face-to-face classes, in order to explore the multiple didactic possibilities of integrating contemporary technologies in university classrooms in a critical and collective way.