Quality of communicator training in times of pandemic

Abstract

The media were introduced into the school to assist in the educational process. Although it is true, what was initially sought was to go beyond the walls of the classroom to take students to meet astronomical realities such as space or invisible to the human eye such as cells; They had already been used before in the training of peasants, miners and grassroots organizations in Latin America, particularly since the mid-20th century. The development of technology has allowed traditional media to be present in cyberspace today, on the Internet, facilitating the education of children and young people, as part of the infrastructure that ensures minimum quality standards in our educational systems.

In this context, the training of new professionals has been influenced by the presence of technologies, even more so due to the isolation conditions imposed by the COVID-19 health pandemic. Thus, today, the training of future social communicators demands that they not only master the writing techniques of the different informative genres, they must also take advantage of Internet resources and computer programs that facilitate the presentation of data, graphics , tables, knowing the language of the media and the techniques for placing messages in different communication environments and social networks. Additionally, plan and carry out communication projects of different kinds to be applied in different contexts and populations.

This article shows the world of possibilities offered by the internet for the training of social communicators who, in turn, trained different populations of the national territory during the first year of the pandemic while they were carrying out their studies remotely.