Virtual classes are the most avant-garde and relevant educational experience in the current situation. Today's parents see how useful their children's contact with digital devices is for learning.

How many times have you wondered if the child really takes advantage of his online work sessions ? The truth of the matter is that technology makes available to the student a formidable set of tools.

As a parent, you may have been concerned about the radical changes that the Coronavirus pandemic has caused in education. The rhythms and educational procedures also changed in the face of the global contingency.

Schools suspended their face-to-face activities and implemented virtual classes. In this way, with criteria of excellence, the training requirements of students in educational institutions have been updated.

Teachers, parents and students found themselves executing the activities of the school environment in a different way. Today all have managed to continue with the teaching-learning processes, but with technological support.

The dynamics of schools is focused on taking advantage of information and communication technologies (ICT) to carry out the teaching-learning process. Below you will find the secrets so that he can take better advantage of virtual classes.



1. In virtual classes, each child has their own time

Parents often tend to compare how their child studies and how their more advantaged peers do. However, it is more beneficial to focus attention on determining the rhythms, habits and schedules of the child .

Staying at home produces the illusion that there are no rigid schedules to study, or that they are more flexible times. There it is necessary to separate between the stipulated time to receive the classes and the time to carry out the tasks.

In this sense, knowing the child's times will give clues on how to take advantage of his energy at the best moments. There will be periods for rest, distraction and leisure; but there must also be specific periods for school work.

2. Create a motivating study place

Just as the classroom is the place to learn at school, virtual classes also require a space . Assigning the place where you study with the support of ICT favors the habit and discipline to learn.

On the other hand, care must be taken to ensure that it is comfortable and that it does not coincide with the spaces designated for sleeping or recreation. The comfort oriented to have at hand all the necessary resources to study.

It is important that it be a ventilated place, with good lighting and free of distractors such as noise, music and so on. It is convenient to provide the appropriate conditions to favor concentration in the learning processes.

3.Agree with the child a schedule for homework and study

Successful parents manage to establish a balance between their own demands and the rhythms of the child . With such an attitude, you can agree on a schedule where your obligations do not compete with your tastes and needs.

When compliance with the agreed schedule pays off, then the child can devote himself to the activities of his choice. The reward for a job well accomplished reinforces the satisfaction of the effective study habit.

4. Benefits of virtual classes

In virtual classes, time and space are more flexible since they allow the repetition of videos or materials asynchronously or synchronously with important information.

The universe of data offered by the Internet also represents a bank of resources from which additional materials can be selected. 

5. Reduce distractions to promote concentration during classes

All parents agree that distractions are the main obstacle to achieving the required attention of the child during classes. On the other hand, they have found that scolding and warnings have little effect.

Determining a place where the child works comfortably favors concentration. Feeling comfortable generates a better willingness to study. For this reason, the ideal is to condition the space with elements linked to the study, preferably without material or elements that encourage distraction. 

6. Maintain frequent contact with your child's teachers

It should be remembered that in virtual classes digital devices are mediators. The heart of your child's education continues to be the teacher, who now relies on ICT. That is why it is positive to go to him.

Teachers have the ability to provide recommendations and keys to achieve better learning. With their support you can establish strategies to reinforce what has been learned. Feedback is vital to improve.

7. Use different resources to review the topics covered

If you have carefully observed your child's behavior, you will have noticed how he learns. If it is more visual than auditory or kinesthetic; those are his favorite windows of learning from him and therefore you have to take advantage of them to study.

It is possible that a didactic material formulated more towards the visual is less used by a child who prefers hearing. Then, the cunning as a parent will indicate that you can use other means of the network.

8. Help him express his emotions about virtual classes

It is important that the child feels that he can speak freely. In this relaxed conversation we must try to express what he feels about his classes.

In this way, we remove the assumption that the child-computer equation is always perfect. Virtual classes should not be frustrating . In general terms, virtual education plays a very important and positive role in this unprecedented context of a pandemic. For this reason, the joint work of teachers, parents and students is a process in constant optimization.