The COVID-19 pandemic has more than 90% of the world’s students from 188 countries confined to their homes and without face-to-face classes, according to the latest UNESCO data as of April 7, 2020. In this context, universities and Educational and training centers offer their training through digital means, or are trying, so that students with or without previous experience in online training will be immersed in non-face-to-face classes.

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In order for creativity to come to fruition, it is necessary to open up to the encounter with oneself and with others. Opportunity generation requires creative thinking. The creation of new values ​​requires new concepts. Opportunities only «fall from the sky» if someone sets out to look for them. Opportunity ideas are not everywhere, waiting for someone to find them. Those ideas must be produced.

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We take the opportunity to give children joint responsibility by promoting their participation in the organization of family schedules and routines. It is important to keep them as much as possible, although you have to be flexible and have a great deal of patience and empathy. A useful and participatory strategy can be to create a calendar with drawings and time slots to establish what time we will dedicate to housework, schoolwork, playing games, working (in the case of adults who can telework), sleeping , to screens, etc. In this article you will find more general tips for getting organized.
In addition, we believe that it is essential to stimulate free play for as long as possible, since it is from this that children grow and develop more naturally and healthily. A good way to stimulate free play is to have the play spaces prepared, perhaps for different activity corners and to put on relaxing background music to help the fluidity of the game and the concentration of the children.
The moments to create can be very enriching for children to develop their creativity, fine motor skills, patience and tranquility. Crafts have many benefits. Depending on the age of the children, some techniques or others will be more appropriate. It is important to bear in mind that they should be little directed craft times, appealing to children’s creative freedom and expression and letting them experiment with the materials without fear. And, as mothers and fathers, try not to restrict ourselves too much for fear of being dirty

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TED is a non-profit organization whose sole objective is the dissemination of ideas through conversations with a specific format, short but powerful and with an average duration of 18 minutes. It is a global community, made up of people from all disciplines and cultures, who believe in the power of ideas to change attitudes, lives and ultimately, the world. TED Talks are all kinds of topics, but no matter what they are always inspiring, they select people who provide a different energy, an energy that we need to wake up and motivate us like we have never done before. When we are young we need at times a spark or a little inspiration to move on and not feel that we are stagnating or staying still, because what better way than to listen to how different people have left the same place where we are and how they did it.

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I screamed, I cried, but I knew that you would come, and my pain would calm down and I would shelter you in my arms, that look held forever in my heart and that I would never forget.
You come out of the womb, adored child united forever with a golden thread, your body fragile, the love that lived between the two of you strong.
When you cried from cold or heat, from hunger or wet, a language that I understood, my adored child, united forever by a golden thread.
With each surprise that you gave, I was happy to know that you were growing up, with my eyes I followed you and you knew that I was protecting you.
But I allowed you to discover every day, my adored child forever united by a golden thread.

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I look for my soul and my heart, without waiting for a reason, I do it every time.
A path that leads to my truth, even if I have to walk alone, in order to find my identity.
Claim made by my being. At all times seeking to be reborn, so many times I cannot understand.
Life is a spring, but I must always be cordial, in order to find my grail.
Precious source called life, which always finds a way out, even in times when it is confused.
Life is a construction, of small pieces of the heart, that allows us to live with passion.

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I see very precious jewels that my grandmother showed me, among them the diamond, the sapphire and the amethyst that she gave me.
Grandma’s trunk, the one she always kept, that she hid suspicious of someone looking at her, what she loved the most.
Cameos, lion figurines, colored butterflies and a hook that she found, the one she used as an amulet and a letter from my grandfather that told him about her love.
My grandmother’s trunk, the most beautiful I have ever seen, she insists on showing me the contents there, beautiful organza dresses, fine silk from China and a tapestry brought from India, which exceeded her beauty.
My grandmother showed me every trip she made, I was determined to get closer to my grandmother, because she knew that she lost coherence every day and in her world of dementia, my grandmother’s trunk was closed every day.

Colombia is my land, I am Guajira, proud of my ethnic group and my population. I sing joyfully in the morning, I dance to the rhythm of the burning sun, and we all sing together “ta latüsü taa´ín, ta latüsü taa´ín, Aa shi müin, ta latüsü taa´ín. Talatüsu ma´i ta´in, suka nü maain ma´i taya ”.
Respect for my language since it is original, transgenerational teaching, not even the settlers from other lands who came to loot what we had, stole our treasures, but they could never take away what by right belonged to us, our race, our language and our cultural legacy.
The children of our culture learn every day to value, we have a babbler because we do not like to fight and they are considered cultural heritage in Colombia, because of their ancestral wisdom, the thieves never understood that the treasure of our land was not material but he lived in the heart of our community.
I am indigenous and the whole planet I want to show you that I am Wayuu, always in my ranchería hammocks hanging full of chirrinchi in case strangers come, in gods I believe Maleiwa my creator God, Pulowi my Goddess of life, and to celebrate with guajiras blankets we dance The beautiful women of my ranchería, the men are not left behind, because they still wear waireñas, a hat and a shirt. My house is a very large maloca because it is communal, happy I am in the land of the sun, because my ancestors, grandparents and parents are indomitable, always understanding that the Guajira land lives in the heart, and from there always remains a seed of love.