Da sala de aula ao youtube: as juventudes da Faculdade Católica Dom Orione e seus modos de aprender em (na) rede

Abstract

The present work investigated the use of Youtube for learning, raising the contents most accessed by the students of the Dom Orione Catholic School. The research problem was: Is Youtube used by students of the Dom Orione Catholic School to learn the content of the degree? The overall objective of this work was to identify how students at Dom Orione Catholic University use Youtube to learn the content of the degree. It was tried to understand in the course of the work the concept of youths; the relationship between youth and digital technologies and to gather data on the use of the Youtube platform as a learning possibility. The exploratory research was based on the principles of netnography, with a qualitativequantitative approach, having as data collection techniques, bibliographic research, a questionnaire with closed and open questions and systematic observation. It was concluded that, although the educational institutions do not adopt specific pedagogical policies for the situation of use of the platform of videos in study, the students quite often look for the contents of the graduation in Youtube. Access facilitated by hyperconnectivity and contemporary mobility, possibility of fixing, strengthening, deepening, aiding and completing studies, clarifying doubts, searching for new sources on subjects of interest to the disciplines, to seek better didactics or to provide face-to-face classes are some of the reasons highlighted by the students surveyed to access the platform. The study has enough elements to alert teachers, managers and the students about the importance of learning in (in) the network.