Uso do Facebook como estratégia pedagógica para aprendizagem das infecções sexualmente transmissíveis

Abstract

Information and communication technologies, from the use of the internet, have brought many changes over time in the ways of interacting and learning. Social interactions gain more space every day and communication between teacher and student is no longer limited to the classroom, demonstrating that these interactions also pass through the environment in which communication occurs, in the way in which the student interacts with problems, subjects, information and cultural values and the mechanisms used in the classroom. In this scenario, challenge arises for the educational sphere in the sense of seeking new methodologies that are related to the current perspectives. The National Common Curricular Base (BNCC) refers to the need for students to understand these technologies, their languages, ways to interact from them, to the best of their ability, acting critically, solving problems in the most diverse spaces, that is, digital culture. Therefore, we chose to work with social networks, through a private group, created on the Facebook platform. The theme of Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) was applied, using teaching strategies based on Sociointeraction, the Active Methodology and the Investigative approach, in order to expand the possibilities in the construction of knowledge between students and teacher. The main objective of this work was to promote learning about STIs, using a social network (Facebook), in a public school in Paraíba, resulting in the elaboration of an Illustrated Pedagogical Guide as a tool to support the teaching work. The most appropriate methodology for this purpose was the qualitative research, of the school ethnography type, due to the interaction of the researcher with the researched object, and had as sample, two classes of third grade of High School, totaling 49 students. Data were obtained through questionnaires applied at the beginning and at the end of the research and through participant observation during the application of teaching strategies. They were examined by frequency and simple percentage, in addition to content analysis. The application of the research, from Facebook, resulted in an adhesion of more than 80% of the students, demonstrating the potential of this tool in the approximation of the contents, besides collaborating in the interaction between them in the activities. Therefore, it is concluded that this work favored learning about STIs and, above all, contributed to scientific literacy and the development of student leadership. In this way, it is considered that the methodology constitutes an important product for teaching, as its application has proved to be efficient in the study of the presented theme.