O YouTube como instrumento pedagógico para o ensino de genética na pandemia de Sars-CoV-2

Abstract

With the Covid-19 pandemic, educational institutions were forced to adhere to remote or hybrid teaching to continue the school year, requiring teachers to reinvent their teaching strategies, such as the use of YouTube video classes. This work is justified by the essentiality of the appreciation of educational content shared in digital media. Thus, the research aimed to evaluate and analyze 10 video classes available on YouTube about Genetics. The methodology used was the qualitativequantitative research with exploratory and descriptive content. Thus, an Evaluation Rubric was created to evaluate the 10 selected video classes. The evaluation criteria were Language, Duration, Content and Illustrative Images. The results obtained show that Canal Descomplica, with 3.54 million subscribers, is the channel with the highest number of subscribers among the analyzed channels. It was found that regarding the Illustrative Images 50% of the video lessons were excellent, about the Content 60% of the video lessons were excellent, about the Duration 20% were also excellent and regarding the Language 40% of the video lessons were classified as Excellent. It is concluded that the potentials that the YouTube platform presents as a feasible strategy to raise the significant learning of topics related to Genetics are noticeable.