YouTube, oralidad y nuevas narrativas: pautas para la implementación en el aula de clase

YouTube reaches 14 years of existence, with defenders and detractors. This virtual ecosystem is almost inhabited by millennials, from which at least the third part are adolescents, who also participate in the educational sphere as students. Nevertheless, the virtual world and educational reality still isolated. Adolescents are the ones who must cross the limits between them at will.

In spite of the efforts from both sides to set close both dimensions, it still not being a real confluence. Communication technologies are used at school in an instrumental way, while virtual areas still developing themselves with no regards on the real influence that the educational field could have on them. This project is supported by an extracurricular pedagogical practice accomplished at Eduardo Umaña Mendoza school from Usme in Bogota, and in an action-research exercise developed at the same time with a qualitative approach. The purpose has been to get over Manichean views about the convenience of introducing technologies such as YouTube at school, to contemplate how to take advantage of this tool in formal educational spaces with regards on adolescent population.

The development of a formative workshop in audiovisual production, with YouTube as an established window of socialization, and the practice of participant observation constituted the focus for information gathering. Thus, it was possible to observe that the gap between education and audiovisual communication technology is established to a great extent by the denial from adolescents to the conjunction of both spheres.

The work shows YouTube importance and the opportunity that offers to be pedagogically exploited, by incorporating virtual world into concrete spaces and projects at school. As a result of the project it is built a notebook based on the learning of the preliminary pedagogical practice and it articulates identified profits of YouTube in a series of purposes for its potential application in educational processes.