O Instagram® como ferramenta de educação e multiplicação do conhecimento em saúde bucal

Abstract

The present work brings an experience report of the creation of a profile in social media, carried out by students of the Technical Course in Oral Health (TSB) of the Technical School of Health of Brasília (ETESB). The initiative aimed to encourage the creation of texts and images related to children's oral health, but aimed at information and dissemination among parents, caregivers and teachers of early childhood education, in addition to sensitizing a greater number of people, users of the Instagram social network ®. The pedagogical action was part of a project aimed at promoting the training of multiplier agents in oral health at an early childhood education school in the Federal District. The engagement of students in content creation was evidenced, since familiarity with the tool and interaction with community users stimulated curiosity and search for quality references. Although the reach of the followers with the profile created was not measured, there was an adaptation of the language, images and effective dissemination of relevant information to the community, reaching the proposed educational objectives, transforming them into protagonists of their own knowledge.