Instagram and education: some considerations

ABSTRACT

This article intends to discuss the use of Instagram social network in education. The main objective is to promote reflection on the didactic use of this social network in education, offering a series of considerations on its use in teaching. The method was bibliographic, and the main results and conclusions are a series of possibilities pointed out for the use of photos through Instagram in education. Thus, it briefly covers questions about the origin of the internet, some considerations about digital devices, and then discusses the use of cell phones in education, the possibilities of taking photographs on these devices, the relationship of photography with social networks and images on the network social Instagram to finally discuss Instagram and education.

KEYWORDS education; social media; photography; Instagram