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This study aims to verify the perceptions of nursing students about the use of digital technologies in the classroom in a Higher Education Institution in the interior of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. This is a descriptive and exploratory study with a qualitative approach. Thirty-one students participated in the discipline of Professional Exercise, part of the specific curriculum of the nursing undergraduate course. Data were collected through the classroom application of a structured questionnaire, with four questions about the subject. For the data analysis, we used the Content Analysis theorized by Bardin, for which four categories were listed: The teacher and his technologies: the students' perceptions about the use in the classroom; Opportunities for the use of technologies in the classroom: the teacher's practice based on students' perceptions; Teaching and technologies: students understand their relationship; Training in nursing and the use of technologies: intersections on the labor market. Based on the data analysis, it is possible to infer that there were two positions in relation to the students, those who perceive the use of technology as something important in everyday life and others who, on the contrary, do not use it so deeply for their learning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]