Os jogos eletrônicos na era do aluno virtual: brincar e aprender

Abstract

With the magnifying of the use of the computational resources in the Education, many are the chances that if open for a learning of motivator and modern form. The education, following the changes that occur in the proper society, it demands professors who do not ignore the use of new technologies in the process teach-learning. Amongst these technologies we detach the electronic game, a new tool to the disposal of teacher that it can contribute for one better learning, considering that the young is being more time to the front of a computer or consoles of videogames. Beyond the interaction of rich environments in resources of multimedia with the curricular contents, the electronic games propitiate greater interaction between the technological resources and the contents worked in classroom. In our research we specifically study the use of electronic game CALL OF DUTY, evaluating the influence of the same in the learning of the pupils referring to the period of World War II. The research work was carried through in a school of the located state public net in the central region of the city of President Prudente. Twenty adolescents of the Third Series of Average Education had been the citizens of the research. We objectify to observe the relationship of the involved citizens during the game and as the same it assists in the process teach-learning. We use as research technique the application of a exploratory questionnaire of the citizens and set of opened questions to after investigate the level of knowledge of the content explored before and the application of software. The pupils had played in pairs without intervention of the observer being that the rhythm and the level of learning had left of the same ones. We conclude that was possible with the game to practise a cooperative learning between the citizens, since to each action, stage, the same ones changed information to advance the following stages. Using the electronic game, a great field to be explored currently, the apprentice has greater autonomy to explore and to construct its knowledge, being more significant its learning.