Jogos digitais no ensino de História : uma experiência na educação básica em Mato Grosso

Abstract

Digital Games can become an important methodological resource for the teaching of History, enabling new ways of teaching, since digital games are resources that enhance the new ways of learning of children and young people of today, providing opportunities for students meaningful learning. It is based on this argument, that, this work having as scope to investigate the use of Digital Games as a pedagogical resource for teaching History, and to create a script for its use as a resource in History class. The research was carried out through a bibliographic survey where we were able to establish a theoretical basis on concepts such as teaching history, games, education, digital games, youth and learning. From a methodological point of view, we use the approaches of Gamified Education, and Historical Education as well as the National Curriculum Guidelines, National Curriculum Parameters, Curricular Guidelines for the State of Mato Grosso and history teaching. The research stages involved, in addition to the aforementioned research and bibliographic survey, it was also based on field actions where through four meetings we were able to use the Game Digital Company of Heroes 2 in History classes, with students from two classes of the 3rd year of the program. High school in a public school in Cuiabá / MT. The application of this methodology led to the creation of a logbook, as well as qualitative data that contributed to the construction of a “Script” (tutorial) where we propose to use the Digital Games, as a pedagogical resource for the Teaching of High School History , and also of elementary school in the final years with themes based on the content addressed by teachers from public and private education institutions.