O vídeo game xbox 360 com kinect Um recurso didático-pedagógico nas aulas de educação física escolar

Abstract

The video game is a possible didactic resource for school physical education, which promotes the learning of specific contents of the area and may contribute to reflexive appropriation of technological resources. The present research aims to propose the use of the video game Xbox 360 with Kinect in physical education classes in elementary school classes. Kinect is a motion sensor of Xbox 360 video game. Kinect Sports, which is a video game for various sports, which offer the experience of virtual sport. For this research, among all sports available, was chosen the athletics and their modalities. It is a qualitative research, whose subjects were students in the ninth grade of elementary school, morning shift in the discipline physical education in elementary and Middle School Teacher Hermenegildo Firmeza, public school in Fortaleza-Ce, as still, the Physical education teacher. The data collection instruments were: questionnaire with open and closed questions applied digitally, talk with students and interview with the teacher of the school. The analysis of these high-interest identified students ' speeches the possibility of practical lessons with technological support, even more, a reality that school classes are primarily theoretical. This research has defended the possibility of including the video game Xbox 360 with Kinect in the physical education classes as a teaching tool, technological action that proved to be viable, attractive and efficient.