Jogos eletrônicos como instrumento de letramento: um modelo de serviço de informação em bibliotecas escolares

Abstract

The goal of this work is the construction of a information service of ludoliteracy template for school libraries, divided in five different modules that are the indispensable elements for a deployment of this service. This new reality, result of the changes that technology imposes in the daily lives, requires the individual to become literate in different types of media. For each new reading format, a new literacy is required. Keeping in mind that the children of this generation, children of the information society, need these new literacies and choose games as one of their preferred activities, to take advantage of an opportunity that electronic games promote with ludoliteracy, the act of becoming literate through play, becomes a highly recommendable action for those who are responsible for school libraries, with a proposal that they will become mediators of this actions. The research is qualitative, adopting a bibliographical and documentary research as instruments of data collection. Two games suitable for use in an educational environment were found and were used as an essential part of the template, Minecraft: Education Edition and Kerbal Space Program: Education Edition, endowed with all the tools the mediator needs to provide the service. As a result achieved, the information service template was made. For the future works, a deployment and evaluation of this template will prove its usefulness.