O uso de videogames como instrumento didático no contexto escolar do Ensino Médio.

Abstract

The present work seeks to understand how digital games can bring benefits to the school context. The research problem consists of: Discussing the use of video games as a teaching tool within the biology content in the classroom. The methodology used in this work was through bibliographical and documentary research. Video games are a dynamic and recent platform that emerged with the aim of attracting a young audience without pretending to pass on any knowledge. However, as time goes by, the need for games to bring more realistic proposals and closer to human experience, has transformed the world of digital games into an attractive platform full of historical and biological concepts relevant to the study of new means of learning. Thus, the present work aims to describe the participation of digital games in students' learning and in the way they observe the world from the perspective of scientific concepts brought by video games. To carry out this research, 3 video games were analyzed that address different biological concepts treated in high school. Thus, it was possible to observe that the games approach is very relevant to the content taught in high school, and can be brought to the classroom and thus assist the teacher in certain contents that are considered complex or difficult to be absorbed by the students.