Desenvolvimento de jogos digitais por alunos do ensino médio para o desenvolvimento de conceitos químicos

Abstract

The actual study sought to establish a relation between the digital games development and the learning of chemicals contents, considering that high school students are the digital games developers.The research had been developed with the perspective of an investigation by action where it was established a whole planning of intervention with a group of students that would develop digital games. The process was recorded and the conversations transcribed as well to a data analysis. The students had developed two games related with experimental chemical concepts that are the experiment of cathode ray tube and electrochemical batteries. Two categories were analyzed: conceptual appropriation from the digital game elaboration and the equilibrium between playfulness and learning. During the analysis it was discovered that the development of activities gave a better appropriation of the chemical concepts in a way that the concepts were more inductive and an equilibrium between entertainment and learning was achieved. Last but not least, the development of digital games is a crucial element giving students the possibility to adapt chemical concepts by merging the construction and appropriating of students’ knowledge.