Games e aprendizagem: a voz das crianças

Abstract

The context of games in Digital Culture is an element that stands out in the daily life of children, youngsters and adults, including being an element of research on its integration with formal, non-formal and informal learning. Based on this assumption, this article presents the result of an empirical investigation, using a case study carried out in a private school in the city of Maceió, with children from the 5th year of elementary school I, with the age group between 10 and 11 years. The exploratory study, in a qualitative approach, investigated the vision that children have about the possibilities of learning contents of the subjects of basic education through games. For the theoretical foundation on learning based on digital games in educational contexts, learning of children in Digital Culture we resorted to bibliographical research. For the collection of these impressions, a semi-open questionnaire was used, the data were tabulated and analyzed one by one, making a comparative study of the vision that the students have and what the authors and researchers of the area of the games say. The data indicate that the games are present in the daily life of young people, indicating that they remain several hours a week connected to the games, that when playing they are acquiring learning and skills relevant to their integral development. Even though they unconsciously develop skills and knowledge that can influence, improve and transform the ways of teaching and learning the contents of basic education in a pleasurable and effective way, re-signifying the school context in which they are inserted.