Lagmund: da modelagem diagnostica de percepção à proposição de um jogo digital para aprendizagem em educação ambiental: um foco na Laguna Mundaú

Abstract

Environmental education is a wide, diverse, and relevant field. In particular, water pollution is one of the subjects studied in this field, presenting different and important problems to be addressed. From a technological viewpoint, part of these issues has been addressed in the area of Educational Informatics by using educational software according to several approaches. Thus, particularly digital games have been one of the educational software tools used to engage and motivate students in an active learning process, potentially involving them in productive learning interactions. The present work follows this track by proposing an educational digital game called LagMund, aiming at contributing to teaching-learning process about concepts in educational environment related to the lagoon. This game has been designed and developed according to guidelines obtained from studies about how this lagoon has been perceived by students from public schools that live close to the lagoon. From this diagnosis, we extracted learning objectives to guide a curriculum structure and then we consider the result of this diagnosis to design and development of the digital game. We have evaluated this game with an experiment involving 12 students from one of the two middle schools considered in our work. The obtained results indicate a significant interest from the students when used the proposed game, particularly stating to have motivantion and having fun in playing the game. Furthermore, the results show that the majority of the students indicate to improve their level of knowledge in the involved concepts.