O uso pedagógico da gamificação por professoras da rede municipal de ensino de João Pessoa

Abstract

Gamification is a technique that was first used in marketing programs and web applications to encourage, engage and keep users and customers motivated. Therefore, this strategy is a new teaching and learning approach that employs game design, in addition to the use of games as teaching tools. With the aim of engaging individuals in problem solving or suggesting more experiential learning, it incorporates game components into non-game environments. This theme is under development and is extremely dynamic. Based on research on the pedagogical use of gamification, contextualized by the theoretical framework of recognized authors, some contributions are presented on playing and games in relation to teaching-learning. Following, history and concepts of the term gamification by professionals and authors in the area. The objective of this research is to investigate the teachers' understanding about the pedagogical use in Elementary Education I. The research, with a qualitative approach, was developed through a semi-structured questionnaire, in which the teachers who teach classes in Elementary Education I municipalities in the city of João Pessoa (PB) answered the questions. The questionnaire pointed out that 80% of the research participants had already heard about the subject and most of them said they use gamification, either analogically or digitally, in the classroom. And the other, in their minority, participants justified not using gamification because schools still do not have the necessary technological infrastructure, associating it with the use of games, but referring to the use of ICTs, when gamification is not necessarily associated with the use of digital games. The results were positive, showing that the pedagogical use of gamification in education can make a difference in teaching, motivating and engaging students. It is possible to identify, from the data collected, that gamification provides opportunities for practices developed in the classroom to motivate and engage students.