Contribuições dos Jogos Digitais para o Ensino de Programação no Fundamental I

Abstract

Currently, technology has caused several changes worldwide, being more and more present in our society. Facing this reality, education has the role of searching and proposing methodolo gies that allow the insertion of technologies into the classroom. Digital games have been a ped agogical resource increasingly used to help teaching, because besides being a means of fun and entertainment, they allow us to stimulate memory, creativity, arouse the curiosity of students, and enable the union between technology and education. In this context, this work aims to pre sent digital games that teach programming, as well as to propose an evaluation method that allows to join the existing techniques and enables the educator to evaluate the digital games in their educational and attractive aspects before using them in his classes. The methodology used was classified as qualitative descriptive, and the data was collected through a literature review. In the end, it is hoped that this study can serve, in some way, to assist the pedagogical practice of teachers, enabling the teaching of programming through the digital interaction of students with the contents taught.