O jogo digital na sala de aula de ensino religioso

Abstract

Assuming that technology has dominated almost all areas of knowledge, digital games as one of the media has start the curiosity of people who commit their time in front of screens. The growing awakening of education technology in many disciplines have been engaged the production of educational games and it is a great discovery field. Given this reality, the objective of our research was to build a collaborative plot of the digital game "Dargo" on religious symbols contemplating religions (Islam, Christianity, Hinduism, Norse mythology, Judaism, Egyptian mythology, Taoism, Wicca, Buddhism, Freemasonry and the Shinto) in order to provide students of the seventh grade of elementary school II a learning about the diversity of religious phenomena as the symbology. This is a field research and has its base in the qualitative method, since it has connections with the universe of meanings, and as a tool we use questionnaire and the focus group. The study are divided into three parts, the first part began presenting a brief history of the evolution of technology, we still talk about some authors who have developed their research on educational technology, we report some of the religious education history in Brazil and the importance of have it as a discipline in the institutions; the second part is focused on the game, we describe what are the elements of a digital game into existing genres and talk about the elements of a GDD; and the third part of the field research process, we described the focus group study and the outcome of the collaborative plot.