Jogos virtuais: estratégias de ensino da geografia

Abstract

The teaching which appropriate media, favors the creation of recreational environments and attractive rewarding, stimulating the integral development of the student. The word game in its essence doesn’t have a specific meaning, or special attention, but in the entire history of mankind has always been considered a game for moments of leisure, of joy, of representation, satisfaction. The game is necessary for our development process, has a vital function for the individual, especially as a means of assimilation of reality, and be culturally useful to society as an expression of community ideals. Virtual games are presented as one of several pedagogical alternatives that may be offered to the student, contemplating the true meaning of its use as favorable to the teaching-learning process. From this perspective became a study to see how often students and teachers use technology resources in the classroom, choosing the discipline of geography in a class of 6th grade of the State Elementary School Coronel Urbano das Chagas of Dom Pedrito. Through questionnaires applied to students and the teacher, was possible to verify the no use of new technologies in the teaching-learning process as well as the limited use of the digital room. Looking to diversify the work methodology were suggested virtual games, to adapt the subjects worked in the discipline in order to encourage interaction and participation of students in the acquisition of new knowledge.