Design thinking e o desenvolvimento de jogos digitais educativos no ensino médio em uma escola do campo

Abstract

Today's society is demarcated by diverse and continuous transformations, often related to technological advances, which directly impact and occur in the school environment. Given this scenario, it is essential to provide the necessary conditions for the development of skills and competences that prepare the student. As a result, the school environment requires the use of various educational tools to assist in learning and enable students to actively use technologies. This study aims to develop digital culture skills, scientific, critical and creative thinking through the programming of Educational Digital Games based on the Design Thinking method involving the pesticide theme. For this, a didactic sequence was planned, applied and evaluated with high school students from a school in the countryside of Antônio Prado, in Rio Grande do Sul. The sequence presents a series of strategies based on the Design Thinking method that aim at the development of Educational Digital Games, in the format of an escape room, on the theme of pesticides. The games were programmed by the students through the Scratch programming environment. The instruments used for data collection were the initial online questionnaire, the students' and professor's logbook, which includes participant observation carried out by the professor, student self-assessment, peer assessment, educational digital game and final questionnaire containing the evaluation of the didactic sequence. The analysis of data from the initial applied questionnaire was performed using the Discursive Textual Analysis technique. The logbooks produced by the students, the self-assessments, peer assessments and the escape room were analyzed using descriptive statistics expressed in text format and presenting a reflective narrative. The theoretical framework used in the research consists of Design Thinking conceptions according to the authors Cavalcanti and Filatro, Freire's dialogic teaching, Dewey's theory of experience, the BNCC and other authors that underlie Design Thinking. From the application of the didactic sequence and data analysis, it was concluded that the Design Thinking method enabled the active participation of students and the development of skills in digital culture, scientific, critical and creative thinking, through the development of an escape room collaboratively. This work resulted in a Didactic Guide as an educational product, which was improved based on the research results, with the aim of helping teachers to implement the Design Thinking method in the classroom for the development of Educational Digital Games. [resumo fornecido pelo autor]