Gamificação na educação: uma análise das práticas de professores de informática educativa da rede municipal de São Paulo

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the contribution of the gamification strategy in the context of education and how it has been used in the city of São Paulo by a group of teachers in the area of educational computing in their situations of planning and development of education, notably to the stimulus that this practice can bring to student involvement and learning. Through a qualitative approach, based on a bibliographical survey and a case study, the methodology involved the construction of a matrix and the analysis of lesson plans when it was sought to verify the adherence of the activities to the theoretical assumptions of gamification, as well as to relate the use of ICTs as a potential element for learning, investigating gamification and its applications in teaching practices. The construction of the evaluation matrix was based on studies that deal with this theme, aiming to adapt to the specificities of the field of education. As conclusions, the conception of the strategy of gamification showed that the requirement of quality planning can´t be overlooked, since the interactions and their unfolding must be considered in order to maximize the learning. In order to understand the use of gamification, from the planning of teachers who act as instructors of educational computing in the teaching system of the city of São Paulo, it was observed that most of the proposals present a partial adherence to what is assumed by the theories about gamin activities. Considering that the group from which the activities originated underwent one-year training on the subject, the small number of activities that were practiced and the partial adherence to the aforementioned theoretical assumptions, made it possible to conclude that further training interventions are necessary in the system teaching analyzed.