Contribuições de um recurso educacional digital aplicado em curso de formação continuada: ebook para elaboração de um jogo sério na plataforma digital Scratch destinado aos alunos com TDAH

Abstract

The Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder, connected to a series of neurological injuries that impact the performance of daily actions and quality of life. Therefore, this study has as a research problem to investigate how the in-service continuous formation using an instructional ebook on the Scratch programming language can help teachers in the development of serious games optimizing the teaching and learning process of students diagnosed with ADHD. In this sense, the general objective is to investigate the contribution of the educational resource ebook containing instructions on how to design a game on the Scratch platform, presenting it as a digital pedagogical resource, to help teachers at an elementary school regarding in the planning and development of games in the teaching and learning process of students with ADHD. For that, qualitative descriptive research was carried out, and a field research with the intention of proposing a solution for the chosen problem. In this way, a continuing education course was offered to 15 teachers from a public elementary school in the city of Londrina/PR. Among the courses, all teachers are graduates in Pedagogy, 87% have more than five years of experience in teaching and 13 of them have specialization in areas related to learning difficulties. The results obtained were analyzed according to the Discursive Textual Analysis, which allows the interpretation, categorization and unitarization of the information contained in the data collection instruments (form, questionnaires, audios and images). The analysis resulting from this study reveals that, the ebook offers subsidies for the creation of games in Scratch because according to the teacher’s reports: it facilitates the creation of games, has explanatory videos, has clear and objective language, contains well-defined instructions, makes it possible to start a game in Scratch, and allows the creation of more complex games.