Desenvolvimento de um jogo educacional digital para auxiliar no combate às drogas: um estudo de caso do PROERD - Programa Educacional de Resistências às Drogas e à Violência

Abstract

Digital Information and Communication Technologies are increasingly inserted into the lives of people who are looking for new ways to expand their knowledge. Educational software and digital games are increasingly used in the socio-educational environment, and therefore, playful environments such as games and games are important and enjoyable tools for learning. The issue of combating drugs becomes more complex every day, requiring greater engagement and caution from security agencies, educational institutions and society in general. Education through PROERD (Drug and Violence Resistance Educational Program) promotes awareness from a public safety perspective applied in a school environment. One of the ways to reach the program's target audience is to offer language accessible to the target age, through interactive activities with the participation of groups in cooperative learning, designed to encourage students to solve the main problems in the target age group. find. Furthermore, PROERD instructors tend to reinforce the self-esteem of children and adolescents, so that they can better deal with their tensions, resist external pressure from peers and the media, and develop concepts of citizenship. In this context, the main objective of this work is the development of an educational game, with the purpose of offering instruction to the student by inserting them through a character that represents them in a scenario that simulates a real environment of the students' daily lives, within their social and school community, aiming to encourage correct decision-making in order to avoid contact with drugs.