Joga uma história pra mim

Abstract

This paper presents the development of an educational game that helps the teaching and oral and written language (of children aged from 8 years), through the use of creating narratives. Using the architectural design methodology Design Thinking, the following steps are observed: immersion, ideation and implementation, and the end user of the product focus to the sought solution. The soaking step is all the surveys, interviews and data collections necessary to understand the needs and user-related desires and its surroundings, a game with the proposed approach. Theoretical research on the pedagogical area that address the use of games in education, as well as existing games surveys the market and used in the classroom are some examples of research done at this stage. A Municipal school in Curitiba so that together with students and teachers, interviews, alternative co creation and tests were carried out was chosen. The ideation stage meets the established criteria and insights from the previous step and through the use of brainstorming, mind mapping and mockups tested with school children, the best alternative was selected and taken to the implementation stage. At this stage, the production of the final solution was detailed and the final product was taken to school to feedback from students and teachers who accompanied and contributed from baseline. The development of this game is justified by the real possibility of this product contribute as playful and effective tool for the expansion of linguistic knowledge, logical reasoning and creative thinking. Through the results it was possible to verify the approval of the product, which enables differential in the building of the Portuguese language learning as well as in expanding the vocabulary of children and their playful universe that contributes to the formation of narratives. It was also found possibilities for improvements in match the format that would provide a more efficient manufacturing process and its implementation more feasible.