Um estudo sobre o uso de ferramentas educacionais gratuitas para gamificar uma sala de aula na disciplina de Matemática

Abstract

Although digital technologies are advancing over time, most of the time, their use in the classroom, in a school environment, arrives late. This gap between education and technologies happens, in general, because there is a need for a didactic transposition of technological artifacts to be used in the classroom. In this digital age, for example, games are an educational trend, in which their elements have been studied as a methodology, known as gamification. This methodology aims to encourage student participation during classes so that they feel like they are playing a game. Although it is not a simple task, when using digital tools, this can become possible. In this sense, the purpose of this work is to carry out a research on digital tools and platforms to evaluate the process of implementation and adaptation of the gamification methodology in a mathematics classroom. For this, first, a bibliographical research was carried out on different definitions of gamification and what are the main elements of games that are present in it. Next, five digital tools that can be used to gamify a classroom were presented, namely Khan Academy, Matific, Classcraft, Kahoot, kahoot! and Roblox. Finally, a classroom experience in a multi-year class in a rural school is reported. As a result, it was possible to identify the difficulties and adaptations that are necessary to implement the gamification methodology. In this way, it is expected that this work will contribute to motivate teachers to be interested in the subject of games in education and to use these studied tools, promoting a studentcentered teaching.