Os jogos virtuais na educação infantil: possibilidades e desafios

Abstract

Virtual games in early childhood education: possibilities and challenges. This qualitative research aims to address the importance of games (here focusing on virtual games, therefore during the text will be used the two synonymous terms and also electronic games) in Early Childhood Education within daycare centers or schools, based on articles and book chapters considered relevant to the topic. It suggests that the game, when used in Education, must focus on a skill, as indicated in the BNCC, must have an objective as well as bring fun to learning. Planned and used in this way, it can arouse students' interest by developing attention, discipline, self-control, respect for rules, collaborative work and perceptual and motor skills. In this sense, it requires specific preparation from the teacher, who must aim to adapt the games to the learning objectives. To assist in this teaching task, some websites are presented here in order to help teachers to customize virtual games based on ready-made models, which can be edited according to their pedagogical needs and the students' particularities.