Elaboração de jogo como ferramenta para o ensino de genética para alunos do ensino médio ferramenta didática para o ensino investigativo de genética

Abstract

The present work aims to create and apply a game addressing genetics topics, based on a didactic sequence, in order to overcome the challenge of teaching in the technological reality of students' hyperexposure to short, attractive videos. This new reality makes it impossible to develop some skills such as focus and concentration, in addition to bringing challenges to teaching in this context, in which teaching practice must go through a constant process of renewal, innovation and self-criticism. In the adapted gamification that is presented in this work, game success triggers such as competitiveness, learning by imitation and creativity played a fundamental role in the success of the product. A traditional, solely expository class, using point/prize rewards or even using a data show, has not proven to be sufficiently attractive and efficient for an audience already accustomed to technology. The present work collaboratively created and applied a game on the topic of genetics, which contributed to the practice of active and investigative learning, in order to attract students' attention. Even for content that is dense and considered by many students to be boring and difficult to assimilate, it is possible to gamify and be successful in this subtype of active methodology. Faced with these challenges, making students active subjects and protagonists in the knowledge construction process is a key part of success in the teaching-learning process, in which the teacher assumes the role of mediator and facilitator. At the end of the project, reports were heard about the students' experience.