Jogos educacionais e informática educativa: limites e possibilidades

Abstract

The growing demand for virtual technologies has encouraged software developers to invest in new products. And, according to this demand, software (mainly games) have been constantly improved and gained greater power of attraction among the users. With the increasing spread of virtual content, various approaches (social, cultural and cognitive) have been present in these resources. And school and computer rooms are not outside this process. The increasing demand for new programs or games, to work in the classroom, calls into question the teacher's knowledge about learning opportunities stimulated by the use of games. In general, the teacher understands the game much more as a possibility entertainment and use of the idle time. Thus, this research aims General: Identify the design of teaching and learning for teachers of educational computing. And, by specific objectives: Describe virtual games and educational possibilities they offer; characterize the process of teacher training educational computing; Propose alternative work with games in virtual educational computing. The research was based on literature review of printed and digital, seeking to answer the question posed. The final text was organized into three sections that correspond to each of the defined objectives