Jogos eletrônicos e Educação Física: uma proposta para o ensino da corrida de orientação

Abstract

It is undeniable that we are immersed in a digital culture, since digital media are almost indispensable in everyday life, including this in the school context and in physical education through electronic games can be a possibility, but using electronic games as a pedagogical tool is still it is a challenge for many teachers, who appropriate electronic games need to know the tool to apply. Therefore, this exploratory research aims to insert electronic games for mobile phones as a proposal for school physical education and learning about orienteering, for which it was necessary to look for and search for games in the play store and app store app stores to observe, play and analyze, and thus understand the totality and possibility of applications to relate to references about electronic games, and produce hypotheses for the use of electronic games in physical education for teaching orienteering. Three games with learning potential were then described, the orienteering race quiz which consists of a game of questions to learn the elements of the race, the disoriented race which presents itself with a simple theme to understand the objective of the sport and the go orieentering which presents itself as a more complete game approaching all the cognitive aspects of the orienteering race. It is important to emphasize that further research must be carried out to analyze the hypotheses presented here, in addition to serving as a support for teachers to apply electronic games in physical education classes.