Games e educação: potência de aprendizagem em nativos digitais

Abstract

This paper seeks to understand the learning that arises from the use of entertainment video games in digital natives. Towards that goal, the question established itself though the following problem: what type of learning can emerge from de natives relationship with games? Through dialogue, via open questionnaires with the research subjects, namely: young post graduate Brazilian students and High School students form a public school, we tried to develop a research of illustrative nature, intended to elucidate and develop a background of the realities of the digital natives learning process. It is understood by digital natives, not only those individuals who were born and developed surrounded by digital technologies, as well as people who use these elements in various facets of their lives. In order to address these individuals and their appropriation of the world of video games, we used some of the studies conducted by the American psychologist David Kolb on experiential learning, combined with studies of the American scholar Marc Prensky and their formulations about learning of digital natives. The research revealed that these individual have different relationships with games. In a way, when it comes to digital natives, what they play, study or work with ends up blending together generating knowledge.