Fundamentos para metodologias baseadas em jogos

Abstract

This article aims to defend the use of technology and games in education, as well as it presents fundamental concepts for a good teaching practice in the current context, where technology provides the basis for a society completely immersed in its benefits. It is a bibliographic research that analyzed the work of Celso Antunes, Howard Gardner, Marc Prensky and Maria Montessori, basing on the concepts of Multiple Intelligences and Digital Natives, and the precepts of methods that value the well-being, creativity and experience of the student, as well as the use of games in education, aiming to promote the creation of teaching methodologies that use Gamification, for teachers who have little knowledge in this area. The theoretical assumptions used are directed, for the most part, to early childhood education, but also offers support for all stages of education, since the appreciation, the critical thinking and well-being of the student are the main focus for possible methodologies based on what it states in this article.