Insect World: Game-Based Learning as a Strategy for Teaching Entomology
| Autor: | Raul Narciso C. Guedes, Leonardo Morais Turchen, Lírio Cosme |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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0303 health sciences
Teamwork media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Perspective (graphical) Traditional classroom ComputingMilieux_PERSONALCOMPUTING 050301 education Game based learning Teaching mode Creativity Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) Education Competition (economics) 03 medical and health sciences ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION Mathematics education Student learning General Agricultural and Biological Sciences Psychology 0503 education 030304 developmental biology media_common |
| Zdroj: | The American Biology Teacher. 82:210-215 |
| ISSN: | 1938-4211 0002-7685 |
| Popis: | The use of game activities is spreading in diverse contexts, including stimulating teamwork and creativity, selecting job candidates, and as a teaching aid. Games are recognized as promoting interaction and engagement among children through an abstract challenge, which often results in emotional reactions. We investigated whether a game-based activity is useful as a tool for teaching entomology, as assessed on the basis of the learning achieved and the feedback provided by students. Student feedback was positive regarding card content, the rules manual, game-play design, and game use (the functional perspective). Likewise, the students also considered the game a fun activity, fast and competitive, and even challenging (the personal perspective). Some difficulties were indicated, such as the amount of initial information required to play. Nonetheless, the game increased student learning, demonstrating its usefulness as a didactic activity in the classroom. In addition to encouraging creativity and healthy competition among students, the game represents an integrative and dynamic teaching mode that is different from traditional classroom methods. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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