O impacto da gamificação na assiduidade dos alunos ao Google Classroom

Abstract

This work consists in the analysis of gamification theory and its elements included in education. We know that with current technologies, the education scenario has gone through several modifications. Teachers are having to think in new methodologies and keep constant observation to see if student’s interests are going down. With this, the gamification comes with the proposal to innovate the educational environment, bringing important characteristics of the games to the academic experience. However it is important to highlight some theories related to this technique, which are important to understand students’s behavior and posture in relation to their activities. Flow theory supports much of the study of people’s behavior during the application of the elements of gamification in the classroom. The purpose of this work is the application of the Classcraft tool, that has elements of games, such as proposal and application within the classroom, with the objective of improving the participation of students within Google Classroom. The tool allows the user import the students who already have an account in Google Classroom and prepares the entire educational environment for the application of activities. With the creation of accounts and system configuration, the main function is to add or remove attributes according to the participation of the students within the Classroom.