CHEMICAL MINING - A DIGITAL DIDACTIC EXERCISE RESOLUTION GAME ON CHEMICAL REACTIONS
DICTs, digital didactic game, chemical reaction, chemistry teaching
Teachers of the 21st century should always be aware of the changes that teaching learning has been presenting with the increasingly large presence of technologies aimed at teaching practice. Students who are present at school can be considered digital natives, born and growing in contact with Digital Information and Communication Technologies (DICT), their world is digital, dominate this environment easily. The distance between what is taught in the classroom and students' daily life can generate demotivation because they do not see the possibilities of applying the knowledge they are learning. By the way, the incorporation of digital didactic games can help in the teaching and learning process, making the educational practice of chemistry teaching more attractive, innovative and motivating. In this way, the objective of our work was to develop, apply and evaluate a digital didactic game, designate Chemical Mining, for the resolution of exercises on chemical reactions. The results of the application of this game seem to signal the playful and social potential of this developed educational product, in addition to achieving the learning objectives. However, it should be noted that games should always be applied critically and never as a possibility to solve all the problems of chemistry teaching.