BAIUKA is an educational game aimed to wake up ecological consciousness based
on Amazonian legends. This study aimed to build an educational game for kids,
based on Multiple Intelligences, facing the Amazonian culture, automatically
generating ratings from independent agents, based on the behavior of the player,
and helping the teacher in the classroom. The game aimed to provide a specific tool
of learning motivation from the use of educational games on the web, and develop a
model to evaluate educational games. The methodological way had as its analysis
basis the qualitative methodology and involved, beyond bibliographic and
documentary research, a field research at Ipiranga´s School, applying a checklist for
Portuguese Language teachers properly selected, as well as experts that, in some
way, work in this reality. The research results indicate a good acceptance by
teachers to provide moments of play activity for children. Unfortunately, the difficulty
also noticed in creating an educational game that is interesting to the young,
combining teaching methods with the power of computer games. However, despite
this sad fact, the research points to hope that computer games can be considered
the state-of-the-art for the development of environments for learning motivation. The
production of this new generation of educational games requires interdisciplinary
teams, creative and able to work cooperatively.
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