O pensamento formal no jogo digital League of Legends: as características funcionais

Abstract

Discussions about digital games in education include formal thinking about the last stage of cognitive development. The stage of formal operational intelligence is essentially hypothetical- deductive, with the existence of functional characteristics, which present the different cognitive characteristics that have developed throughout the previous stages until the current formation. The relationship between formal thinking – digital games – education is perceived when we question whether the commercial digital game League of Legends contributes to the improvement of formal thinking. This work has as participants adolescents who are in the stage of formal operational intelligence: for the construction and analysis of data, participant research and discursive textual analysis (DTA) were used. For this, the participants discussed a priori game strategies, played a game and, finally, held a brief post-game discussion. These elements allow delineating the objectives of this research: general objective – Investigate whether the commercial digital game League of Legends contributes to the improvement of formal thinking; and specific objectives – a) Identify and understand the functional characteristics used in the digital game League of Legends; b) To analyze whether the interactions between participants in the discussion process had an impact on the cognitive thinking of adolescents; c) Mapping of emotions when working with the commercial digital game League of Legends. In the results, we consider the challenges generated by the given problem as a key point in this research, as it resulted in disturbances that implied in the cognitive development of adolescents, so that they reflected in the game strategies making use of the functional characteristics.