Gamification in Education Through Design Thinking

Abstract

When thinking of inclusive education, it is necessary to consider that schools and teachers must utilize appropriate didactical materials that suit the students' needs. For some subjects, such as Geometry, the vision is the most utilized sense. However, as much as it is an important sense that helps to understand the concepts better, it can become an obstacle when the student has a visual disability. The same thing occurs with hearing disability when utilizing learning objects that contain multimedia resources. The main purpose of this work is to discuss the creation of a gamified object of accessible learning that presents the principles of design thinking. In order to achieve this goal, a literature review has been made, mainly focused on accessibility, gamification and design thinking, considering the accessibility guidelines for LOs presented by Macedo. As a result, besides the initially proposed objectives, it was also possible to relate the concepts approached by the Theory of Flow.

Accessibility of games and game-based applications: A systematic literature review and mapping of future directions

“…Propose an accessibility related design without an evaluate (Baalsrud de Souza Sombrio et al, 2016b;Dudaković et al, 2018;Escudeiro et al, 2017;Ferreira et al, 2016;Gusev et al, 2016;Henka et al, 2016;Pereira et al, 2020;Salvador-Ullauri et al, 2017;Tzallas et al, 2018;Zulkifli et al, 2019)…”

“…Twelve studies (Beckett et al, 2016; Beeston et al, 2018; Bujari et al, 2015; Cairns et al, 2019b; Cinquin et al, 2019; Dombrowski et al, 2019; Garcia and de Almeida Neris, 2020; Gonçalves et al, 2020; Leite et al, 2019; Merritt, 2017; Salen Tekinbaş, 2017; Wasserman et al, 2019) made explicit or strong implicit reference to the social model of disability, which I identified through full-reads of the manuscripts. Universal design in learning (de Souza Sombrio et al, 2016a, 2016b; Merritt, 2017) followed as one of the frequently utilized theoretical framework in the literature. Universal design can also be considered an application of the social model of disability (Hamraie, 2017).…”