Jogos digitais como estratégia de ensino e aprendizagem da cultura e das artes

This study was implemented at the Academy of Music of Arouca, in the academic year 2020/2021, and aimed to understand the impact of the use of digital games as a teaching and learning strategy in the subject of History of Culture and Arts – Music. Participated in this study 22 students from the Secondary Music Course, from the 6th, 7th and 8th grades, in a supplementary regime, aged between 15 and 18. An Action Research strategy was followed, essentially qualitative in nature, centered on an empirical study, to assess the effectiveness of two alternative modes of pedagogical work, corresponding to two groups of students, a control group and an experimental group, that benefited from the use of the Wall of Fame digital platform as an auxiliary study tool. The techniques and instruments used to collect and produce data were: questionnaire surveys, focus group, semi-structured interviews conducted with the subject's teacher, documental research on the students' quarterly assessment records, direct and participant observation, observation grids and grades and field observations in the investigator's logbook. For the interpretation and analysis of all quantitative and qualitative records of this research, statistical and content analysis techniques were used. The results obtained show that digital tools can play an important role in the context of the classroom and in autonomous study, contributing to a more active and committed posture of students and to improving their performance in assessment moments.