Boca-game: jogo com audiodescrição de imagens para o ensino de ciências com pessoas cegas

Abstract

This essay was developed in view of the need of reconsidering methodologies in the teaching of sciences to blind students, questing the enhance of the processes of comunication and construction of knowledge between students and teachers and students with students. It was developed in two moments or steps. The first consisted in price lifting and materials that would be used in the construction of an analog functional game, acessible and with easy reproduction. In the second step we created a prototype denominated BOCA-GAME (BOCA = Library of Community Objects in Audio description). The game is characterized by fitting in the model platform-board-chip, in which there is a board made of styrofoam covered by a colorful printed art with terms and engravings from the biological field. The board is composed of four trails and seven niches to be occupied by the totems that represent the teams and the position they take during the matches. BOCA-GAME presentes four modalities of chips made of cardboard from the archive material, covered with diferente matters. The writting in braille is present in all the chips and in the entire game where it is written in portuguese. Therefore, the paper pasted over one of the faces of the chips, that received the braille, has 120g grammage, allowing, this way, the pressure of the Tetrapoint machine without the paper is stuck. Digital technology is also present in our essay, given that the audio of audiodescrições spur made of game objects were stored in a laptop computer, in MP3 format, although other resources could be used for this purpose. The science subjects present in the game are studied during the final grades of middle school, which are from 6th grade to 9th grade. This way, the game is targeted to 12 years old or older students, aiming to assist in the science field. We believe that this work fosters interdisciplinary with other areas, since this assistive technology offers methodological alternatives both for teaching science and other disciplines, with professionals in education such as teachers as researchers and with pupils with or without blindness, in the classroom or through workshops. Afterall, it is a game, which’s content may be changed to fit in any other subject, in order to enable any area of knowledge to the blind students.