AjuMetaverso : meios digitais no Ensino de História

Abstract

The work presents the use of the metaverse through the creation of the AjuMetaverso digital modeling environment. It combines the applicability of digital media in History Teaching, using cultural heritage as a way of working in the digital universe with historical themes in an innovative way. Due to the Covid19 pandemic, which prompted social isolation between 2020 and 2021, it was necessary to adopt the tools of the digital field for the continuity of Teaching in the world. As a general objective, we sought to develop an immersive digital environment with built spaces that represent the material cultural heritage in Aracaju (SE) as a methodological resource for Teaching History. The specific objectives of this work are: 1. to demonstrate how the metaverse is being worked on in the 21st century, driven by the interest of companies like Facebook after similar attempts with gamification such as Second Life and The Sims; 2. Addressing how History Teaching fits into this immersive digital field; 3. understand the historicity of the places in Aracaju that were used to create the metaverse; 4. understand the digital inclusion process from the discussion on an application plan for this project. The research methodology comprised a survey of textual references in databases such as the Capes Journal Portal, Google Scholar, Scielo, among others, with the use of articles, monographs, dissertations and academic theses, as well as books on the subject. For the qualitative critical analysis of content, systematizations and contrasts of concepts, contexts and approaches were carried out. In this sense, the studies by Freire (1996), Novak & Gowin (1996) on Education, Bloch (2001) on History, Ricoeur (2007) and Chuva (2012) on memory, history, oblivion and cultural heritage, Gil & Werle (2016), Fraga (2019) and Oliveira (2020) on games, cultural heritage and History Teaching, Ossi (1955) and Diniz (2009) on city architecture and memory of the city of Aracaju, Bossavit et alii (2018) and Geismar (2018) on Educational Gamefication and Digital Objects, Marcela Albaine Costa (2019) on History Teaching and Digital School Historiography, and Schlemera & Backesb (2016) on Metaverse and knowledge construction, among other authors. For the digital modeling of AjuMetaverso, the Blender software, the Unity game engine and the digital platform Mozilla Hubs were used. This technological development research applied to History Teaching was awarded an Inova TCC scholarship (Edital n° 15/2022) from the Center for Innovation and Technological Transfer (CINTTEC) of the Federal University of Sergipe (UFS).