Videogames and History: dialogs with the past

Abstract

This article reports a teaching training experience based on activities developed during the Programa Residência Pedagógica, in the field of History, at the Professor Morais State School. The current program is linked to CAPES (Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel) and works from the perspective of offering teacher training tied to theory and practice, through the contact with the teacher’s future work environment. In this context, the project “Digital Games and History” has been developed, and it seeks to build knowledge about certain subjects by means of a game selected and analyzed by those responsible for the Project, also showing how varied historical documents and methods can be. The chosen games were “Assassin's Creed: Rogue”; “Far Cry: Primal”; “Assassin's Creed: Origins”; “Assassin's Creed: Syndicate”, through which we worked with the uses and meanings of the production, circulation and usage of historical sources and the relationships between academic knowledge and the research used in the creation of these games. The platforms Instagram and Google Classroom have also been used as a means for interaction and knowledge sharing. The project has thus fostered discussions about the possibility of thinking of digital games as media resources capable of assisting the teaching and the learning process in contemporary times.