Abstract:

At our department, we include game elements in the teaching process. The pandemic situation affected all our activities, including this one. During the lockdown, we decided to look for alternative teaching tools for teaching informatics. It was a search for didactic games that could be used in the gamification of teaching. We tried to test the games on a small sample of students within our capabilities. The benchmark for us was the results of students in the tests. We focused in the search on the features that a proper educational game should have connected to its possible use for teaching in praxis. We analysed several tools that had gamification or game-based learning elements. Based on the analysis, we selected three games focused on chosen thematic units. We provided the games to the students in the experimental group. The control group had no access to the games. Then we tested the impact of the games on students’ performance in testing. We can conclude that even in our small sample of students, we observed a positive impact of games on their learning.

Keywords:

Gamification, game and education, teaching tools, pedagogical experiment.