Conference paper 2021

Proposal for the Production of Virtual Reality Environments in Elementary Education with a Constructivist Approach

Proceedings of International Conference on Computational Thinking Education
Conference · pp. 88-91
Abstract

Currently, education continues to search for new strategies that contribute to an improvement in the learning of children in primary education and one of the ways is to use emerging technologies. In this sense, virtual reality environments allow the child to build this knowledge in an immersive way and through various forms of interaction to be more intuitive with the environment allowing to reach knowledge. In this work, virtual reality environments are proposed as a support for basic education in regular children and children with learning difficulties through the constructivism approach. The elements involved in the design of the software and the multidisciplinary work for the creation of these virtual reality environments are presented. A case study is presented where a virtual reality environment is used by teachers of a basic education institution in Mexico as part of their strategies to strengthen attention and hyperactivity activities and cognitive stimulation in children and to give continuity to the activities under the confinement measures established as a consequence of the pandemic. © 2021, The Education University of Hong Kong. All rights reserved.

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Virtual reality Constructivism Elementary education special needs

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Universidad Católica de Santa María, Arequipa, Arequipa, Peru
Quantum Knowledge City, Center for Research in Mathematics, Zacatecas, ZAC, Mexico
CONACY Research fellow, Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas, Zacatecas, Zacatecas, Mexico
Universidad Continental, Huancayo, Junin, Peru
Guadalajaras University, Guadalajara, JAL, Mexico
Funding & Acknowledgements
Consejo Nacional de Humanidades, Ciencias y Tecnologías, Conahcyt
The authors would like to thank CONACYT for the support provided for this research, the \u201CJos\u00E9 Mar\u00EDa Morelos y Pav\u00F3n Institute\u201D, Ojuelos de Jalisco, Mexico, and the \u201CRegular Education Support Services Unit No. 19\u201D (USAER-19), Aguascalientes, Mexico, for their collaboration and for providing the personnel and resources to carry out the case study, and all the people who participated in the communities of Vaquer\u00EDas and Matancillas, Jalisco, Mexico. This work is dedicated to the memory of the student Gerardo Ortiz Agui\u00F1aga (1995-2020) student of CIMAT Zacatecas Mexico and to his passion and dedication for the development of this research, for which we honor his memory.
Grant: USAER-19
The authors would like to thank CONACYT for the support provided for this research, the \u201CJos\u00E9 Mar\u00EDa Morelos y Pav\u00F3n Institute\u201D, Ojuelos de Jalisco, Mexico, and the \u201CRegular Education Support Services Unit No. 19\u201D (USAER-19), Aguascalientes, Mexico, for their collaboration and for providing the personnel and resources to carry out the case study, and all the people who participated in the communities of Vaquer\u00EDas and Matancillas, Jalisco, Mexico. This work is dedicated to the memory of the student Gerardo Ortiz Agui\u00F1aga (1995-2020) student of CIMAT Zacatecas Mexico and to his passion and dedication for the development of this research, for which we honor his memory.
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  • Language English