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Design of Virtual Educational Activities to Strengthen Laterality in Early Childhood

Abstract:

The current investigation analyzed the effectiveness of the use of virtual educational activities through technological tools to verify the incidence in the strengthening of laterality in children from 4 to 6 years of initial education, having as indicators spatial notions, eye-hand coordination, auditory and visual discrimination, and balance. A new strategy has been implemented within the educational field through the design of an online course on the Moodle Academy platform comprising 4 units and 19 activities in synchronous and asynchronous classes, with a sample of n = 54 children in a population of 80 participants from different provinces of the country (and also a foreign child). The research design is exploratory and descriptive, and descriptive statistics was used to analyze the data on the basis of a pre-test (Harris Test) and a post-test (observation in synchronous classes). We observed that in the age range of 4–5 years 33 children had right laterality, 3 had left laterality and 11 had crossed laterality; in the age range of 5–6 years, we observed that 23 had right laterality, 2 had left laterality and 2 had crossed laterality. We conclude that the children still hadn’t defined their laterality due to the fact that the studied age ranges are within the “fixation pase” and “spatial orientation pase” respectively. It should be stressed that the ages where lateralities are defined are 8–11 years, in the “maturation pase”.