The Contribution of Nintendo Wii® in children’s motricity

Gil, Henrique; Santos, Tânia Raquel Farinha; Honório, Samuel

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The Contribution of Nintendo Wii® in children’s motricity

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dc.contributor.author	Gil, Henrique
dc.contributor.author	Santos, Tânia Raquel Farinha
dc.contributor.author	Honório, Samuel
dc.date.accessioned	2019-01-18T11:28:38Z
dc.date.available	2019-01-18T11:28:38Z
dc.date.issued	2018
dc.description.abstract	The increasingly visible sedentarism in the children of our current society is a problem that has been worrying the Childhood Educators. Taking into account the advancement of technology and the fact that children in today's activity rooms are considered as Digital Natives, we intend to introduce the Nintendo Wii® into the motor activities developed by children in order to verify their contribution to children's motor skills. To this end, the objectives of this study focused on the promotion of digital resources in activities related to motor expression; the analysis of the effect of the practice of motor activities performed with Nintendo Wii® and the identification of changes in children's motor development, namely in the analyzed variables, balance, laterality, body notion and global praxia, resulting from practice in the environment virtual. The present investigation was developed in the Supervised Practice in Pre-School Education, in a group of children between the ages of 4 and 5 years. In this investigation the qualitative and quantitative paradigm was combined. A mixed qualitative approach was also developed, combining action research and exploratory case study, due to the uniqueness of the study. For the collection of data, several instruments and techniques were used: participant observation, field notes, audiovisual media, BPM, semistructured interview and questionnaire surveys. The implementation was developed in seven sessions, in which the children of the experimental group used the Nintendo Wii® and its accessories (Wii Remote and Balance Board). After the due analysis of all the collected data, we can conclude that the Nintendo Wii® contributes significantly in the children's motricity, that is, in the improvement of motor skills. It is noteworthy that the accomplishment of motor activities with the Nintendo Wii® generated in the children spontaneous collaborative spirit; healthy competition, because what mattered was the accomplishment of motor activities and not exactly the gain of points, and the punctuation emerged as a motivating element in terms of people, giving rise to greater feelings of selfesteem.	pt_PT
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dc.identifier.citation	GIL, Henrique ; SANTOS, Tânia ; HONÓRIO, Samuel (2018) - The Contribution of Nintendo Wii® in children’s motricity. In International Symposium on Computers in Education (SIIE), Jerez, 19-21 de September : proceedings. Jerez : IEEE, p. 1-5.	pt_PT
dc.identifier.doi	10.1109/SIIE.2018.8586777	pt_PT
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10400.11/6331
dc.language.iso	eng	pt_PT
dc.peerreviewed	yes	pt_PT
dc.publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers	pt_PT
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/	pt_PT
dc.subject	Chil motricity	pt_PT
dc.subject	Information and Communication Techonologies	pt_PT
dc.subject	Physical education	pt_PT
dc.subject	Nintendo Wii®.	pt_PT
dc.title	The Contribution of Nintendo Wii® in children’s motricity	pt_PT
dc.type	journal article
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oaire.citation.conferencePlace	Jerez (Cadiz), Spain	pt_PT
oaire.citation.endPage	5	pt_PT
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oaire.citation.title	International Symposium on Computers in Education (SIIE	pt_PT
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person.givenName	Henrique Manuel Pires Teixeira
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