Entorno virtual de aprendizaje para el fortalecimiento de la empatía en niños y niñas de primaria a través de la estrategia escape room, una propuesta pedagógica

Abstract

Empathy is one of the qualities present in the development of being, one of the relevant skills for interpersonal relationships of children within the educational context, therefore, the main objective of this research was to strengthen this quality through the didactic proposal of the creation of a virtual learning environment. to carry out the design of this virtual environment, a characterization of interests was developed, which located the research categories: information and communication technologies and emotional intelligence.

Based on the theoretical construct, the virtual learning environment EMPAUTIC was designed by means of the design-based research methodology, within which activities were proposed around the escape room strategy, where a number of digital tools were linked to challenges, games, clues, representations, among others, to be developed in a b-learning manner, i.e. mixing virtuality with face-to-face. In the analysis of the activities applied from the pilot test, active participation, new interpersonal relationships, collaborative work, management of emotions and new scenarios of interaction and play among the group of elementary school students were evidenced.