The Impact of Gamification in Basic Education. Case Study: Gabriel Ramos Millán Preschool, State of Mexico

Abstract

Pre-school education is considered the fundamental and essential stage in which students receive formal education. It is the first approach after the family nucleus, where they transform the previous learnings they receive informally at home into formal learnings. During this process, the aim is to achieve comprehensive development in children.

However, the school is considered a space that offers opportunities in which students favor skills and values that are increasingly strengthened over time. It is also important that teachers implement harmonious learning environments in their classrooms so that students can build their confidence and carry out the planned activities.

These activities are aimed at using gamification in preschool education, such as ICT and TAC technological tools, which allow teachers to strengthen and favor students' learning by implementing various activities that represent a challenge for them and that allow them to put different skills into play to achieve the expected learnings and make those knowledge meaningful learnings.

To this end, a survey was implemented to 60 participants of the Gabriel Ramos Millán Kindergarten to measure the impact that gamification has had on education, obtaining a reliability of 0.92% of Cronbach's Alpha, being reliable because the questions were answered in their entirety. Through this implementation, it was possible to appreciate that the use of gamification has a fundamental part in the process of interaction between the teacher and the student through learning. Therefore, it allows to reinforce the expected learnings that the children have acquired and they already do it in a more playful, innovative way and, above all, the children do it with more emotion and interest in continuing to experiment.