The effect of an educational curriculum using virtual reality glasses in improving some kinetic abilities and learning freestyle swimming for first-year primary school students

Abstract

The study aimed to pay attention to and exploit the new technologies and modern devices in teaching freestyle swimming by directing children to develop their awareness and understanding of the technological development that the world is dealing with. The two researchers prepared an educational curriculum using virtual reality glasses in order to provide an environment similar to the real environment that simulates the perceptions of children’s minds in the world. Virtually to form a complete picture of freestyle swimming skills, and from here the problem came as a result of the children’s excessive attachment and passion to modern and advanced devices and technologies and spending most of their time using modern technologies that are difficult for an adult to use, but we find that children are more capable of dealing with them, so the two researchers noticed this. The problem and the idea crystallized to solve this problem in using the positive side of this technology to improve some kinetic abilities and learn free-swimming skills. The experimental approach was adopted by designing the experimental and control groups on a sample of (20) children in the first grade of primary school, and they were chosen intentionally with a percentage of (47.619%) from their original population represented by the students of the first grade of primary school at Iraq International School for the academic year (2023-2024) who are continuing the regular and attendance hours. The sample was divided into two groups, experimental and control, and the experiment was conducted on the children of the experimental group for period of (6) consecutive weeks at the rate of two units per week. After completion, the results were processed with the SPSS system to form the conclusions and recommendations that it is possible to use smart glasses technology in practical lessons to learn freestyle swimming skills for children. The use of virtual reality glasses in swimming lessons helps improve some of the children’s kinetic abilities and learning freestyle swimming, as the group that used the smart glasses technology outperformed the children who learned without it. It is necessary to increase interest in teaching children according to the virtual reality glasses technology, which provided them with excitement and excitement in swimming. Learning and searching for what is new greatly serves the learning process. and this achieves one of the sustainable development goals of the United Nations in Iraq which is (Quality Education).