Realidad Inmersiva: Herramienta educativa para desarrollar el pensamiento computacional

Abstract

The objective of this study was to analyze immersive reality as an educational tool to develop computational thinking. This research arises as a concern for the weaknesses observed in the performance of students in the educational institutions of the municipality of Sábanas de San Ángel, Department of Magdalena Colombia, who have low performance, noting also that teachers do not employ strategies that include the use of technologies to motivate the participation of students. The methodology of the study was based on the qualitative approach and phenomenological method; the technique to collect information was an interview structure, as an instrument a fixed and sequential interview script with open questions was used, which was applied to 12 teachers. The Atlas Ti software was used to analyze the data, the triangulation methods were considered: empirical moment, from which the new categories were extracted, the theoretical moment, which allowed explaining the new elements and the argumentative moment, where the student establishes a position based on his experience and the information received from the experience of the interviewees and the theories exposed. The results showed that immersive reality has motivational and simulation foundations that encourage students' interest and active participation. It was concluded that immersive reality is a tool that promotes the development of computational thinking in students.