Escape Room as an interlearing strategy to motivate reading in eight-year-olds

Abstract

The new silver methodological proposals currently in education, allow the use of active strategies such as play or gamification, in order to develop meaningful learning in children. From which arises the need to create interactive educational environments where children develop individually and collaboratively, skills such as reading, which are basic for learning. The objective of the research is to motivate children to read through an interlearing strategy such as the Escape Room. Which was verified through the application of a quasi-experimental methodology where the observation sheet was applied as a collection instrument, which consisted of 8 parametric questions from which the information that was analyzed through the SPSS program was collected, from which it was obtained that this technological tool awakens in children, motivation, attention and above all the development of critical thinking, in turn, it was achieved that they develop more digital skills in the use of these tools. Therefore, those teachers are constantly training in the new active methodology in the use of digital tools, to leave a traditional methodology and move to an active methodology. Finally, it is concluded that the Escape Room helps children to be motivated by reading using the interlearing strategy experienced various emotions when playing.