Title:	THE EFFECTS OF A DIGITAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT ON CHILDREN’S DIVERGENT MOVEMENT ABILITY
Author(s):	Nikolas Apostolakis, Panagiotis Antoniou, Panagiotes Anastasiades, Alexandros Karipidis
ISBN:	978-972-8939-38-0
Editors:	Miguel Baptista Nunes and Pedro Isaías
Year:	2011
Edition:	Volume I
Keywords:	Digital Learning Environment, motor creativity, fluency, flexibility
Type:	Full Paper
First Page:	35
Last Page:	41
Language:	English
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Paper Abstract:	Creativity and the Information and Communication Technologies are considered as key factors for social and personal development. New technologies can play an important role in developing learners’ creativity. Previous research has argued that information technology should be used to foster creativity within education. When the children act as movers they modify, adapt and combine fundamental movements. When creativity is expressed with a movement, is defined as a creative movement and its outcome as a creative product which is the result of the free and spontaneous expression of the child. The criterion measures of motor creativity are motor fluency, motor flexibility and originality. Aim of the study was the investigation of the effects of a Digital Learning Environment (DLE), focused on basketball elements, on the divergent movement ability of elementary school students. 86 students of the last grade of the elementary divided in 2 groups participated in the study. The results of the present study showed that the DLE and its content effect with no significant difference among the three subgroups of the experimental group and helped the students to express themselves, to improve and keep in a higher level their previous divergent movement ability.
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