AGILITY OF FINE MOTORITY IN CHILDREN WHEN PERFORMING MECHANOGRAPHY GAMES

Motor skills and play are part of a global process of teaching. For the child, playing is the best way to learn, because he wants to play and there is a permanent disposition for it, as a teacher we must rely on recreational digitized activities, as they are new ways of playing with children. The development of motor agility plays a crucial role in school readiness and in the cognitive development of children, the control of fine motor skills of the hands is fundamental for the realization of vital movements and coordination to write. Most children learn to control these fine motor movements in the early years of childhood. In the first grade children must already have developed the motor agility and spatial relationships, however, some children have problems to perfect these motor agility, so we must look for a learning strategy to strengthen these agilities.

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The keyboard is an excellent tool to develop fine motor agility in children of the first grade, by applying typing games as a strategy for learning that agility is strengthened and therefore improves their skills when typing on the keyboard, as games Typing allows children to type correctly with speed and accuracy. These games will also help you to write without problems, to be able to hold the pencil in a correct position, easily cross the middle line of the body among other skills and motor skills.

The ideal teaching methods to carry out this activity in the computer classroom, are the didactic method, because we guide children to interact with the components of the computer, and to play with their own skills and abilities, which will allow them to develop motor agility that is what is intended to achieve when applying this strategy. And the rote, since the typing is a method based on the memory of the muscles of the hands and fingers. It is also carried out without understanding what was fixed in the memory, when children learn the keys of the keyboard, because they are playing and repeat it as many times as necessary, remember the keys easily, because in this case the rote learning is easy for them.

There are many free online websites that contain typing games among which stand out: http://www.interdidactica.es https://www.velocidactil.es/ http://juegosdemecanografia.com/ http: //www.funnygames.es https://www.educaciontrespuntocero.com https://sense-lang.org/ among others, but if the internet is not good, we can also download programs of typing games, such as : Tux Typing Spanish, Rapid Typing 5, MecaNet, Typing 10, Deluxe Typing that can be installed on computers in the computer room for children to play and therefore learn.

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If teachers apply this strategy for learning in children who study first grade, we can verify that they strengthen the fine motor agility of the hands and fingers of children, also, using the keyboard improves reading and writing, a basic aspect of healthy growth and development in children, and while they are writing, they play with words, learning to express themselves and expanding their visual memory. It should be noted that learning the correct handling of the keyboard at an early age will allow a lifelong dexterity in children and will decrease the development of bad habits in them.