Virtual reality a journey to motivate literacy in middle school students.

Abstract

Education is a dynamic and constantly changing process, the motivation to read and write is the interest and desire that an individual has to read and write, it is very important to instill reading and writing habits from childhood, this to prepare a society with reading habits, and with the desire and interest to know what is new. According to the national survey aimed at determining reading habits in Ecuadorian inhabitants, with a total sample of 15,492 distributed in the provinces of the country, it was determined that 92% practice the habit of reading in different resources, 76.7% have daily reading habits, 56.7% use the cell phone as a resource for reading, 33.9% make use of printed texts and 57.5% practice reading through books. Therefore, the present research demonstrates the great contribution and impact of Virtual Reality (VR) through the application of a survey to 22 teachers of an Educational Institution as an innovative way to help students overcome difficulties or to generate a higher rate of interest in reading and writing.