THE MUTUAL INFLUENCE OF PSYCHOMOTOR ACTIVITY AND COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT OF PRESCHOOL CHILDREN IN THE INFORMATION AND EDUCATION ENVIRONMENT

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to analyse the influence of the emotional and affective content of pedagogical influences transmitted by means of information technologies on the psychomotor development of an older preschool child. The relevance of the study is due to the importance of psychomotor development in childhood, which is the basis of a child’s mental development at school age. The pedagogical experiment involved 26 children aged 5 ± 0.4 years, divided into CG, EG1 and EG2 groups. During the period of implementation of psychomotor practices (3 months), the participants of the CG did not participate in them. Motor exercises with EG1 children using an educational computer game were conducted once a week, and with EG2 children twice a week. The comparison of the results obtained during the implementation of the pedagogical experiment, at the stages before and after its organisation, made it possible to conclude about the effectiveness of systematisation of psychomotor activity using information technology tools for the development of children’s cognitive abilities.