Estrategia gamificada en la educación física para la promoción de los hábitos de vida saludable

Abstract

Through a literature review, it is identified that in school children the issue of healthy lifestyle habits can be affected by the social context in which the person is, it is also recognized that physical inactivity, poor diet in terms of consumption of fruits and vegetables, increased consumption of sugary and carbonated drinks, poor quality of sleep and high exposure to digital screens are factors that are recognized as unhealthy habits in school children, based on this we can say that our goal is to identify the importance of the implementation of educational gamification in physical education, This through a gamified strategy, which is a set of activities and processes that help or solve a problem related to learning or education through game mechanics, the recommendation that is achieved in the work is to implement programs that use gamification as a strategy for the promotion of good habits of healthy living in schoolchildren, thus leaving a positive long-term impact on the lifestyle of people.