CC BY
26
AN INTERACTIVE APPROACH TO THE DEVELOPMENT
OF MOTIVATION FOR HEALTHY
LIFESTYLES AMONG THE YOUNG GENERATION
V. I. Gavrilov A. V. Shigabudinov
One of the main tasks of the National Educational Initiative "Our New School” is to evoke the desire among students to take care of their health, because health is an important factor for personal success. For this purpose "Our New School” proposes the application of new educational technologies and interactive aids.
From our point of view, precise steps to help foster motivation for healthy lifestyles and physical exercise involve media technologies, for example, video films. We have made a video film, "The Morning Adherent of Health”, in which a wide range of visual methods are used and the physiological changes in the body during the transition from a dreaming to a waking state are shown (the temporary preservation of the inhibitory processes of the nervous system, the reduction of the cognitive and physical working ability, sensitivity, speed of reaction, etc.). Information about blood supply and the part played by capillaries in this process are demonstrated in a form of cartoon. The essence of thoroughly selected physical exercises is revealed, enabling an increase in the amount of functioning capillaries, which leads to an intensity in blood circulation and improvement of blood supply to all body tissues. It is also demonstrated that the functions of muscle management are concentrated in the motor area of the brain. In the video film, much attention is paid to exercises for the joints and muscles of wrists, forearms and shoulders, reflexively stimulating the appropriate areas of brain, thus helping to normalize the condition of nervous system with a general health-improving effect.
By means of computer animation, the main support of our body - the backbone - is illustrated, to which, with the help of sinews, a complicated system of muscles that manage its motion is attached. Some warm up and stretching exercises for muscles of the cervico-thoracic and lumbar areas of the spine are demonstrated. The use of stretching exercises in the morning is justified by the specificity of human biological rhythms. The stretching of muscles improves blood supply and the nutrition of all organs and tissues.
The video demonstrates a sequence of morning exercises and methodical approaches to the use of physical exercise. A wide range of visual methods from modern computer art creates a synergistic effect with the narration in the video sequences - an effect that fosters motivation among youngsters for physical exercise and healthy lifestyles.
224
