Interactive multimedia technologies as a means of developing the emotional intelligence of primary school children

Abstract

In modern education system, development of students’ capability to manage emotions through intellectual processes is essential. During this study, the authors analyzed normative documents, and explored relationship between concepts “emotional intelligence” and “multimedia technologies”. The paper is aimed at exploring interactive multimedia technologies as a means of developing emotional intelligence among primary schoolchildren. The 2nd-grade students from I. Altynsarin gymnasium school No. 65 were selected for experimental work, among them grade “B” for control group, grade “G” for experimental group. The research was conducted through verifying, forming and control stages. At the verifying stage, to identify emotional intelligence of primary schoolchildren, “What? Why? How?” M.A. Nguyen’s diagnostic technique was applied. The forming experiment was conducted from October to December of the 2023–2024 academic year. At this stage, interactive development of emotional intelligence among primary schoolchildren is cultivated utilizing learningapps.org multimedia program. This program allows to implement assignments, such as “Birds of animals”, “Empathy. Emotion”, “Intellectual emotion”, “Guess the meaning of proverbs”. The control stage indicated that these assignments of the forming stage were effective and these interactive multimedia technologies such as learningapps.org foster students’ mental abilities, enabling to determine how emotional intelligence affects perception, understanding and management.