Experimental Research on the Integration of "Internet+" into Middle School Basketball Teaching-A Case Study of the WeChat Platform

Abstract

Impacted by the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic at the beginning of 2020, offline collective teaching was suspended in schools. Consequently, offline physical education teaching has been resumed, after COVID-19 while spawning rapid development of online and offline "mixed" teaching. The object of this research is to examine the effect of the integration of "Internet+" into middle school basketball teaching compared to traditional basketball teaching. The methodology was to investigate the issue via the control group method. In this research, a total of 80 students from two 2020 classes (that is, where students were admitted in the year 2020) in XX Middle School were selected as the main research objects regarding the integration of WeChat into middle school basketball teaching. The 80 students were divided into an experimental group and a control group, (small classes 1 and 2 represented the experimental group and the control group, respectively). Each contained 40 students (20 male and 20 female students). The research discovered that compared with traditional basketball teaching method, the "Internet+"-based method was important in improving students' basketball learning performance. In addition, it enhanced students' interest in basketball learning, as well as to a significant extent their autonomous learning ability. However, no obvious differences were observed between the two teaching methods in increasing the frequency of when students played basketball.