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Outdoor Education and Virtual Reality
- Nature versus Technology -
CARMEN ROTARU
IPODS IN OUTDOOR ED: IS THERE A PLACE?
Bearings
Some Say NO WAY!
To be outdoor
(Bridle, 2004; White, n.d))
Reflection – Outdoor Camp
“I started thinking
about things”
Self-Discovery
Over-come
negative self-
beliefs
Discover strengths & abilities
Self-Efficacy transfers to
daily life(Lehrer, 2009)
Research Shows …
Even a patch of nature holds benefits
(Lehrer, 2009)
World of a Child
Mobiles
E-mails
Chat Rooms
MySpace
Text Messages
MSN
School
Lets take the advantages from both
The Natural World and
The Technological World,
& mould them into learning experiences
that maximise student learning,
growth and personal development
It’s the Thought That Counts…
It is not an individual who has an experience, rather it is experience
that results in the individual
(Zink, 2005)
www...• use of World Wide Web technology and web
design that aims to facilitate creativity, information sharing, and, most notably, collaboration among users.
Therefore, outdoor education has multiple meanings that cross the
border to the virtual reality and lead to feelings,
curiosity,
emotions,
discovery,
reflection,
redefining the (his) world identity.
The key is to find ways to preserve the unique benefits of both natural and virtual
environment.
