Outdoor Education and Virtual Reality

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Outdoor Education and Virtual Reality - Nature
versus Technology - CARMEN ROTARU
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IPODS IN OUTDOOR ED IS THERE A PLACE?
Bearings
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Some Say NO WAY!
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To be outdoor
(Bridle, 2004 White, n.d))
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Reflection Outdoor Camp
Self-Discovery
I started thinking about things
Discover strengths abilities
Over-come negative self-beliefs
Self-Efficacy transfers to daily life
(Lehrer, 2009)
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Research Shows

• Even a patch of nature holds benefits

(Lehrer, 2009)
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World of a Child
School
MySpace
MSN
Mobiles
Text Messages
FaceBook
Chat Rooms
E-mails
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• Lets take the advantages from both
• The Natural World and
• The Technological World,

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• mould them into learning experiences
• that maximise student learning,
• growth and personal development

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Its the Thought That Counts

• It is not an individual
• who has an experience,
• rather it is experience
• that results in the individual

(Zink, 2005)
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• use of World Wide Web technology and web design
  that aims to facilitate creativity, information
  sharing, and, most notably, collaboration among
  users.

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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.
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• The key is to find ways to preserve the unique
  benefits of both natural and virtual environment.