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

FaceBook

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.