SMT-Introducing virtual reality into environmental education: develop 21st century skills and environmental literacy through creating virtual reality artifacts

• In Event: SMT-Introducing virtual reality into environmental education: develop 21st century skills and environmental literacy through creating virtual reality artifacts

Short Description

Many teenagers today are obsessed with the Internet, which results in a disconnection from the environment. We proposed an instructional design framework to involve K-12 students as virtual reality content creators to introduce local environment, which aims to develop their 21st century skills and environmental literacy. Through flipped learning and spiral project-based learning experiences, 32 middle school students, in an afterschool program (proof-of-concept work), showed significant improvement in their 21st century skills and environmental literacy

Authors

• Presenter: Hsiao-Ping Hsu, Department of Curriculum & Instruction, University of Texas at Austin

• Presenter: Wenting Zou, University of Texas at Austin

• Contributor: Ting-Yu Hsu, Graduate Institute of Information and Computer Education, National Taiwan Normal University

• Contributor: Joan Hughes, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education, UT-Austin

• Presenter: Yi Shi, the University of Texas at Austin