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Outdoor Education and Virtual Reality - Nature versus Technology - CARMEN ROTARU

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. Self-Discovery. “I started thinking about things”.

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Outdoor Education and Virtual Reality - Nature versus Technology - CARMEN ROTARU

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  1. Outdoor Education and Virtual Reality - Nature versus Technology - CARMEN ROTARU

  2. IPODS IN OUTDOOR ED: IS THERE A PLACE? Bearings

  3. Some Say NO WAY!

  4. To be outdoor (Bridle, 2004; White, n.d))

  5. 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)

  6. Research Shows … Even a patch of nature holds benefits (Lehrer, 2009)

  7. World of a Child School MySpace MSN Mobiles Text Messages FaceBook ChatRooms E-mails

  8. Lets take the advantages from both The Natural World and The Technological World,

  9. & mould them into learning experiences that maximise student learning, growth and personal development

  10. 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)

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

  12. 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.

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

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