An innovative approach for teacher students to learn about bullying via an immersive Virtual Reality bullying experience
2021 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Even though in general Swedish pupils have a high level of digital competence (Internetstiftelsen, 2019), a national initiative for a rapid and systematic digitalization of the educational system has been introduced in Sweden. In this context, teacher education is regarded as being of strategic importance for preparing student teachers to teach in a highly digitalized society (Sveriges Kommuner och Landsting, 2019). Here, innovative initiative is important for helping student teachers to develop professional digital competence (Lund, Furberg, Bakken & Engelien, 2014). One example of an innovative initiative is the development of Digital Learning Labs (DLL) that are closely connected to teacher education and offer student teachers and experienced teachers opportunities to explore digital technologies. At the University of Gävle (Sweden), the Digital Learning Lab (2020) offers a number of state of the art technologies, such as robots for programming, media-production and technologies for virtual and augmented realities (VR and AR). In research-based explorative studies, teachers and student teachers elaborate on technologies such as VR and AR (Fransson, Holmberg, & Westelius, 2020). This way, their views becomes involved in principled innovation processes to enact the technology in the best way possible for teaching and learning.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2021.
Keywords [en]
Virtual reality, VR, immersive, innovation, student teacher, teacher education, bullying
Keywords [sv]
Virtuell verklighet, VR, innovation, innovativ, lärarstudent, mobbing, lärarutbildning
National Category
Educational Sciences Didactics
Research subject
Innovative Learning
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-35611OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hig-35611DiVA, id: diva2:1543702
Conference
The American Educational Research Association (AERA) virtual annual meeting, 8-12 April, 2021, Orlando, USA.
2021-04-122021-04-122025-10-02Bibliographically approved