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Facilitating virtual fieldwork
From the course: Teaching with Technology
Facilitating virtual fieldwork
- Everyone loves a field trip, but they're not always practical. Trying to get an entire class to one location at the same time presents challenges, such as collecting permission slips, arranging transportation, dealing with entrance fees and hoping for good weather. One substitute for an in-person field trip would be a virtual field trip where students visit an interactive website or participate in a video conference. However, you may be able to accomplish more educationally by having students go to different real-world locations and report back virtually. This turns a field trip into what we'll call virtual fieldwork. You can use virtual fieldwork in a number of ways: extend classroom lessons or lab projects, join citizen science projects, create collaborative collections and share real-world experiences related to course concepts. Virtual fieldwork can extend classroom lessons or lab projects by collecting data for students to analyze, individually or in groups. For example, as…
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