Virtual reality as a tool in history education: Risks and opportunities
Join Rūta Kazlauskaitė as she explores virtual reality (VR) as a perspective- and emotion-training device with significant implications for history education and memory politics.
Virtual reality as a tool in history education: Risks and opportunities
18 Apr 2023, 16:00 – 17:30
Virtual reality (VR) is a memory technology that enables users to acquire embodied, first-person memories of events they did not live through personally and is increasingly used in museums, heritage sites and school education.
Rūta will discuss the illusion of immediacy and proximity and how VR may assist in experimenting with different historical perspectives. She will also talk about the necessity of critical digital literacy skills in the emergent new media landscape of extended realities to prevent the implantation of psychologically suggestive disinformation.
This event will be particularly useful for researchers and practitioners interested in history education and virtual reality.
Related links
History in Education seminar series
This seminar is part of this series. This series is exploring teaching and learning about the past in formal and informal education.
Dr Rūta Kazlauskaitė
Postdoctoral researcher
the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki
Further information
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Pre-booking essential
Cost
Free
Open to
All
Availability
Yes