why today's students need a 3d education

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Why today’s students need a 3D education

Australian Visualisation ColloquiumNathan Bailey, Simplify Solutions

Arthur Nishimoto standing in front of his USS Enterprise simulationPhoto: Lance Long, EVL

Never again is someone going to pay you to answer a question that they can look up on Wikipedia

– Seth Godin

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How can we teach students to solve

problems that haven’t been solved

yet? 4

7th-Graders Discover Mysterious Cave on Mars

Optimal experience: when our body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile

– Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi7

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‘Flow’ and the Zone of Proximal Development

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ASLEEP CHILLING EASY FUN HARD REALLYHARD OUCH! EEK!

Can do unaided Can do with guidance Cannot do

Act

Data (Feedback

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Plan

Feedback loop

affordance: an action that an individual can potentially perform in his or her environment.

– James J. Gibson, The Theory of Affordances (1977)

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Most familiar (and overlooked!) affordance

Why is 3D worth the effort?

IC 1396 NebulaJ-P Metsävainio

via Jason Leigh, UH

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More tangible learning experiences

appear to provide greater affordances, leading to greater

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Virtual can be more powerful than real

eg. can pull apart a heart and put it back together, while still

watching it workCase Western with HoloLens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKpKlh1-en0

Knowledge is no longer power

In an information-abundant environment, it is the quality of the questions we ask and our capacity to analyse and synthesise that will define the quality of our contributions.

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Your toolkit

What opportunities does 3D provide for

innovative and engaging teaching?

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1. Immersion

Bambui, Cameroon

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Creating immersive experiences

• Create a story with tension (unresolved conflict)– define a relevant problem– develop the story– resolve the conflict– generalise the solution (and learning)

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2. Traditional 3D applications

Structural column

DoorWall

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Creating traditional 3D learning experiences

• Identify threshold concepts• Provide scaffolded models

(incremental complexity)• Provide multiple check-ins (for

students who get lost)• Consider opportunities for

differentiated learning

Linköping University

3. Information density and 3D visualisation

Thijs Damsma from the OpenEarth Initiative

Candle chart (Wikipedia)

Big data

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Creating 3D visualisation learning experiences for big data

• Use a panoramic view of data• Identify potential ways to visualise

data and the relationships between data

• Provide multiple points of interaction and exploration– ie. so students can explore in parallel

4. Internet of Things

Internet of Things

– Victor Lee, USU

Students need a 3D context to conceive

and explore 3D solutions

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Creating Internet of Things learning experiences

• Create scenarios• Employ design thinking

– www.designthinkingforeducators.com

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5. Social learning

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As a student, would you prefer a lecture with:

• 5 students; or• 500 students?

Optimal size for learning?

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Wikipedia – 5 or 500?

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Learning outcomes class participation and performance∝

Perry Samson, Data Mining to Predict Student Success in a Large Hybrid Class (2014)

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Modern workteam =? classroom

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Creating social learning experiences

• Identify problems that require multiple perspectives and parallel work

• Create defined roles that can be adopted and shared

• Augment the immersive environment with personalised devices– eg. smartphone + QR code

Every student matters

Closing comments

If you focus on the technology you will

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More technology: good or bad?Laptops with no vision =distracting (78%; 64%; 50%)• Paying attention to lectures (-.320)• Clear understanding of lectures (-.169)• Level of perceived understanding of

course material (-.191)Missouri School of Journalism

Credit: Brett Jordan, Flickr

65-80% of population are visual learners

– Felder?; Greenberg (2009)

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Performance versus preference

"Students retained 15% less information delivered verbally by the lecturer during PowerPoint presentations, but they preferred PowerPoint presentations over traditional presentations."

– Savoy et al, 2009

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Performance versus preference

“Students generally believed that the use of PowerPoint facilitated their learning even though grades were not significantly different”

– Apperson et al. 2006

Cockpit overwhelm

Learning is not transferring knowledge from me to you, but equipping you to create something I could not.

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Closing questions

• How can we make 3D immersive experiences more social? (in person and through social media)

• How can we let students take the lead in 3D immersive experiences? (creating as well as exploring)

• What are you going to STOP doing now that you're teaching in 3D?