This virtual reality lesson planning guide outlines how VR technology can help prepare students with ASD for community-based instruction trips by familiarizing them with the new environments. The teacher will create Google Cardboard VR tours of upcoming trip locations and accompany them with social stories. Each student will experience the VR tour and social story individually with the teacher 3-6 days before the trip to help reduce anxiety. Repeating the process multiple times and observing student behavior on the trip will help determine if using VR to prepare students was effective.
This virtual reality lesson planning guide outlines how VR technology can help prepare students with ASD for community-based instruction trips by familiarizing them with the new environments. The teacher will create Google Cardboard VR tours of upcoming trip locations and accompany them with social stories. Each student will experience the VR tour and social story individually with the teacher 3-6 days before the trip to help reduce anxiety. Repeating the process multiple times and observing student behavior on the trip will help determine if using VR to prepare students was effective.
This virtual reality lesson planning guide outlines how VR technology can help prepare students with ASD for community-based instruction trips by familiarizing them with the new environments. The teacher will create Google Cardboard VR tours of upcoming trip locations and accompany them with social stories. Each student will experience the VR tour and social story individually with the teacher 3-6 days before the trip to help reduce anxiety. Repeating the process multiple times and observing student behavior on the trip will help determine if using VR to prepare students was effective.
This virtual reality lesson planning guide outlines how VR technology can help prepare students with ASD for community-based instruction trips by familiarizing them with the new environments. The teacher will create Google Cardboard VR tours of upcoming trip locations and accompany them with social stories. Each student will experience the VR tour and social story individually with the teacher 3-6 days before the trip to help reduce anxiety. Repeating the process multiple times and observing student behavior on the trip will help determine if using VR to prepare students was effective.
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Virtual Reality Lesson Planning Guide
Problem/Challenge Target Audience Technology
New environments can be extremely This would be used for all of our students I will create a virtual reality tour using challenging and unnerving for students with in the Functional Adaptive Learning Google Cardboard for CBI trips. This will ASD. Often times when we go on trips, our Support (FALS) program that require ensure that the students are viewing the students with ASD become overwhelmed and advance preparation for a change in exact place they will be visiting. want to leave the trip. Being able to prepare environment and schedule https://vr.google.com/cardboard/ students ahead of time for upcoming (approximately 6 students). I will solely use this for of technology to Community Based Instruction (CBI) trips Using virtual technology software will prepare the students for our CBI trips. would help with the transition to a new place. help students overcome some of their Instructional Materials Needed: Using virtual reality software would give the anxiety related to new places. This will o Google Cardboard VR video students peace of mind for what the also help them to better understand social o Google Cardboard goggles environment will look like and sound like. It norms in different environments. o Social story to match VR tour would also provide them with an opportunity to see the amount of people that will be around in that type of environment.
Guiding Questions Pedagogical Approach Reflection
How many times will students complete I will begin with an explanation of how Google Cardboard goggles Please see Blackboard the VR tour and social story? I will have the work and how we are going to use them. Discussion Board to students complete the VR tour and social I will introduce the VR videos for the upcoming trip and the social post both reflection story each day leading up to the trip. This story. responses. could be as little as 3 days up to 6 days I will go through this with each student individually. prior to the trip. Once I have gone through the video and social story, I will discuss Will other students (other than students with the student how they are feeling about the upcoming trip with ASD) have access to this technology? and if they have any questions. Other students will have access to this I will repeat this process at least three times with each student to technology but not as often as the other ensure their comfort level with the upcoming trip. students. How will I determine if this method was effective? Student behavior during the trip will determine if this was an effective method. If the technology isn’t working, what will I do? If the technology is not working, we will use the social story and videos/pictures from online.
