Activity #3 – Virtual Field Trips

A response to the Virtual Field Trips Activity
created May 8, 2024 by Tam Visser (@t_visser2)

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The use of technology in the classrooms have so many unique advantages, including the use of virtual field trips. I have always thought of field trips for exploring a place, but this activity allowed me to discover some great alternatives for our digital literacy computer classes! These classes are offered to our community as a funded project to increase people’s comfort with computers. Many of our students have very little computer experience and the concept of how they work can be difficult to explain.

After exploring the options that Google Arts & Culture offers for virtual field trips, I found a great explanatory visual field trip through a computer that explains “How Computers Work” (https://artsandculture.google.com/story/DgWBfSPf_sFSow). This visual journey through a computer offers our students the chance to better understand how a computer works without having to take one apart or try to piece random images together for them. This is great!

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