History and RE at Rievaulx Abbey

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Introduction

Using mobile technology can be a great way to transform traditional field trips into a more engaging learning scenario that allows deeper and more meaningful learning. On a field trip to Rievaulx Abbey in the North York Moors of Yorkshire a group of teacher trainees explore the Abbey and it's day to day life and create a video product for the Abbey (service learning).

Objective of this scenario

  • Students make a YouTube video for the purpose of informing visitors at the Abbey using QR-Codes, Augmented Reality, video chat and iMovie.
  • Students collect all the information for the video themselves by using the above mentioned apps. Therefore they will learn more actively and they will be more engaged in their own learning process.
  • The students being on site and creating a video for a real life purpose, makes this task authentic.

Description of the learning scenario

Students at Riveaulx are given their tasks with help of a video avatar which has been pre-arranged by their lecturer at the university (App Telegami). The app tells them to explore and recontruced the abbeys history and to produce a video guide for the visitors center of Rievaulx Abbey. In order to give students access to historical data such as primary sources and physical reconstructions of the former abbey, this learning scenario is scaffolded by  QR-codes and augmented reality.

Impact of the learning scenario on students

The students learning experience has been arranged into a self guided and self paced exploration, providing them with all the necessary information for their learning product. The students can then produce their historical narration in forms of a video documentary of the abbeys history which reflects their learning outcome. The learners role has completed transformed from passive consumption into active learning (Active-Consumer-Design, Kerber/Mügge 2014a).
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References

Kerber, Ulf; Holger Mügge (2014a): EduQuest - Die eigene App für Führungen, Quizzes und georeferenziertes Lernen selbst erstellen. In: L.A. multimedia. Heft 4/2014
Kerber, Ulf; Holger Mügge (2014b): „Bewegte Geschichten und Computerspiele zum Davonlaufen“ in: Baden-Württemberg Stiftung / Stiftung Lesen (Hrsg.): Lesen in Bewegung. Innovative Leseförderung mit Bewegungsansätzen. Dokumentation einer Tagung der Baden-Württemberg Stiftung und der Stiftung Lesen. Mainz, Stuttgart 2014

Credits

Anbjörg Egland, Lutz Neumeier, Sytske van der Zweep, Jens Palkowitsch-Kühl, Ritchie Djokarso & ​Ulf Kerber

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