Lisa Liseno (she/her/hers): One.
Lisa Liseno (she/her/hers): Yes. Happy Friday to you to Jessica.
Lisa Liseno (she/her/hers): And everyone
Lisa Liseno (she/her/hers): Good to see you all. We'll, we'll go ahead and get started. I think we do have a few more people joining us, but let's
Lisa Liseno (she/her/hers): Will might as well just go ahead and start. I'm Dr. Lisa was no I'm the director of the program for instructional excellence or pie for short. And we are very excited.
Lisa Liseno (she/her/hers): That we have a wonderful workshop for you today and that it is the wonderful day of Friday on top of it. So two wonderful things that are happening right now.
Lisa Liseno (she/her/hers): Thank you for joining us again. And I'd like to go ahead and welcome you to enhancing teaching and virtual reality. Dr. K is here from
Lisa Liseno (she/her/hers): Educational Psychology and learning systems and I'll go ahead and hand things over to her and she will probably introduce the folks that she has with her here today.
Fengfeng Ke: Yes. Hi everyone this is phone bunker. And I'm found one of the program crowds instructional systems and learning technologies, which is under
Fengfeng Ke: The department of educational psychology and learning systems. And we actually have a team here. So one chip, who in Luke all the doctoral students that have been helping with me with this project.
Fengfeng Ke: And we are more than happy to be here and like what Lisa said this is a wonderful moment of the Friday to talk about virtual reality. And hopefully, this can prepare you good enough.
Fengfeng Ke: For the weekend and the coming semester to hopefully have a different view about what we are doing right now in E learning in virtual teaching and learning situation so
Fengfeng Ke: This is a topic about the virtual reality. And that's why this workshop will be quite hands on and we're going to spend most time actually playing as a teacher or student in different scenarios of teaching in virtual word
Fengfeng Ke: And you're going to see some of the virtual world look they're familiar at light Florida State University campus. If you haven't visited the campus for some time. This may remind you
Fengfeng Ke: Of the memory again in our beautiful FSU campers. But before we go ahead and do that. I just want to spend maybe 10 minutes do a very brief introduction about why we are doing this workshop and why we're doing this virtual reality based simulation about teaching
Fengfeng Ke: And feel free to ask me questions or stop me if you have any about the content of the slide, I probably would not be able to see the chat very easily just because this full view but
Fengfeng Ke: My team, they're going to remind me. Okay, so like teaching, I guess if you are here, you're somehow interested in becoming in potential teacher will become and
Fengfeng Ke: Mentor or maybe a coach that invokes certain kind of communication that info transferring of the knowledge and fool me teaching actually is not my in the topic or maybe my interest 20 years ago.
Fengfeng Ke: I grew up in in math teacher family so because my mom. It's a very strict mess teacher and somehow I did not really get their passive disposition to work teaching and I swear I remember
Fengfeng Ke: Several decades ago. I told myself I would never become a teacher because I don't want to be like my mom. However,
Fengfeng Ke: I'm nervous. Murphy's Law. You know what happened in right now here as a teacher for more than I will say 14 years so far. So my teaching
Fengfeng Ke: I think a lot of people have a stereotype about a teacher and potentially think that we don't need to really do anything about teaching. If we are not a teachable faculty
Fengfeng Ke: However, from my perspective, after so many years of being a teacher and doing the teaching. I feel like teaching is actually a natural way.
Fengfeng Ke: To train yourself to have this part 21st century skills that we all talk about nowadays. And that involves critical thinking.
Fengfeng Ke: On being able to collaborate with the others, whether we are in person or across the distance in different kind of working setting.
Fengfeng Ke: And that means we have a better communication skill to either work with our clients work with our partners and potentially also work with some other individuals that we are not familiar with and possibly don't understand
Fengfeng Ke: And most important part that it's really creating a big need for creativity and that means we have to be in creative problem solver especially nowadays so
Fengfeng Ke: Teaching. It's actually a good way to try and our self was all this ques I remember a long time ago I read something about mosque.
Fengfeng Ke: And he said that if you don't know how to explain your content in one shot paragraph to the others, that doesn't mean that you really understand a fully understand what you know.
Fengfeng Ke: So being a content expert always means that you know how to do it and you will be able to demonstrate it to the work
Fengfeng Ke: But being a teacher is more than just a content expert in a teacher mins you also will be able to translate
Fengfeng Ke: externalize and representative better to the other word to the other people who possibly speaking totally different language. And that's why we Antoine ourself to be flexible in such kind of representation. And that's about teaching
Fengfeng Ke: Teaching also train ourselves to be self conscious self regulating and reflective and a lot of times we have to think back and say, what did I say
Fengfeng Ke: What did I tried to explain it doesn't really change for enough. And that's why we possibly need to we flag on and trying to think about what I really know about this specific topic.
Fengfeng Ke: And what is the most important and salient was structural characteristics about this domain that I really know and I can describe to the others. So only by reflecting on what we know.
Fengfeng Ke: How we describe it. How do we represent it to the other word, then we can really be able to understand how to better communicate and that reflective mindset. It's very critical for the coming 21st century talents and finally
Fengfeng Ke: Teaching is all about communicate with different people and different language in different setting, but different kind of problems.
Fengfeng Ke: So if you are a good teacher, then you definitely should know the art about better communicating and converging
Fengfeng Ke: Different perspective, different understanding and potentially have a rise above incentivizing on this.
Fengfeng Ke: In this world, we passed. We will not disagree or agree with everyone. But it's always better to be able to understand each other and know what we are talking about.
Fengfeng Ke: So this is why teaching and how teaching can help. Now back to the what the teaching is um
Fengfeng Ke: It's a sexual brought concept in such a kind of them. They're a moving target. And that's why it's always to the code to do in teaching workshop
Fengfeng Ke: Because teaching by nature involves a lot about the destination. It's adapting whatever we know I was structure of the knowledge based on different kind of settings different needs and different problems.
Fengfeng Ke: It's also trying to operationalize about how we can be a better self reflective teacher and learner and finally
Fengfeng Ke: Teaching. It's actually a big part of identity one I remember 10 years ago when I was interviewed for FSU and someone asked you, are you a researcher or are you a teacher.
Fengfeng Ke: For the first place. And my answer without any Heston's in either. I'm a researcher than a teacher. Well, after all this time as after going through all those kind of the experience with my career as in
Fengfeng Ke: Faculty, or maybe the researcher in FSU I will now call myself a teaching researcher. So in other words, is teaching and research actually happening. So integrating in my research and in my
Fengfeng Ke: Career that it's very difficult to tell that might be a better teacher and I better researcher and for me, I always believe that a strong researcher is always a good teacher.
Fengfeng Ke: And that's always demonstrated in a lot of respectable figures in his academic field so
Fengfeng Ke: That's setting up the tone for this project. And that's why we are designing and developing this mixed reality integrated learning system called mile
Fengfeng Ke: That hopefully will help move people who are interested in understanding what teaching can be and why teaching
Fengfeng Ke: To really have some hands on practice in a different way, or concrete experience in a different way about what teaching can be, um,
Fengfeng Ke: So in this environment, you're going to have different title roles and you're going to potentially acting as a trainee or example graduate teaching assistant
Fengfeng Ke: And who is going to interacting with a virtual clause in this virtual classroom. Of course, it means you have different
Fengfeng Ke: Virtual students who may have different profiles different needs and different actions or responses in facilitating
Fengfeng Ke: And prompting and potentially responding to teaching actions and of course you're going to have some expert acting as in the miserable facilitator will help you with this simulation based to Tim process and others.
Fengfeng Ke: Will be simulated in virtual what we call them open simulator which is a server side.
Fengfeng Ke: Open Source be off platform. So if you're interested in this platform for the future for yourself. We have department, you can actually host it in any kind of the service you can have and it's open source,
Fengfeng Ke: And I'll for this specific exercise we're going to do mostly collaborative role play so
Fengfeng Ke: make yourself feel relax and try to role play different kind of the characters in this human rap now real and potentially observe how you'll pairs of the others have been doing with teaching and interaction doing this situation.
Fengfeng Ke: So, um, we are going to targeting several kinds of skills here but depends on the breakout rooms we have we potentially going to cover the topic of teaching adaptive fully
Fengfeng Ke: Explaining for bit understanding and teaching you how to sculpt though the problem. So being on how to coach the others doing problem solving and
Fengfeng Ke: This will be just one of the scenario that has kind of
Fengfeng Ke: To do aiding and demonstrating those skills and we do have 16 to Napa was in this program. And so for the future, if you want to work with us individually, you're welcome to contact us and we can do individual
Fengfeng Ke: Simulation based mentoring was office teaching skills. So with that all said I want to just ask you to raise your hand if you have managed to install the Firestone VR, which is the virtual reality VR.
Fengfeng Ke: For your computer. If you don't, that's okay. We can do find some participation activity and remote control for you so you can still experience, but I would just want to make sure
Fengfeng Ke: We know how many of you really installed the milestone viewers so we can kind of do some balance. Balance.
Fengfeng Ke: Assigning you to different teacher. I mean, different breakout rooms. Before we show one of the video. So if you can, you can raise up your hands, your virtual hands in the chat room and my team is going to take care of that. So now let me just click on the introduction video
Fengfeng Ke: Alright, if you cannot hear. I think I have already shared the audio for my screen showing. But if you cannot hear me discipline.
Fengfeng Ke: I mean, if you cannot hear
Mile is a teaching, training project where we integrate immersive learning platforms including virtual reality and mixed reality to provide simulation based teaching practice opportunities for graduate teaching assistants.
Teaching is a complex problem solving task. It requires discipline specific knowledge as well as pedagogical knowledge and skills.
graduate teaching assistants GDS play a critical role in undergraduate education, especially in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields.
With mile. We provide GTS with the Situated Learning experience for acquiring pedagogical knowledge and skills through simulation based teaching practice in a variety of teaching contexts that resemble the real world GTA can participate in training individually or in groups.
Specifically we simulate lectures.
Fengfeng Ke: I'm soaking wet hear the voice or no for the screen sharing of this video.
Fengfeng Ke: I'm sorry. Sorry, I cannot hear you.
Luke West: Sorry, I can hear it on my end.
Luke West: But I noticed that when I was like on a different tab on my phone. I couldn't hear it. So maybe if anybody
Luke West: Is on a different tab. They can try switching
Luke West: Back and see if the audio is there.
Fengfeng Ke: Oh, okay. All right, that's
Zhaihuan Dai: A long year but the video is not showing me these OMA
And others.
Fengfeng Ke: You cannot see the video.
Fengfeng Ke: Leisha
Fengfeng Ke: Sorry about that.
Fengfeng Ke: Okay. Can you see my video showing now.
Fengfeng Ke: I'm not
Fengfeng Ke: Gonna happen.
Fengfeng Ke: Yeah.
Fengfeng Ke: Can you see my screen.
Fengfeng Ke: Okay, thank you so much.
Mile is a teaching, training project where we integrate immersive learning platforms including virtual reality and mixed reality to provide simulation based teaching practice opportunities for graduate teaching assistants.
Teaching is a complex problem solving task. It requires discipline specific knowledge as well as pedagogical knowledge and skills.
graduate teaching assistants GDS play a critical role in undergraduate education, especially in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields.
With mile. We provide GTS with the Situated Learning experience for acquiring pedagogical knowledge and skills through simulation based teaching practice in a variety of teaching contexts that resemble the real world GTA can participate in training individually or in groups.
Specifically we simulate lectures.
Recitation sections.
Office hours.
And labs.
In these teaching context GTA learn and practice handling diverse student needs teaching adaptive Lee explaining for better understanding teaching students to solve problems, managing the classroom and more
A featured element of this simulation based teaching practice in mile is the virtual students
These students have been carefully designed based on sophisticated student models and are integrated into the very teaching context to simulate authentic problems that GTS may encounter in teaching
Through interacting with virtual students and responding to their requests GTS are prompted to practice the targeted skills.
The simulation based teaching practice also incorporates other features the dialog boxes contain information such as pedagogical knowledge and teaching tips to guide and support the GTA is during training the interactive whiteboard allows GTS to provide annotations to enhance teaching
There are also other virtual objects that can be used to present or obtain information and facilitate teaching, such as no cards.
Posters
Media boards for web browsing.
And simulators.
With all these features we have found mile to have a significant impact on developing teaching skills for the GTA is based on the results of previous mile training sessions.
Finally, we also want to empower those who are educating teachers to push training further as they engage their GED as
To this end, we developed script generators for trainers to customize training activities to meet their specific needs in using the immersive simulation based teaching, training.
Throughout the design, development and implementation of mile we strive to create a scalable versatile and effective platform that makes best use of the educational ordinances of immersive virtual environments to provide quality teaching, training.
Fengfeng Ke: All right, that's an very brief introduction video about this specific
Fengfeng Ke: Platform. And what I'm going to do is just going to do a very quick transition to outbreak of room.
Fengfeng Ke: So for this agenda in the breakout rooms, you're into checking. So we're going to provide you with the login ID and password at zoom chat.
Fengfeng Ke: To log into the open some virtual if you have already installed the virtual world. But if you don't, don't worry about it. We also allow you to
Fengfeng Ke: Try our laptop so remote control in the zoom and you will be still able to kind of maneuver the avatars and be able to do the collaborative role play
Fengfeng Ke: Or if you don't want. You can also just sit there and have the show discussing and observe how the other people have been
Fengfeng Ke: Performing and conducting that teaching in the virtual world. So either way, you should be able to actively experience it.
Fengfeng Ke: Then we're going to give you some time to debrief on it and reflect on what you have done and what you have experienced and we have served
Fengfeng Ke: And then what potential invite you're coming back to the men's room room after one hour. So I think that's it for my introduction
Fengfeng Ke: And I think we have great 25 participants. Hello. We have maybe 10 or more than 13 or 14 have you here with a straight answer, which has been divided into two breakout rooms and
Fengfeng Ke: San Juan look to poo and I, we were going to just facilitate that to break comes for you.
Fengfeng Ke: All right. Shall we go ahead and start sending people to the breakout ones.