119 - Bryan Brown: Virtual Reality for Science Education
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Anjie chats with Dr. Bryan Brown. Bryan is a professor of teacher education at the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University. His research interest explores the relationship between student identity, discourse, classroom culture, and academic achievement in science education. In this episode, we chat about his recent work on adopting VR – Virtual Reality in the classroom. The title of the paper we discuss is Teaching culturally relevant science in virtual reality: “when a problem comes, you can solve it with science”. Bryan shares his insights on how VR could be a valuable tool to science education. He also talks about how he became interested in this topic.  If you found this episode interesting at all, subscribe on our Substack and consider leaving us a good rating! It just takes a second but will allow us to reach more people and make them excited about psychology. Bryan’s paper: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1046560X.2020.1778248 Bryan’s personal profile: https://profiles.stanford.edu/bryan-brown Anjie’s: website: anjiecao.github.io Anjie’s Twitter @anjie_cao Podcast Twitter @StanfordPsyPod Podcast Substack https://stanfordpsypod.substack.com/ Let us know what you thought of this episode, or of the podcast! :) [email protected]
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