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.
Bryan’s paper: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1046560X.2020.1778248
Bryan’s personal profile: https://profiles.stanford.edu/bryan-brown
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119 - Bryan Brown: Virtual Reality for Science Education