Immersive technologies such as virtual reality should reinforce, not substitute, the original educational action¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · review r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 2024 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Technologies like virtual reality should be seen as a reinforcement, not a substitute, for the original educational action, strengthening the situated dimension. → Vargas 2024

Evidence¶

Vargas 2024¶

Vargas, E. G., Chiappe, A., & Durand, J. (2024). Reshaping education in the era of artificial intelligence: insights from Situated Learning related literature. Journal of Social Studies Education Research. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1445872

q2 · i? · review · r2

Discussion-level interpretation (attributed by the review to Hamilton et al., 2021) that "technologies like 'virtual reality' should be seen as a reinforcement, not a substitute for the original educational action", linked to the notion of augmented education enriching the situated dimension.

"technologies like 'virtual reality' should be seen as a reinforcement, not a substitute for the original educational action"

Studies bearing on this claim¶

Should a simulation or virtual-reality module sit beside hands-on practice or replace it? This table gathers the studies behind this claim and the 8 narrower claims that bear on it: 7 distinct studies (3 review, 3 causal, 1 qualitative), q1–q3, 1 of 7 with an effect size coded. One row per study, codes as each entry records them; no effect is averaged and no verdict is drawn. Built by scripts/synthesize_claim.py from eval/synthesis/; a row that looks wrong is fixed on the claim it comes from.

Discussion¶

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