Orman yangını sonrası çevre ve ekoloji konulu 360o videolar ile oluşturulmuş sanal saha gezisi ve gerçek saha gezisine dair öğrenci görüşlerinin belirlenmesi

Year 2025, Volume: 18 Issue: 3, 364 - 371

Tülin Günver Tahir Atıcı

https://doi.org/10.46309/biodicon.2025.1621315

Abstract

Environmental pollution, which has reached global dimensions, brings the importance of environmental education to the agenda nowadays. One of the current environmental problems, especially caused by lack of awareness and education, is forest fires. The deficiencies in environmental education lie at the root of fires that cause irreversible damage to biodiversity and nature. In this context, effective and efficient environmental education becomes important. One of the important components of an effective environmental education that includes much more than transferring information is field trips. Field trips that allow observing events and facts in their natural environment and collecting information first hand cannot be carried out due to the burden of procedures such as permission, time and financial inadequacies. This situation encourages the use of virtual field trips, which have become widespread with the effect of developing technology in recent years, in education. Virtual field trips carried out in the comfort of the classroom increase interest, motivation and focus, and positively affect student success, attitudes and behaviors. In this study, it was aimed to determine the student views after a real field trip and a virtual field trip created by the researcher with 360° videos in order to raise awareness by observing the destruction in the area after a forest fire, which is one of the current environmental problems.
The study group of the qualitatively designed study consists of 30 students studying in the tenth grade of a state school. The virtual field trip to the area after the forest fire in the Marmaris Icmeler Region was applied to the students who formed the study group with VR glasses. A real field trip was carried out with the same group after the forest fire in the Bolu Göynük district. The students' opinions about the virtual field trip and the real field trip were obtained with semi-structured interview forms and the opinions were explained with a finite analysis.

Keywords

Orman Yangını , 360o Video , Çevre , Ekoloji

High school students' opinions on real and virtual field trips after forest fire were formed with 360o videos on environment and ecology

Abstract

Environmental pollution, which has reached global dimensions, brings the importance of environmental education to the agenda nowadays. One of the current environmental problems, especially caused by lack of awareness and education, is forest fires. The deficiencies in environmental education lie at the root of fires that cause irreversible damage to biodiversity and nature. In this context, effective and efficient environmental education becomes important. One of the important components of an effective environmental education that includes much more than transferring information is field trips. Field trips that allow observing events and facts in their natural environment and collecting information first hand cannot be carried out due to the burden of procedures such as permission, time and financial inadequacies. This situation encourages the use of virtual field trips, which have become widespread with the effect of developing technology in recent years, in education. Virtual field trips carried out in the comfort of the classroom increase interest, motivation and focus, and positively affect student success, attitudes and behaviors. In this study, it was aimed to determine the student views after a real field trip and a virtual field trip created by the researcher with 360° videos in order to raise awareness by observing the destruction in the area after a forest fire, which is one of the current environmental problems.
The study group of the qualitatively designed study consists of 30 students studying in the tenth grade of a state school. The virtual field trip to the area after the forest fire in the Marmaris Icmeler Region was applied to the students who formed the study group with VR glasses. A real field trip was carried out with the same group after the forest fire in the Bolu Göynük district. The students' opinions about the virtual field trip and the real field trip were obtained with semi-structured interview forms and the opinions were explained with a finite analysis.

Keywords

Forest Fire , 360o Videos , Environment , Ecology

Ethical Statement

Conflicts of interest: No Conflict of Interest Funding: No Funding Received Ethical statement: The study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Gazi University (Approval No. 2024-488) Author contributions: All authors contributed to the study conception and design. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. This study was presented as an oral presentation at the conference titled ‘Elegans International Scientific Conference Series, First International Conference on Life Science’ and its abstract was published in the conference book.

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