Kaupunkiympäristössä maantiedettä opiskelemassa: opettajaopiskelijoiden kokemuksia teknologia-avusteisesta ulko-opetuksesta

Studying geography in an urban environment: student teachers' learning experiences with technology-assisted outdoor education

Abstrakti

Technology-assisted outdoor education refers to activities in authentic environments where digital technology and media support learning, even without the teacher's physical presence. In this study, used the Seppo platform to implement technology-assisted outdoor education for primary school teacher students in a geography pedagogy course. Seppo enables teachers to create learning assignments on GPS-based maps and the assignments open when students reach specific locations. In the course, students independently completed geography research tasks in an urban environment. The aim of the study was to investigate teacher students´ learning experiences with technology-assisted outdoor education. The study is qualitative case study and data was collected through open-ended questions after the outdoor education and by using the students' learning assignments. The data analysis method was content analysis. The results indicate that technology-assisted outdoor education enhanced students' technological pedagogical content knowledge, especially content knowledge, pedagogical content knowledge, and technological content knowledge in geography education field. Technology-assisted outdoor education diversifies geography teaching and offers a way to organize outdoor education within the limited time resources of universities.