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Dustin Anderson

EDUC2013 Intro To K-12 Tech

Professor Jill Sandlin

27 October 2023

Virtual Field Trip.

I would take my students on a virtual tour through the Google website of the British

Museum of Art, which is located in London, United Kingdom. This is primarily due to my

primary focus on art and its history in that sense, as well as the fact that I feel having students

investigate and understand what they're viewing in a digital learning space is very important. The

British Museum offers a layered view of its own building and individual pieces, all located on

the Google Culture website, providing a well-learned and well-versed way of viewing the

products in actual historical pieces. In a way that is engaging for the students as well as also

organized for the teachers. The primary advantage I see with virtual field trips is that it prevents

the teachers from having to spend an exorbitant amount of hundreds of dollars. On a trip that

may not even have that many students that are going to go, and in the case of the one that I

chose, it will also prevent students from having to get their passports and having a parent go with

them across the oceans.

However, there is a major disadvantage in the fact that students won't always want to do

these virtual trips as it doesn't actually allow them to have the physical interaction with the

environment, which does take out a sense of understanding of the historical view. Another

disadvantage is the fact that teachers will have to spend exorbitant amount of hours trying to find
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ones that work with their class as well as also working with that of what they are teaching at that

time.

Found in this sentence will be the link that I used to find the information about the British

Museum's virtual tour. https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/the-british-museum