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An introduction to the Socially Responsible Behaviour through Embodied Thinking (SORBET) Project as a response to COVID-19
Citation
Lim, K. Y. T., Leong, S. L., & Ahmed Hazyl Hilmy. (2020). An introduction to the Socially Responsible Behaviour through Embodied Thinking (SORBET) Project as a response to COVID-19. In H.-J. So, M. M. Rodrigo, J. Mason, & A. Mitrovic (Eds.), Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE) 2020 (Vol. 2, pp. 1-6). Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education (APSCE). https://apsce.net/icce/icce2020/proceedings/W1-13/W1/ICCE2020-Proceedings-Vol2-1.pdf
Abstract
This paper describes an intervention piloted in secondary schools in Singapore in the second half of 2020, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The intervention aims to afford learners more authentic understandings of the need to invest effort and self-discipline in nurturing the new habit of practicing safe-distancing, beyond just doing so because of public exhortation. It seeks to achieve this objective through two complementary halves, the first being an activity within a virtual environment during which a (virtual) virus is diffusing, and the second being dialogue and discussion around students’ decision-making and behaviours, as informed from an analysis of data of interaction from the first half, via a web-based interface. In this way, the Socially Responsible Behaviour through Embodied Thinking (SORBET) Project represents not only an intervention designed to meet the challenges to learning imposed by COVID-19, but also one of the current few which attempt to do so by leveraging students’ evolving conceptions about the diffusion of a virus amongst a population. Understood thusly, the intervention has potential curricular applications in a number of disciplinary domains, such as in mathematics, geography, biology and citizenship education.
Date Issued
2020
ISBN
9789869721462