Harassment at school, stimulating debate with virtual reality (VR)!
The immersive features of VR headsets provide an ideal environment for teaching students empathy in a world of plural cultures and personalities.
From November to April 2023, Roland Toullec, our project manager, proposed to 2 4th grade students working on a project to raise awareness of harassment, to use our explorations360 platform to build their film. The viewer thus becomes a witness to a virtual experience of harassment, helping to better understand the emotions and negative consequences associated with these situations.
Feeling emotions
We know that VR headsets headsets put more strain on the right brain, which is more visual and intuitive. It generates a more creative and less organized way of thinking and acting. It allows you to feel other people's emotions, and to empathize.
By experiencing these emotions in an immersive way, students can develop empathy for victims of harassment.
A 360° teaching kit to raise awareness of harassment?
What if this first "hands-on" experience, carried out in Saint-Brieuc as a proof of concept, accompanying students at Collège Saint-Yves La Salle, was the first brick in a vast library of immersive content designed for all types of educational outreach?
PicoXR pedagogical headsets cases
Why not go one step further and ask students from other secondary schools to create their own resources? It would be a simple matter to roll out a "harassment teaching kit" for creating 360° content, enabling students to record their own 360° videos or 360° images.
Test the consequences of your actions!
Thanks to the explorations360 platform and the experience of our teamswe can create immersive questionnaires, and propose different situations and reactions whose consequences can be tested.
This interactive approach promotes active learning and encourages students to think about different ways of resolving conflicts and promoting a respectful school environment. The fight against bullying at school cannot rest solely on the shoulders of students and teachers.
Distribute widely
It's essential to involve as many people as possible in this process. Virtual reality can be an invaluable tool for raising awareness among all key players and helping them to better understand students' experiences.
What to do about bullying?
Senate information report of September 22, 2021
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Report summary (296 Kbytes)
- FOREWORD
- I. A COMPLEX, PROTEAN PHENOMENON THAT GOES BEYOND "TRADITIONAL" VIOLENCE ALONE
- A. HARASSMENT GOES FAR BEYOND "CHILDISH BICKERING
- B. RECOGNITION OF "HARASSMENT IN THE SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT" HAS ONLY EXISTED FOR 10 YEARS IN FRANCE
- C. THE PHENOMENON IS NOW WIDESPREAD
- II. A DEBATE THAT HAS BEEN LARGELY RENEWED BY CYBERBULLYING
- A. CYBERBULLYING SERIOUSLY DISRUPTS THE SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT, EVEN IF IT ESCAPES QUICKLY
- B. ISSUES SPECIFIC TO CYBERSTALKING THAT ARE DIFFICULT TO RESOLVE
- III. AN EXPANDED LEGAL FRAMEWORK THAT NOW RAISES THE QUESTION OF ITS APPLICATION BY THE ENTIRE EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY
- A. THE FIGHT AGAINST BULLYING AT SCHOOL IS NOW FULLY RECOGNIZED BY THE LEGISLATOR AND WIDELY SUPPORTED
- B. A PUBLIC POLICY THAT IS STILL INSUFFICIENTLY MANAGED
- IV. A COMPLEX, GLOBAL PHENOMENON REQUIRING THE INVOLVEMENT OF SOCIETY AS A WHOLE
- A. COLLECTIVE ACTION TO STRENGTHEN HARASSMENT PREVENTION
- 1. How to measure
- 2. Collectively building a school climate that prevents harassment
- 3. Enable every student to know his or her rights and duties
- 4. Develop social networking skills rather than know-how
- 5. Reinforce operators' and platforms' obligations to prevent harassment
- 6. Pay particular attention to awareness-raising from primary school onwards
- B. RECOGNIZING HARASSMENT EARLY
- C. DEAL SYSTEMATICALLY AND PROMPTLY WITH CASES OF HARASSMENT AS SOON AS THEY ARISE
- 1. What to do in the event of harassment
- 2. Better care for victims of bullying and cyberbullying
- 3. Soothe and help the victim, explain but also punish the perpetrator, support the group
- 4. Winning the race against time on social networks in the event of cyberbullying
- 5. From 2022/2023, make the fight against harassment and cyberbullying in schools a major national cause.
- A. COLLECTIVE ACTION TO STRENGTHEN HARASSMENT PREVENTION
- I. A COMPLEX, PROTEAN PHENOMENON THAT GOES BEYOND "TRADITIONAL" VIOLENCE ALONE
- APPENDICES LIST OF 35 RECOMMENDATIONS
SORTED BY FOCUS AND CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER OF IMPLEMENTATION - LIST OF INTERVIEWEES
- LIST OF TRIPS
- THE MISSION'S WORK
- CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE POLITICAL GROUPS
Deployment on our PicoXR headsets cases
My first brand, subOceana, was born in a metaverse, in 2007... I often hear people refer to me as a specialist, a creative technologist, an alumnus, a gamer, a visionary, a geek, a CEO, a CTO...
I've never really liked labels! Every community has its own language, every profession its own jargon. Depending on the world in which you evolve or the people you meet, what makes sense in one case can be completely ridiculous in another.
What I really like: learning, sharing, spending hours on technological brakes, diverting tools from their primary functions, innovating* in use to ultimately make life easier for users. You know, a bit like when you spend time cooking a complicated dish, with the pleasure of simplicity and conviviality in mind. A customer (ours are professionals) who can easily appropriate technology, and in this case virtual reality in particular, will use it to enhance their ability to create, train, communicate, share and inspire their own audience.
And I can't wait to discover your worlds!
*Innovating: talking 6 months before others about things... that we've been doing for 10 years to general indifference, sometimes tinged with a little mockery 😉
