Five Victorian Frogs: An Immersive Learning Experience (ILE)

https://hdl.handle.net/10779/DRO/DU:30302056

educational resource

posted on 2025-10-09, 05:20 authored by Toija CinqueToija Cinque, Peta White

Five Victorian Frogs: An Immersive Learning Experience (ILE)<p></p>

History

Location

Wasa Futures Festival, Wasa Innovation Center (Finland)

Language

English

Notes

As part of the Butterfly educational programme, visitors aged five to ninety-five are invited to engage with the natural world through a guided exploration of the exhibition and the Five Victorian Frogs Immersive Learning Experience (ILE). This interactive AR installation brings five of Victoria’s endemic frog species to life—each a vital bio-indicator of environmental change. Following the experience, participants take part in a reflective discussion on ecological butterfly effects, climate change, and species interdependence. The session concludes with a short survey, encouraging critical thinking and personal connection to environmental futures. Designed to inspire curiosity, care, and climate consciousness, this learning experience blends digital media, scientific insight, and playful inquiry.

Extent

1x Immersive Media Art 1x AR Interactive Learning Experience 1x Digital Video 5x Colouring Activation Sheets

Editor/Contributor(s)

White P

Start date

2025-08-12

End date

2025-08-30

Research statement

Background Five Victorian Frogs: An Immersive Learning Experience (ILE) is a practice-based investigation at the intersection of digital medi-art, environmental humanities, science education, and communication. Using augmented reality to reanimate five Victorian frog species as bio-indicators of ecosystem health, it asks: how can immersive media foster ecological literacy and emotional connection to species at risk? Developed with scientists, the work transforms real science into participatory experience, translating knowledge into empathy and environmental awareness. Contribution Five Victorian Frogs: An Immersive Learning Experience (ILE) contributes new knowledge by integrating digital art and science education as communication to enhance ecological literacy through immersive media. Using augmented reality to reanimate five endangered Victorian frog species, the work transforms real scientific data into participatory experience, developed in collaboration with scientists. It innovates by bridging creative practice as communication with environmental education, demonstrating how digital media-art can reconceptualise scientific communication and foster empathy and awareness toward fragile ecosystems. Significance Five Victorian Frogs: An Immersive Learning Experience (ILE) advances the application of immersive digital media within science communication and environmental education. Presented internationally in Butterfly: Glo-cal Effects of Data, Energy, and Industry (Wasa Futures Festival, Finland, 2025), the work demonstrates recognised standing through interdisciplinary collaboration between educators and scientists. Its significance lies in pioneering the use of augmented reality to translate ecological research into affective public experience, contributing to international discourse on immersive learning, eco-digital media, and environmental humanities.

Recognition, awards & prizes

While Five Victorian Frogs: An Immersive Learning Experience (ILE) has not yet received formal awards, its significance is evidenced through support from Quivervision and its presentation within the international exhibition Butterfly: Glo-cal Effects of Data, Energy, and Industry (Wasa Futures Festival, Finland, 2025). The exhibition was attended by Finland’s Minister of Education Anders Adlercreutz and Chairman of the Vaasa City Council Frans Villanen, reflecting the project’s cultural and institutional recognition. The Butterfly Effect shows us how small changes can lead to big impacts. Just like a butterfly flapping its wings might shift the weather far away, our everyday actions—good or bad—can ripple through the environment. The Butterfly Effect is, however, often misunderstood as a symbol of chaos—but meteorologist Edward Lorenz meant something deeper. He showed that within seeming disorder, there are patterns—and that small changes can lead to new, predictable futures if we pay

Event

Butterfly: Glo-cal Effects of Data, Energy, and Industry

Publisher

Deakin University and QuiverVision

Place of publication

Finland

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Keywords

Augmented Reality (AR)Digital Art Digital Media Ecological Awareness Environmental Education Immersive Learning Science Communication 470102 Communication technology and digital media studies 470103 Environmental communication 390105 Environmental education curriculum and pedagogy 280109 Expanding knowledge in education 280122 Expanding knowledge in creative arts and writing studies 280111 Expanding knowledge in the environmental sciences