Subject Empathy aims to raise awareness about the problem of bullying in the classroom and reduce it by involving students in the resolution of the problem. Thanks to the immersive experience and using the Gear VR, a greater degree of awareness and empathy with the pain of the victim is achieved., Group action is encouraged and a change of attitude is promoted.

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Coinciding with the celebration of the fair Classroom 2017, which is being held until Sunday at Ifema, Samsung and the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport (MECD) have presented the project Asignatura Empathy, Developed within the framework of a collaboration agreement between both entities to fight against bullying.

The first action of this project has been the production of a virtual reality video that recreates a case of cyberbullying among adolescents in an educational center and its resolution by the students themselves. The video integrates the real and digital worlds, following language codes with which young people feel identified.

Subject Empathy aims to raise awareness about the problem of bullying in the classroom and reduce it by involving students in the resolution of the problem. Thanks to the immersive experience in virtual reality with Samsung Gear VR, a greater degree of awareness and empathy with the pain of the victim is achieved, Group action is encouraged and a change of attitude is promoted.

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The piece, Shot using virtual reality technology, shows a case of bullying where it is reflected that both the problem and the solution arise from the group of children themselves. Its purpose is to raise awareness among viewers since, according to studies carried out, The learning process that occurs through a visualization in virtual reality is of a 90 %, in front of a 5 % that is achieved only with reading.

The story is told from the point of view of one of the students, Witness to harassment of another colleague, and includes elements familiar to teens such as their avatars and nicknames on social networks. Through the narrative it is shown that the secret against bullying is in the group. In addition, technology, far from being a harmful tool because of the misuse made of it by harassers, It becomes an ally to end this type of behavior.

This video that has been presented in Aula is the starting point of a study that will measure the degree of awareness about bullying, that will be carried out among a thousand students of 1st of Secondary Education from March to June of this year.

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Cyberbullying

On the other hand, within its corporate citizenship program, Samsung develops an awareness plan on cyberbullying in collaboration with the CNIIE (National Center for Educational Innovation and Research).

The objective of this collaboration is to build spaces of respectful coexistence between students in schools and institutes, Building on successful role models in the Nordic countries, that take into account not only the victim and the harasser, but also to the other comrades who participate as spectators in the aggression, as well as the potential of technology for children's personal development.


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by • 3 sea, 2017
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