One local school is using virtual reality technology to immerse students in a learning experience unlike a lot of others.
“I’m more of a visual learner,” said Ivan Reynolds, a 10th grader who spoke to RochesterFirst. “Being able to see the cells, and see how they work, the details of them is very helpful.”
Around a year ago the school got two dozen VR headsets. Director of Instructional Technology Chip Dolce says it’s a huge leap for education in a public school.
The headsets are paired with Google software that allows students to visually ‘tour’ different places in an 360-degree immersive way.
The goggles are shared throughout the school for a wide variety of subjects, according to RochesterFirst. They can go ‘inside’ the human brain to see how neurons work, or see a historical site overseas.
The only challenge so far, is contending with a little motion sickness for some students. But, that has mostly been addressed by having students with those challenges use the goggles while sitting down.
In Mr. Scheramie’s class, these kids are *locked* in. They’re using #virtualreality goggles at #PalMac to explore the human nervous system. @News_8 https://t.co/SsUkWLPtq7 pic.twitter.com/JhPuFZXnpD
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