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VR Hardware for Education
VR gaming systems use two handheld controllers, each with multiple inputs: thumbsticks, triggers, grip buttons, and several face buttons. Together, the two controllers provide a large number of controls designed to give gamers precise and flexible interaction. That makes sense for gaming.
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Virtual Reality in Education
Virtual reality is often discussed in terms of headset prices, software costs and the quality of the experience. But when VR is proposed as infrastructure for a school, university, company or other organization, there is another question that deserves serious consideration:
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VR Privacy, Safety & Student Data
Technology companies have policies. • Policies about privacy. • Policies about children. • Policies about inappropriate content. • Policies about advertising. • Policies about data. Policies matter.
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Virtual Reality in Education
Sorry. I’m Canadian, so I’m sure you expected nothing less. But this apology is sincere. In 2016, I was a typical skeptical teacher. I could see that virtual reality offered something different, but I did not yet understand what that something really was.
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Virtual Reality in Education
Virtual reality is no longer, “Can it help people learn?” Research has found positive effects on learning outcomes, particularly where learners need to practise procedures, understand spatial or complex concepts, experience contexts otherwise inaccessible, or rehearse safely.
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VR Hardware for Education
New research asks an important question: what actually makes virtual reality effective for learning? More processing power. More cameras. More tracking. More sensors. More interaction. More gamification. More feedback. More features. But education should be asking a different question:
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Virtual Reality in Education
Speaking is one of the most difficult parts of learning another language. A student may recognize vocabulary, understand grammar and perform well on a written test, yet still hesitate when asked to speak.
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Virtual Reality in Education
The people who first saw VR's promise in the classroom were not the problem. But asking every school to recreate their exceptional effort may be. Every meaningful education technology has had its champions: the teacher who sees its potential before anyone else does.
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Virtual Reality in Education
Every school has a Mrs. Applebaum. She may teach Grade 5, high-school English, or a mixed class of students who need a little more time and care than the system usually allows. She is in her sixties, has been teaching for 35 years, knows her students well, and wants the very best for them.
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Virtual Reality in Education
AI is already changing education. It can help teams write, translate, generate voices, organize information, and make production faster. At Sensible-VR, we use it that way.
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Immersive Learning
Some of our greatest anxiety comes not from what is happening, but from not knowing what is about to happen.
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Immersive Learning
When VR enters a corporation, the organization is choosing more than specifications There is an important conversation happening around technology, privacy, data collection and the responsibilities of technology companies.
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Virtual Reality in Education
Mobile device management for VR is usually presented as an advantage. I see it differently. In many education deployments, the need for MDM is a tacit admission that the headset and the proposed “solution” cannot independently handle their most important responsibility: manage content.
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Virtual Reality in Education
What does it mean to “future-proof” a student? It cannot mean teaching students to use today’s newest technology. Technologies change too quickly. Devices are replaced, platforms disappear and the AI tool attracting attention today may be overtaken tomorrow.
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VR Cost, TCO & Scalability
A cautionary tale about gift horses, open-source software and gaming hardware. Tell a twelve-year-old girl that someone is giving her a horse for free and you may see pure excitement. Tell her parents, and they will probably begin asking questions.
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VR Cost, TCO & Scalability
Asking “How much is the headset?” is like judging a school by the price of its front door. The headset is only the doorway. What matters is where it leads: meaningful learning, student privacy, classroom simplicity, useful content and sustainable cost.
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Virtual Reality in Education
Host Shannon Putman welcomes Dave Dolan for a conversation about practical immersive learning and classroom implementation.
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Virtual Reality in Education
Shannon Putman and Dave Dolan discuss degrees of freedom value privacy and practical classroom use.
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