After reading several articles and watching videos on students using Virtual Reality in the classroom, I feel it could and should be used more to enhance the students learning experiences. The possibilities seem endless and can be used for students of all grades. However, I think like the technology will grow old. We purchased one of these devices around Christmas time a few years ago, as it turned out we used it for Christmas and had fun exploring placing we have never been, like Cuba for example, it showed the poverty of the island and the lack of infrastructure that exists there with garbage all over the place for example. I think if its overused kids will grow bored of the technology and it will have less of an impact on their overall learning. Some of the examples I thought were notable were students studying underwater environments, and another I found on you tube showed students who were reading Romeo and Juliet, students were able to view the place where Romeo an
With twitter, it can get very "noisy", too many people, too many people posting too much irrelevant stuff. The key is really to find just the people who are posting information that is relevant to your interests. That's where all that hashtag stuff comes in so handy. For me, I often check the #tlchat hashtag, which if for teacher-librarians. I know that I'll always find some new ideas and tools by checking that. I just shared the #iteachmath hashtag with some of our math teacher participants. #creditrecovery teacher might be a place to look? Here's a link: https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&q=%23creditrecovery%20teacher&src=typd
ReplyDeletethanks I will try that!
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