“What can virtual reality, the technology that arguably takes the viewer farthest away from the tangible world, teach students about expressing themselves and interacting with each other?
Two experiments at two very different California schools [San Jose’s Alpha Public School and The Synapse School in Palo Alto] aimed to find out.
The members believe that “social and emotional learning (SEL) in its current state doesn’t engender real feelings in students because it isn’t immersive.
Often, SEL exercises involve students role-playing in pre-set scenarios that lack verisimilitude or immediacy.
It is difficult to imagine a teenager volunteering to participate in such a stilted interaction.
That’s where virtual reality and its accoutrement come in.”
By Blake Montgomery at EdSurge
Photo by Versatile
