It’s not a bad idea to educate students via a VR game.

In Poland’s Poznań, a few teachers found a clever way to come through the obstacles that the coronavirus global pandemic have raised for them, UploadVR reports. In Poland, the schools were forced to move to online education on March 25, and five days later, the first of the six online seminars that were two hours long, was made available to Szkola 33’s students via social media.

This is for an English class, with the goal to teach the children vocabulary to find items you can expect in a flat. The teacher utilises the markers in Half-Life: Alyx to write on the windows and highlight the words that are deemed important.

„We decided to use VR in lessons because it seemed like a good opportunity to try something new and to engage our students in online classes. The pandemic had just started back then, the schools were closed, and we wanted to interest our students in the classes somehow. We also hoped that it would help them with the uncomfortable situation everyone found themselves in – those first few weeks were not easy for kids, being on lockdown in their homes and not able to roam freely.

We do have plans for future classes made using VR, but their amount and the number of students involved will depend on the pandemic situation after the summer holidays. We hope to be back at school in September, and if it all works out, we plan to have regular classes, at school, using the VR technology. Preferably, all kids will be able to take such a class at least once a week, but that depends on the situation around us, too,” teacher Katarzyna Sut told UploadVR.

This project was a collaboration between Szkola 33 and OFFshot, a local media company. They helped integrate educational functionality into Valve’s game. „VR is the future of creation. Projects like ours show that VR can be introduced more widely into universal teaching,” OFFshot’s Adrian Michalski told UploadVR. „We can use VR to take [the students] on virtual tours to another country, to another planet – the sky is the limit here. The cognitive process becomes more natural, as opposed to just reading about things in books. VR looks very promising. We are very optimistic about it right now,” Sut added.

And we can’t disagree with that.

Source: VG247

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