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Get Real! 10 Easy Ways to Integrate & Engage Your Students with Virtual Reality Today!

By: Ann Marie Carrier

Education Technology Specialist

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TYPES OF REALITY

Virtual Reality (VR)

immerses users in a fully artificial digital environment.

Augmented reality (AR) overlays digital objects on the real-world physical environment.

Mixed reality (MR) overlays AND anchors virtual objects to the real world and allows the user to interact with the digital objects.

Cross Reality (XR) the research and combined application of all 3 broadfield AR/VR/MR technologies

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WHY VIRTUAL REALITY?

Increases Engagement & Motivation to Learn
Exposes Students to New Places!
Makes Content Relative!
Show not Tell!
Expands the Students Perspective & Understanding of the World Around Them
Viewable from any Internet Ready Device!

Why VR is the Perfect Educational Tool

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Discovery VR, Google Expeditions & YouTube 360

360 Degree Experience - Guided & Narrated Video!

Video Content is Already Generated!
Use when detailed explanations along with Visualization is needed to build & extend content!
Thousands of Locations, Content Topics & Experiences
Recommended in Small Group Rotations or Individual

Guided Visualization Activity Sheet - OR -
Guided Q&A during Video

Use App when available.

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NEARPOD VIRTUAL FIELD TRIPS & SITES IN VR

360 Degree Experience - Takes you Wherever you Want to Go!

When Only Still Images for Visualization are Needed
No Audio
Hundreds of Locations Worldwide!

Search by City or Country
Nature, Space, Museums, etc.
360 Cities.net

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OTHER REALLY COOL VR TOOLS...

USA Today VR Stories App CNN VR

NY Times VR App BBC 360 Videos

National Geographic VR App Life VR App

Within App - A VR Experience VeeR VR App

Thinglink VR Jaunt VR App

Lifeliqe - Example Unimersiv (Android)

Just Search VR in Play Store, App Store, Google or YouTube!

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PURPOSE & INTENT OF VR

How to Decide

Content Standard or Goal

What do they need to learn?
Why do you want to use it?
What will Students Do with this Information or Experience? Interaction?

Appropriate App - Functions & Amount of Info
Appropriate Delivery Method & Device Availability

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#10: RELIVE HISTORICAL PERIODS & EVENTS

Travel Back to the Civil War
American Revolution Reenactments
First Steps on the Moon!
The Birth & Death of a Star
Great American Solar Eclipse
Bombing of Pearl Harbour
Travel to Ancient Civilizations

bit.ly/ARVREX

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#9: BUILD PERSPECTIVE & EMPATHY IN OTHERS

Create Situational Learning Experiences your Students will NEVER forget!

Help students to identify with someone else’s experience.
Teach new perspectives & critical thinking on current topics.
What would it be like to be homeless? Blind?
To live in a dessert, third world country or hungry in Ethiopia?

bit.ly/CCHINVR

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#8: CREATE A PREVIEW TO RELATED CONTENT

Create engagement about upcoming topics & places being studied.
Set the scene for a historical unit, event or time period.
Create a prediction activity & challenge students to discover what they are learning about next!
Help students to see when and where their next novel is taking place!

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#7: PROVIDE VIRTUAL MODELS of things UNSEEN

EON AVR APPS

Visualizing Distant Objects or Small/Internal parts
Virtual Dissections
See Inside the Human Body!
Enhance STEM lessons
Construct & Deconstruct Objects in 3D
The Solar System, Planets & Entire Constellations

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#6: DEMONSTRATE CAUSE & EFFECT

Help students to see changes to structures, architecture, and the environment over time!
Show Deforestation of the Amazon
The Effects of Noise Pollution & Global Warming
Threats to the Grand Canyon & Navajo Nation
Evolution of Organisms on The Galapagos Islands
Coral Bleaching on Historic Reefs
Erosion of the Mayan Ruins

http://bit.ly/VRCCFWI

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#5: VISUALIZE LANDFORMS, ECOLOGICAL FEATURES & ORGANISMS from AROUND THE WORLD!

bit.ly/VRABIDE

Compare & Contrast Landforms & Geographic Regions
Identify Organisms from Various Ecosystems & Biomes
Teach Interdependence Visually!
Fossils, Cave Structures & How they are formed!
World Crops & Local Exports

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#4: CONNECT & ENGAGE with CURRENT EVENTS

Help make world news come to life!
Political Rallies & Current Election Topics- Review, Discuss & Debate - CNN
Eruption of Kilauea in Hawaii - YouTube 360
Rebuilding Puerto Rico’s Power Grid
Gun Violence Protests - Where do you stand?
Devastation from Hurricane Dorian
Foster Real World Engagement & Class Discussions with Impact!

http://bit.ly/VRLVE

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#3: REINFORCE CONTENT WITH 360⁰ IMAGES or VIDEO

Video Content is Guided & Narrated
Examine & Identify Styles of Art at the Louvre!
Explore Egyptian History & Hieroglyphics at Tutankhamun
Replace boring old video clips with one they will never forget!

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#2: SPUR CREATIVE WRITING TOPICS

Turn Writer’s Block into Writer’s Wow!

Provide Visualization to Places Never Imagined!
Give Students a Setting for their next Adventure!
Create Visual Scenarios for Problem Based Learning & Creative Writing
Get them out of their heads & into the world around them!

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#1: VIRTUAL FIELD TRIPS

Take Students to Places they Never Dreamed
See Nuclear Power Technologies & other Places inaccessible to Travel
Travel to distant Museums, Ancient Pyramids & Inside the White House!
Travel to the Crystal Reef in Italy
See the Seven Wonders of the World & other possibilities around us!

Explore this List of VR Field Trips!

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VIRTUAL REALITY IN THE CLASSROOM

SUGGESTIONS FOR IMPLEMENTATION

Embed in a Larger Activity or Lesson
Make device fit the activity! Make Video Content 1:1
Provide Cues/Questions to Guide Experience
Use as a Point of View Activity
Relevant Tasks…

Identify, Observe, Locate, Consider,
Use App when available.

REVISIT this PADLET for other IDEAS!

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DIGITAL EXTENSIONS

●Have students do a video news report of their field trip experience using FLIPGRID or SEESAW!

●Have Students Create a Digital Brochure using ADOBE SPARK or Infographic using CANVA!

●Have students research your topic & create their own HYPERDOC to share with the class!

●Have students make a quick & easy video about what they learned using ADOBE SPARK VIDEO

●Have Students Complete an I See/Think/Wonder Reflection or other VISIBLE THINKING ACTIVITY

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TIPS & TRICKS for VR SUCCESS!

Give students time to explore VR before first implementation for content -*Review in whole group before using in class!
Establish rules & procedures for VR activities up front!
Test VR lesson on actual device in teaching location using available WiFi before class.
Allow time for downloads & assistance from others while preparing activity up front. Be patient - Technology is finicky!
Set up Activity link/access BEFORE class (shortcut/bit.ly/QR code)
Always have a PLAN B in place - just in case!