4 Ways VR Education Can Help Students
1. Students learn better through experience
Learning through experience can boost knowledge retention by up to 75%. Increase your students’ ability to retain knowledge by immersing them into exciting experiences. Take them on virtual schools trips that would not be possible or practical, go under the ocean, visit the other side of the world, or inside the human body. The variety of experiences makes it beneficial to almost every subject area.
Unlike traditional school trips that can be too expensive for parents or too impractical for their children, VR is designed to include all students.
Unlike traditional school trips that can be too expensive for parents or too impractical for their children, VR is designed to include all students.
2. VR engages students
We only remember 10% of what we read, but can retain 90% of what we experience. Many students can become disengaged with classic teaching methods. The modern technology of VR gets students’ attention like nothing else and ensure you have the full attention of your class.
3. VR encourages skills of the future and can help boost results.
Students are “transported” out of the classroom and their imagination is allowed to flourish. Most VR products come complete with all the tools you need to deliver curriculum-aligned VR lessons to boost your students’ learning and improve student attainment which can increase exam results by up to 20%. Key skills include: Critical Thinking, Creativity & Collaboration.
4. VR builds relationships
The VR experience encourages interaction with other students. It is also ideal for transferring emotion and allowing a learner to feel the emotion in a scenario as well as develop empathy by taking the perspective of someone different to themselves. VR is also a great tool for remote learning by connecting students with their teacher is virtual spaces where students could share, collaborate and receive a classroom experience as they would normally.
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