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Exploring Culture with Virtual Reality

Explore ways to integrate virtual reality in education to enhance cultural understanding. Discover tools, apps, and activities for immersive learning. Enhance visible thinking routines with VR experiences. Check the full guide for tips!

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Exploring Culture with Virtual Reality

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  1. Exploring Culture with Virtual Reality While you are waiting, try to download Google Expeditions on your phone. Once downloaded, search for a place you would like to explore and download that expedition. Sherry Dickerson

  2. Objectives • Discuss how using virtual reality can help students explore different elements of culture. • Identify different sources to provide virtual reality experiences to students. • Explore visible thinking routines that can be used in combination with virtual reality experiences.

  3. What is virtual reality? • "Virtual reality entails presenting our senses with a computer-generated virtual environment that we can explore in some fashion."(Virtual Reality Society, www.vrs.org.uk)

  4. Virtual Reality Options for the Classroom Google Cardboard @ $8/viewer from Amazon Universal VR viewers from Bnext @ $32/viewer from Amazon

  5. Virtual Reality in Practice • Make specific, focused and intentional activities • Have students explore different cultural aspects that relate to your curriculum • Pair students together and have them take turns • Consider using visible thinking routines to encourage dialogue

  6. https://www.thinglink.com/scene/1010577192335179779

  7. My preferred list of VR apps for open exploration

  8. My preferred list of VR DIY options for guided tours

  9. Examples to use in the classroom • Day of the Dead • Argentina • Mexican Artists • Youtube 360 • Google Earth Voyager • Google Arts and Culture

  10. Tips and tricks • Use apps that already have content available and developed. • Allow students to choose what they want to explore at times. • Do these activities as centers. Have some students work on VR while others use laptops to explore VR online. Google Earth, Google Street View, 360 Cities, work well on a computer. • These activities are great motivators for finishing class work. If this is a transition activity or filler before class is over, students will enjoy this option! • Have students turn in evidence of their learning and reflect on what they have learned. • Open up opportunities for them to make cultural comparisons and have conversations about what they saw.

  11. Visible Thinking Routines • Visible Thinking is a flexible and systematic research-based conceptual framework • It integrates the development of students' thinking with content learning across subject matters. • It was originally developed at LemshagaAkademi in Sweden as part of the Innovating with Intelligence project. • It is part of the Project Zero project at the Graduate School of Education at Harvard. • Check it out here! • http://www.visiblethinkingpz.org/VisibleThinking_html_files/03_ThinkingRoutines/03a_ThinkingRoutines.html

  12. Visible Thinking Routine Options with VR

  13. Visible Thinking Routine Options with VR

  14. Visible Thinking Routine Options with VR

  15. VR in Practice • Work with a partner to explore the scene you explored in Google Expeditions. • One person explores and tells their partner what they see using the target language. • The other person takes notes in the “see” section of the chart. • Take turns exploring the scenes and writing. • After both have explored, complete the “think” and “wonder” sections of the chart, having a deeper conversation about what you explored.

  16. Questions? Feel free to contact me! sherry.dickerson@corvallis.k12.or.us

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