Reflection of class on Feb. 6^th

  Virtual reality is a very hot topic in all areas of society now. Many scholars claimed that the next ten years is a decade for VR. Thanks for your effort on preparing VR headsets and learning resources, I had a great experience on virtual reality today although I felt a little uncomfortable in the beginning.

  Following with your guidance, I realized that teachers now have much more opportunities to deal with impossible educational issues which have less possibilities to practice and experience in physical classroom before.

  For biological teachers, they always have difficulties on promoting students’ comprehension of human organs or plant tissues in microenvironment although students can observe them by high power microscope. For chemical teachers, it’s also difficult to show the whole process of a reaction in classroom by demonstrating an experiment because most reactions just happen in several seconds and some experiments are very dangerous which cannot be performed in classroom. For geographical teachers, it’s also impossible for them to explain some phenomenon by terrestrial globe and illustrations such as El Niño and circulation of ocean currents.

  But with VR technology, I think most of those problem won’t be problem anymore in the future that teachers can lead students to a virtual world and let them experience those phenomenon or reaction authentically like in the real world. Actually as you showed us today, biological teachers can really use VR for their teaching now although the virtual world is lack of active interaction.

  Even more, I think in the future the boundary of real world and virtual world will be blurred in a great degree that humans can experience the whole life in the virtual world. Well, a little crazy and fantastic.