Technology has a large impact on all forms of education and as technology advances it is important for the education institution to grow and adjust with the new technology. In this blog I will discuses some possible changes to second level education in order to take advantage of emergent technologies.
Virtual reality
With rapid improvements in virtual reality(vr) technology I believe that schools should prepare to make use of it in certain subjects for example Biology classes would benefit greatly from having vr technology implemented into the class. Rather then students looking at diagram of a human skeleton, muscles or other organs students would be able to interact with a virtual mock up and would be able get close to the muscles and move the models limbs seeing in greater detail how they work and interact with each other.
Construction studies would benefit from vr by teacher having the ability to show students digital model houses that could be disassembled or interactive videos that allow students to see how the foundation was made and how the walls and insulation were installed.
In a similar vain to biology, agricultural science would have similar benefits from vr except that instead of a human model the virtual model would be an animal this combined with some interactive videos would effectively turn the subject into a pseudo-practical subject.
Lastly geography would also benefit from virtual reality. While this subject would get the least use out of virtual reality out of the mentioned subjects it would benefit from interactive videos and thanks to virtual reality it would be for students to have a more hands on experience with the subject.
Virtual reality is a new major technology that has the possibility to drastically reshape the way we learn things and I believe it would be a poor choice for the education industry to not take advantage of it.
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