VR And Stimulation Tools In Education

 

Virtual reality and Stimulations are tools that allow you to live a certain experience virtually, for example you can explore Niagara Falls, then go back to walk on great wall of china, or you can drive your dream car without having to leave your living room. But how this technology can be used in education?

VR and Stimulations can provide for the students impressive experiences that would be impossible in real life, And because of the students can learn better through experience and hands-on experiments than traditional ways. VR comes to provide for them this experience, and many schools around the world already integrated these tools into their curriculum.

For example: history class, the teacher can take the students in an incredible experience to giza's pyramids to take a lesson about the old Egyptian culture, it will be very inspiring for the students and way more better than the traditional reading from the book. Or in science class In the science class the teacher can take the students to different jungles around the world and discover animals and plants without leaving their desks. In physics and chemistry students can use stimulations to make certain experiments and make observations and draw out conclusions.

Moreover it is perfect for students with learning difficulties or any disabilities, It is one of the most effective ways to deliver information and knowledge to the students with the least effort and time.

What can you do now that we were not able to do a year ago.

 

Now we are able to do our online work more easily than a year ago, last year we were new to online work, internet was used by most of us mainly for entertainment, we started learning/teaching online without any experience, so we faced a lot of problems and tough situations. But now we have a good experience and the developers developed useful tools that make learning and teaching easier and more comfortable. No we have advanced education tools like whiteboards, polls, assessments, and stimulations, there is websites designed for schools, agendas, and evaluation tools. All these tools was so basic and not developed at all, but now online education field faced big mutations that saved our time and effort.

Challenges You Face When Teaching/Learning online.

Every time has its own challenges, even though nowadays learning looks so easy and accessible it has a lot of challenges that every student and teacher is suffering from. For the teachers many of them face challenges when they want to deliver their ideas because most of them are not trained to use technology in teaching. Also teachers face a big challenge and it is keeping students engaged from behind of his screen, they have to make so much effort to keep students on track. and for the students there are different types of learners some kinesthetic learners can learn in front of the screen, and the visual learners cannot learn anything from ppt slides with a recorded voice and personally I suffered from this problem, it was so hard for me to understand some lessons, I used to take the titles and search for videos and stimulations on youtube.

What do you think should be taught when working online to avoid problems.

 

Technology and online working should be done with full-awarness, first of all students and especially kids should be using a closed source device, which is a device programed in a way it can run only certain programs and platforms, and can open only  certain websites so the students cannot be distracted by social media or by visiting any other websites. Also students before the schools begins should be taught in details how to work online and how to use learning applications provided by the school. Second, students should be supervised all the time by their parents to make sure that they are not doing anything other than learning, and to help them in case they face any problem. Also the teacher should take care of his activities and word and keep them straight forward to avoid any type of misunderstanding.

How To Be A Digital Citizen.

 

 In the last decade of our life everything have changed, our real life and our relationship with the society have been reduced to become only from behind the screens. In the last 2 years and during the lock-down  education also shifted to E-learning. Not only schools and universities shifted for online work but also government institutions, in some advanced countries they took the chance and keep their work online, thats faster, more efficient and saves time and money. so we must adapt to this change and be aware of our new appearance on the internet. 

To become a good digital citizen first, you need to protect your information by following some rules. first you should not give away any personal information except for government official websites. second, do not give any permissions for apps and websites, and build strong passwords and check from time to time your privacy settings.

also you have to be responsible and serious when dealing with others and with online services, and you should take care of your words, and be respectful when you communicate with others or when you give your opinion on any social issue or political and religious case in order to avoid any case of misunderstanding, bullying, or harassment.

Tools That Can Be Used In Online Assesment.

 

Nowadays, there is two types of schools. the first type is teaching online totally and the other shifted to hybrid teaching. In both of them online assessments are indispensable, so we need to find out the most practical tools that can be used in online assessments. The first and the most useful tool is google forms.

1- Google forms is the most powerful educational platform, it is totally free, without ads, and available for everyone. It is a virtual classroom with alot of great features for quizzes, assignments, and evaluations. Moreover it includes and works collaboratively with all other google tools like google docs which look like Microsoft word but it is so much better, google sheets and google slides. These tools are also up to date and they are improved and updated routinely, every time you use them you find featured and improved overall experience.

2- Moodle. Moodle is an e-learning tool with alot of features and options that allow the teacher to handle the assessments easily, it contains many types of assessments like quizzes, video assignments and evaluations. Assessments in moodle provides alot of question types like multiple choice, true or false, long and short answer questions, and file uploading. 

3- Mentimeter. it is an educational tool that can be used in assesments, it include various types of questions and polls such as multiple choice, ranking, and work cloud. it can be used for collecting ideas, knowledge evaluations and voting.

Integrating Technology Into Teaching.

 

In the last two years we have seen a revolution in teaching methods. Suddenly and without preparation all schools and universities around the world shifted from regular teaching to online teaching and teaching become totally dependent on technology. During the lock-down lectures and classrooms were monitored virtually by live virtual meetings or by recorded sessions and the assesments were done on specific platforms and websites. so far these methods was quite successful. After this pandemic, experts found that technology in teaching was very efficient, and we can see the biggest education eficides around the world integrated the hybrid-learning even after the pandemic is gone since there is alot of material that can be learned virtually or by recorded sessions and maybe its better than the regular class learning, also for the practical experiments it was very efficient to send for the students recorded video or some precautions or even the whole experiment before they attend to the lab and apply the experiments by there hands. Technology saves alot of time and energy for both the educator and the learner. Moreover, technology integration into teaching saved the education in Lebanon and other countries that have economic dizasters; using technology for learning instead of regular attendance is the best choice to keep education and learning process on track.

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 Education media and technology. It is a class with totally new and creative ideas,concepts,and plans, it is designed mainly to train educators to use the technology in teaching and to let educators make the most profitable invesments in teaching and training in order to meet the needs of education field nowadays, especially in taugh situations like the Corona-virus pandemic we are living now. And for our chance, this pandemic happened in a time that we have a revolution in technology and artificial intelligence. in this class we have learned how to use this technology with our students and maximize benefits from it, this technology that most of us use it for entertainment before. it is full of educational websites,applications,tools, and forms that make learning process much more easier. we have learned to use this technology in education from A to Z we just have to practice using them since it is a skill like any other skill needs practice.