I am having a debate with a colleague of mine about using virtual reality in education. It comes down to a simple question: Is it more useful to visualize the visible or the invisible?<\/p>\n
He thinks it is more useful to use VR to get a better insight into things that we can see but not normally interact with, like planets. I am more excited about using VR to interact with things we normally could never see, like atoms.<\/p>\n
It’s not exactly that one of us is right and the other wrong. It’s more a question of which is the more natural fit for VR in education.<\/p>\n
At the end of the day, my guess is that we are probably both sort of right. Like my dad used to say when I would ask him a silly question: “Do you want to go to Brooklyn or by bus?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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