Outcome 3: PD and Newsletter
Outcome 2: Book Hangout on Air
My deep play group is discussing what we learned from reading "Making Thinking Visible" by Ritchart and Church
Ideas for using VR in different content areas
Here are some ideas that my colleagues have brainstormed for how to use VR in their classes.
World Studies and American History (Middle School)
Social studies
6th grade Earth Science
Biology:
Anatomy
World Studies and American History (Middle School)
- VR would increase historical and cultural empathy though the programs that show how people of different cultures live (like the tee-pee example).
- We could use VR to explore modern civics issues and increase awareness of modern injustices
- looking at the lives of refuges or those who live in modern poverty
- Seeing the Black Lives Matter Protests with the New York Times App
- We can be digital tourists, exploring modern cities and the ancient ruins of the historical cultures we explore
- In 7th grade we can use VR to follow the campaign trail (a great way to get them excited about politics and the Constitution).
Social studies
- Tour of Chicago to analyze the legacy of the Burnham plan
- Create your own ideal city (or other space)
- View important spaces in history (tour of Tut's tomb, Gettysburg battlefield, etc)
6th grade Earth Science
- VR would be great to study geography (interdisciplinary) or geology (I'm sure there must be a grand canyon app that can be used to show sedimentary deposits).
Biology:
- Tour different biomes to view differences in flora / fauna (Google Expeditions)
- Virtual dissections?
- Practice setting up a transect - or other relevant skills needed for fieldwork (Google Earth)
- Virtual labs - for practicing techniques or when equipment is unavailable (people developed web-based interactive labs for AP science back in the day, so maybe this could happen?)
- Exploring inside the cell (InCell VR) or inside neural networks (InMind VR).
Anatomy
- Explore organ systems (Google expeditions)
Outcome 1: Tinker Tale 2
Goals
Our group's goals are to see how we can use visualizations to enhance student learning. Our group is interested in student and teacher creation of visualization tools for student learning. The tools include videos for a flipped classroom, virtual reality, augmented reality, and modeling software.
What I am trying to learn more about?
Cool Things I've learned
Apps
Book: Making Thinking Visible
I hope to learn simple and effective ways to make students' thinking visible to their peers, myself, parents, and to other global citizens. After understanding the pedagogy of making thinking visible, I'd like to see how students can use VR or other digital representations of their thinking.
Tinkering
Our group's goals are to see how we can use visualizations to enhance student learning. Our group is interested in student and teacher creation of visualization tools for student learning. The tools include videos for a flipped classroom, virtual reality, augmented reality, and modeling software.
What I am trying to learn more about?
- Physical Logistics (How many devices do I need? How can I set up a router that saves settings from room to room?)
Cool Things I've learned
- Cardboard V2
- Whenever I show a teacher they instantly have unlimited ideas of how they can use it in their classroom
- History
- Go to Museums and Locations related to the region they are studying
- English
- See locations of books
- Math
- Estimate volume of Great Pyramids
- Science
- Search Anatomy in Google expeditions (Nervous System, Cardiovascular System)
- Biology - Travel into a cell to see organelles and proteins
- History
Apps
- Google Expeditions
- Intro Video
- List of currently available expeditions in a google sheet
- Ideas for Physics Lessons
- Mars Expeditions
- Lessons on Scale (small= Cell VR and large = Space VR)
Book: Making Thinking Visible
I hope to learn simple and effective ways to make students' thinking visible to their peers, myself, parents, and to other global citizens. After understanding the pedagogy of making thinking visible, I'd like to see how students can use VR or other digital representations of their thinking.
Tinkering
- How to make a Google Expedition
- School Tour
- Neighborhood
- Genius Hour /20% Time
- Glowscript.org
- VR Programming
- FUSE
Tinker Tale 1
Here is the first video describing what our group is exploring and what I have learned about virtual reality so far.