VR will be a new and unique “empathy machine.”
This was the first one I saw that wasn't the equivalent to a rollercoaster. It did make me empathic where I had not been before.
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hackeducation.com hackeducation.com
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that the positive benefits of going on actual field trips
I don't know whether IRL field trips are much benefit either.
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Educational Stereoscopy
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The Sword of Damocles,
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seen record-setting levels of venture capital
Yes, a bubble. Wait for it. Wait for it. Just click your heels together and say to yourself, "Second Life, Second Life, Second Life."
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Horizon Reports
Prima facie evidence of the foolish practice of futurology. As Jesus said in The Big Leboski, "Laughable."
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we’re still two to three years out from widespread adoption of VR.
I agree with N. Taleb that black swans are only retroactively predictable. I always predict that it will always be something else. I am always right.
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Virtual simulations promise that learning experiences can be undertaken more safely (and sometimes more cost-effectively).
I recall my most recent introduction to VR was one of the early NYT attempts. This one showed a food drop in Sudan. I really felt something new with that VR video. I felt empathy because I was surrounded (something I could see AND feel around me) by folks who were racing to get at the parachuting food palettes drifting down and landing. The point being that the experience was embodied. For some small percentage of people VR is incredibly embodied--they get very powerful motion sickness.
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the erasure of embodiment
I have no idea what this means. I need more context, more examples, more 'embodiment'.
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a recent Audrey Watters post
Join us here on Audrey's page.
Remember that this is someone else's field. Be playful and be kind, but be true and honor the work with that truth.
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hackeducation.com hackeducation.com
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ideology, inequality, and higher education, with a specific focus on for-profit education through the lens of race, class, and gender
That's a lot spinning plates.
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be posting the video-recording soon.)
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More importantly, more urgently, is this "trick" being hard-coded, hard-wired into the infrastructure of our schools?
Of course, schools have ever been tools and it all depends on who has grabbed the handle. Well...who? Wanna get used? Go to school and be a tool.
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