Virtual Reality in Scottish Schools - A Scottish Learning Festival seminar 22nd September 2022 12.30-13.15
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Virtual Reality
in Scottish
Schools
A Scottish Learning Festival
seminar
22nd September 2022 Jim Fanning
12.30-13.15 Senior Education Officer
Emerging Technologies
Education Scotland
Where products, tools and apps are
referenced this should not be
regarded as an endorsement.
Part 1
• Introduction
Part 2
• Educator Panel
Robert Baldie PTC Design Technology
Forfar Academy
Simon Luxford-Moore Head of eLearning
ESMS
Ian Stuart Global Head of Education
Avantis Education
Dale Murphy PTC Technologies
Part 3 West Calder High School
• Q&A
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AR – augmented reality
MR – mixed reality
XR – extended reality
Definitions
• Virtual Reality is an
experience that is immersive
• The learner enters a
computer simulated
environment typically using a
special headset
‘A virtual reality environment is an immersive, interactive,
computer-generated space.’ (Chalmers)
A Short History
The first VR machine, called Sensorama, was created in 1956
In the 1980s and 90s the gaming industry adopted VR
In 2010 Palmer Luckey created the prototype of the Oculus Rift VR
headset
2012 Sony and Samsung develop VR headsets and Google releases
its Cardboard viewer for smartphones…….
2016- hundreds of companies are developing VR applications
The reality of presenting this seminar is quite daunting
In other cases, its Most often people
Sometimes, emerging
potential is misunderstand which
tech is seen as a
understood , but not specific technologies
trivial toy
its nature will thrive and why
On occasion, we get (Ball, M. The
everything right Metaverse. New York.
except for the timing 2022)
‘What makes technological transformation difficult to predict is the reality that it is caused not by one invention, innovation, or individual, but instead requires many changes to come together’. (Ball)
Enablers (‘many changes coming together’) VR IS BECOMING THE TECHNOLOGY IS THE TECHNOLOGY IS CONNECTIVITY IS MORE ACCESSIBLE GETTING SIMPLER GETTING CHEAPER IMPROVING
Challenges
CONNECTIVITY CONDUCT IN A MURKY MORAL ACCESS FOR THE HEALTH
VIRTUAL WORLD PRACTICES FEW CONCERNS
Why is VR a game-changer in education?
VR is an immersive experience
Once in a virtual word things change
You are changing learner perceptions in
a way that no other technology doesVR in Education
For VR to be a
Be as immersive as
success in Be easy to use
possible
education it must…
Provide some
Adapt to users
measure of Tell a good story
needs and abilities
progressVR in a Classroom Context
VR : a staged approach
• Stage 1: Using VR for perception or stimulation – the
educator directs the experience; learners are passive
viewers
• Stage 2: Learners interact with the virtual world and
influence the flow of content
• Stage 3: Learners have a high level of autonomy and guide
the learning through their decisions
• Stage 4: Social collaboration; learners have a ‘genuine
sense’ of being in a new space through interaction with
others
Source: https://www.virtualiteach.com/post/the-depths-of-vr-model-v2-0
Bambury, S.VR in a Classroom Context
Source: https://www.virtualiteach.com/post/bloom-s-taxonomy-virtual-realityVR in a Classroom Context
There are a
range of
free to use
and paid for
apps that
The Trench Experience Apollo 11 cover areas
of the
taught
curriculum
Anne Frank House Travelling While BlackVR in a Classroom Context
…and there
is the
potential
for teachers
to create
their own
VR contentVR in Scottish Education
In 2018 East Renfrewshire
Council was the first
education authority in the
UK roll out VR headsets to
its primary and secondary
schools East Renfrewshire gives all its schools VR
headsets - BBC NewsVR in Scottish Education
Forfar Academy @FATech_Ed
Primary School Transition Tour
Video Link
1) Climate Change COP#26
2) P7 transition virtual tour
(Practitioner Inquiry)
3) DYW visits
4) Winter Olympics Experience (ES
Inspection Lesson)
5) AR and STL Graph Comm Work
6) #VRARinEduVR in Scottish Education
At Erskine Stewart’s Melville
Schools in Edinburgh virtual
reality has been integrated into
everyday lessons. VR was used
to support learning during
Black History Month and across Erskine Stewart's Melville Schools - A Flagship Pioneer of
Scottish 21st Century Learning - CodeTheFuture.scot
curricular areas such as
Language, History and RMPSVR in Scottish Education
West Lothian Inclusion & Support
Service use VR headsets in their
professional learning offer, to
support practitioner understanding
of the needs of learners with
additional support needs
West Calder High School has used
VR headsets in their widely
recognised Holocaust education
programme
Anne Frank HouseVR in Scottish Education
Levenmouth High are working on a DYW
project with a local employer,
developing work experiences using a
360 camera and thinglink multi-media
platform
Virtual Reality for early
education is a research paper
from St Andrew’s University that
describes the application of VR
in an S1 project exploring St
Andrew’s Cathedral in the
middle agesPanel
Discussion • Why integrate VR into your teaching?
• How do you prepare teachers and learners for
Panellists the VR experience?
Robert Baldie
PTC Design Technology • How do you engage parents and carers (explain
Forfar Academy
the benefits and assuage concerns)?
Simon Luxford-Moore
Head of eLearning
ESMS
• How do you assess whether an ‘app’ is suitable
Ian Stuart for use?
Global Head of Education
Avantis
Dale Murphy • How do you assess learning?
PTC Technologies
West Calder High School
• Any thoughts on future developments?Q&A
VR : the future
2022
2023
2024
Advances in headsets
2025
2026
2027
2028 New VR accessories
2029
2030
Touch (haptics)The Metaverse • ‘A massively scaled and interoperable network of real-time rendered 3D virtual worlds that can be experienced synchronously and persistently by effectively unlimited number of users with an individual sense of presence, and with continuity of data, such as identify, history, entitlements, objects, communications and payments. Ball, M. The Metaverse. New York. 2022.
Contact: james.fanning@educationscotland.gov.scot
Chalmers, D J. REALITY+.
References Allen Lane. London.
2022.
Marr, B. Extended Reality
Greengard, S. Virtual
in Practice. 2021. John
Reality. MIT. 2019.
Wiley & Sons. Chichester.You can also read
