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Using VR, students can learn about the cells in the human body while “travelling” into the bloodstream, or “explore” the degree of plastic pollution in the oceans. They can also conduct complicated experiments using expensive lab-equipment and dangerous chemicals, just by putting on a pair of VR-goggles that immediately offers very realistic and lively experiences.
[...] But the rapid growth of VR-technology in teaching is a new and relatively un-tested field, and at the University of Copenhagen Associate Professor in Psychology Guido Makransky investigates how, why, and in what settings VR-learning provides an advantage over traditional methods and media, so society´s investments in VR-technology can be used in the most beneficial way.
[...] In a study with 66 7th and 8th -grade students (half boys, half girls) at a Danish science talent school, Makransky and colleagues found that the girls learned most in the VR-simulations, when the VR-teacher there was a young, female researcher named Marie, whereas the boys learned more, while being instructed by a flying robot in the form of a drone.
Not mentioned in the article: What other "teacher" figures were tested. Did they try male teachers? Anthropomorphic rabbits? Disembodied voices?
A Gender Matching Effect in Learning with Pedagogical Agents in an Immersive Virtual Reality Science Simulation DOI: 10.1111/jcal.12335
Source: https://news.ku.dk/all_news/2019/virtual-reality-research/
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 11 2019, @12:18PM (1 child)
Maybe she just thought you were ugly
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday January 11 2019, @01:07PM
Nah, she might not have dug my fashion sense or my height but my face is apparently somewhere above average going by the amount of sex I had as a teenager. Going by most anyone's measure my body was incredible. I took up skateboarding at twelve and weight lifting at fourteen. By the time I took biology I could bench sets of over two hundred pounds and leg press sets of over six hundred pounds. Max bench was a little over two fifty and I have no idea what my max leg press was since the machine only went up to eight hundred and I could press that half a dozen times in a row. Which is mostly to say I was possibly in better shape than any nerd in history.
Fear not the competition though, once I got out of the Army and discovered the Internet, I returned to a more average physique. I still can't wear any kind of tube socks though. They're tight enough on my calves that they inhibit circulation and even if they didn't one or two wearings would ruin the elastic at the top. It's fairly unpleasant in the winter.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.