{"id":63235,"date":"2018-04-12T17:04:41","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T21:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=63235"},"modified":"2018-04-13T09:34:18","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T13:34:18","slug":"vr-lab-students-build-their-own-educational-apps-to-help-visualize-concepts-in-astronomy-chemistry-physics-bolkan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2018\/04\/12\/vr-lab-students-build-their-own-educational-apps-to-help-visualize-concepts-in-astronomy-chemistry-physics-bolkan\/","title":{"rendered":"VR Lab! Students build their own educational apps to help visualize concepts in astronomy, chemistry & physics. [Bolkan]"},"content":{"rendered":"

VR Lab!<\/strong><\/a> — from thejournal.com by Joshua Bolkan<\/p>\n

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When\u00a0Tampa Preparatory School\u00a0launched decided to turn a closet into a virtual reality lab, they had no idea how far their students would run with the tools, but that’s exactly what they did, sitting down to build their own educational apps to help visualize concepts in astronomy, chemistry and physics. In addition to the educational apps, built by students on their own initiative, the VR lab is also used for art classes and more.<\/p>\n

Chad Lewis, director of technology at Tampa Prep, recently sat down with\u00a0THE Journal<\/em>\u00a0to talk about the school’s experience with VR as an educational tool.<\/p>\n

Tell me a little about having students design their own VR apps. Are there any benefits to it that surprised you?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chad Lewis:\u00a0Some surprising benefits included branching out beyond computer science into areas like chemistry and physics. This is an example of the amazing things students can do if given the opportunity to pursue their passions. They need time, space and resources as well as support and encouragement.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The main thing is that they’re learning coding, 3D modeling, game development, collaboration, design thinking, etc.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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In the process, one of our computer science students came up to me and said, “Mr. Lewis do you mind if I try to create some virtual reality apps using Unity?” and it really took off from there. The lab was a student-driven initiative.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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VR Lab! — from thejournal.com by Joshua Bolkan Excerpts\u00a0(emphasis DSC): When\u00a0Tampa Preparatory School\u00a0launched decided to turn a closet into a virtual reality lab, they had no idea how far their students would run with the tools, but that’s exactly what they did, sitting down to build their own educational apps to help visualize concepts in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,174,364,127,45,271,135,32,215,210,391,419,180,46,284,309,204,305,66,89,50,195,253,187,445],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d","category-career-development","category-chemistry","category-collaboration","category-computer-science","category-creativity","category-design","category-education-technology","category-educational-games-serious-games","category-emerging-technologies","category-human-computer-interaction-hci","category-ideas-teaching","category-innovation","category-k-12-related","category-physics","category-platforms","category-programming","category-project-based-learning","category-student-related","category-teachers","category-teaching-learning","category-tools","category-virtual-reality-worlds-learning","category-visualizing-information","category-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63235"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63244,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63235\/revisions\/63244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}