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VR school is here — and it’s not going so great.
The New Yorker stepped inside a VR school, where students wear headsets for two to three hours a day.
Here’s how a virtual field trip to a mountain went for some sixth graders:
One [student] suggested that we should all be quiet to prevent an avalanche, and then started screaming to demonstrate what not to do; a teacher quickly muted him. As the exercise got under way, the kids grew increasingly frustrated. “My teleport’s broken!” one of them shouted. Another couldn’t find the next chair in the line up the mountain. ...the whole group kept falling and getting reset to the beginning of the activity.
Virtual-Reality School as the Ultimate School Choice
[The New Yorker]
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