Students still attend traditional biology lectures, and in addition to their virtual reality labs, they spend about three hours a week analyzing what they encountered in the Alien Zoo, VandenBrooks said. Related: How one high-poverty district is adding virtual reality to its classrooms Replacing traditional labs, this new technology from Dreamscape Learn is used to reinforce the foundational life science concepts they are learning in the classroom.ĭreamscape Learn is a product of Dreamscape Immersive and Arizona State University, combining the narrative storytelling of Hollywood with educational principles to engage students and revolutionize the way they learn, said John VandenBrooks, associate dean for immersive learning at Arizona State University. It was the opportunity to experience what about 8,000 students at Arizona State University are already doing on a weekly basis as a part of their introductory biology courses. My trip to the Alien Zoo wasn’t just for fun or a total abuse of my role as an education journalist.
It became clear that there were tumors on the glider’s lungs, and that it was suffering from a contagious lung cancer.
Wearing gloves, I used the hand controls to make an incision, and compare its organs to healthy organs to identify what caused the glider’s death. When it died, I used the hand controls to pick up the creature, and suddenly, the glider’s body was right before my eyes. To prevent the spotted gliders from going extinct, the voice instructed me to tag and track a sick-looking glider. A god-like voice warned me that a species called the spotted glider was dying at an unusual rate. I was surrounded by beautiful, colorful, dinosaur-like creatures that seemed to exist in perfect harmony. Suddenly, I was floating through the lush Alien Zoo in an ethereal gondola. The next, I was sitting in a dark, eerily quiet room being outfitted with a giant headset, goggles, headphones, and hand controls, and praying it had all been sanitized first.
INTERGALACTIC WILDLIFE SANCTUARY- One minute I was making my way through a San Diego conference center swarming with ed tech visionaries and investors.
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