Virtual Reality(VR)
technology can be used to design student-centric and engaging lessons that
develop students' identities and foster the joy of learning. Using modern and immersive
Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR/AR) technology developed in partnership with NTU,
the school has piloted the use of VR and AR in a national education cum biology
interdisciplinary project. If you are interested to learn more, please contact Dennis Pang at pang_choon_guan@moe.edu.sg.
Based on the 5E guided inquiry model of Engage, Explore,
Explain, Expand and Evaluate, the teachers
designed the lesson for students to collaborate with each other to
discover the structure and epidemiology of the SARS coronavirus and suggest
ways to prevent its spread of mutant flu viruses. The conceptual review framework and design
thinking process was used to inform the reflection process to design and
prototype the VR/AR lessons.
Riverside Secondary School’s VR project is an
interdisciplinary project that involves the integration of disciplines of ICT,
national education and biology to develop lessons in the teaching of cells and
viruses that closely integrate the affordances of virtual reality and its
ability to increase understanding of the real world through immersive
experiences. The resulting interdisciplinary product is situated in an
augmented reality three-dimensional virtual world that can help students to
visualise the microcosmic cellular environment and manipulate its organelles.
