Hannibal School District gets VR headsets to enhance learning - WGEM

HANNIBAL, Mo. (WGEM) - The Hannibal School District is bringing much tech into the schoolroom to springiness students a much immersive learning experience.

HPS got 64 virtual world headsets for its mediate schoolhouse students.

Sixth graders traveled backmost successful clip to the Aztec Empire, each done virtual world headsets.

“We learned astir the Aztecs’ satellite and a feline successful 1 of the scenes came up to america and told america astir his story, astir however the Aztecs works crops and everything,” said sixth grader Noveli Collier.

Collier said she’s blessed to usage much tech successful the classroom.

“I similar however they incorporated those into our learning due to the fact that that’s what I consciousness similar nowadays, a clump of sixth graders similar electronics and truthful it helps incorporated electronics and learning astatine the aforesaid time,” Collier said.

Collier’s societal studies teacher Tim Schieferdecker said the District got the headsets backmost successful December. This week is the archetypal clip they got to usage them.

Students took portion successful simulations wherever they research onshore astir them and speech to characters who mightiness person existed during antithetic clip periods.

“We get to spot virtual, astir Minecraft-like experiences for the students arsenic they roam escaped done virtual worlds and arsenic we nonstop them done these worlds too,” Schieferdecker said.

Schieferdecker said the headsets springiness his students opportunities to sojourn places they would not usually beryllium capable to go. He said it’s each successful an effort to heighten their education.

“It’s been astonishing with the Hannibal Public School District keeping up with technology, erstwhile we person the VR headsets, it’s similar we person 64 circular travel tickets to wherever we privation to beryllium successful the world,” Schieferdecker said.

Schieferdecker said with the VR headsets, helium plans to amusement his students Greece, Rome, the Medieval Ages, the Great Wall of China, and more.

The schoolhouse territory said the VR headsets are lone astatine the mediate schoolhouse close now, but could beryllium coming to different schools successful the future. The headsets tin besides beryllium utilized successful classes similar subject and English Language Arts.

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