Teachers use Half-Life game to teach

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According to an article published by Upload VR, Poland has introduced compulsory online education since March 25. Only five days later, the first two-hour lesson out of a total of six lessons was conducted. show on Half-Life: Alyx was applied to students of Szkola 33.

The above class is intended to teach students vocabulary about objects in an apartment. Teachers use markers in Half-Life: Alyx to write on windows and mark words for common objects such as radios and potted plants.
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Teacher from Szkola 33 school, Ms. Katarzyna Sut told Upload VR: “We decided to using VR in lectures as it looks like a good opportunity to try something new and engage students in online learning sessions. At that time, the pandemic was just happening, schools were forced to close, and we wanted to turn the attention of students to online classes. We also hope that this teaching method will help the students to partially forget about the uncomfortable situation during the quarantine period – the children are locked in the house and cannot freely play and play as before. “

The above project is the result of a collaboration between Szkola 33 school and a local media company called OFFshot – the unit that helped integrate the educational function into Valve’s virtual reality game. OFFshot representative Adrian Michalski commented: “VR is the future of creativity. Our projects show that VR can be more widely applied to general education.”
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“We plan to use VR for classes in the future, but the number of students participating will depend on the pandemic situation after the summer break,” Ms. Sut said. We hope to be able to return to school in September and if all goes well, regular classes will also apply. VR . technology. It would be nice if all students could attend a VR class at least once a week, but that depends on the epidemic situation. Students can visit countries and even other planets using VR technology. Their cognitive process will become more natural, instead of just reading about the above things in books. VR really has a lot of potential and we are very optimistic about the development of VR technology during this time.”​​