LEADICT River Valley High School

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LEAD_at_ICTRiver Valley High School

• Learning with 3D Immersive Classroom

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Trends in Virtual Reality

• Virtual Reality would re-shape our life in the
  21st century
• VR has a wide diversity of impressive practical
  applications such as

• 3D medical imaging,
• architectural design,
• visualisation of complex scientific data,
• molecular / crystal modeling, games
• entertainment, training and education.

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Learning Biology with 3D Immersive Technology

• Some concepts that students have difficulty in
  understanding, can be taught and learnt more
  effectively with the aid of 3D visualization.
• Given only planar 2D images, students sometimes
  misinterpreted the model or form distorted
  images.
• VR help visual learners develop their ability to
  visualize, understand and mentally construct the
  details of complex scientific models.

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Learning Biology with 3D Immersive Technology

• Learning of concepts of Biology can be enhanced
  using the Virtual Reality Classroom with 3D
  Immersive Technology,
• using the Teaching for Understanding
  framework, where the emphasis on curriculum
  design is developing students understanding.

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Virtual Reality Classroom
Virtual Reality Classroom is a next generation
teaching facility for in-depth, interactive and
immersive learning.
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Virtual Reality Classroom
3D environment enables students to reach many
complex worlds from bio molecules to solar system
to gain a deeper better understanding of
difficult concepts
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Lesson Plan
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Lesson Plan Materials required
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Introductory Lesson

• Class 3A
• Biology
• Studying DNA

3D Movie
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Experience the Technology

• 3D Movie

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After the 3D Movie

• Teacher highlights how about 2 m of DNA molecule
  is actually super-coiled and spun to form 23
  pairs of chromosomes and amazingly packed in the
  nucleus of a human cell.

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Experience the Technology

• Molecular Studio

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Using Molecular Studio
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Molecular Studio

• Illustrate molecular structures of different
  components of DNA.
• Rotate molecules to different orientations to
  help students visualise 3-D stereoscopic views of
  various parts.
• pentose sugar (deoxyribose vs ribose)
• nitrogenous bases (adenine, thymine, guanine,
  cytosine, uracil)
• sugar-phosphate backbone
• double-stranded DNA

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3D Posters
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3D Posters
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3D Posters

• Students identify various components (e.g. sugar,
  phosphate) on screen to check if they can
  perceive and recognise the structure the 3-D
  molecules in different spatial orientation.

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3D Posters
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Higher order thinking

• Use Socratic questioning or critical thinking to
  deduce / reason out
• the design of DNA structure to its function
• how the genetic code is stored in DNA

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Feedback from Students

• Which part of the 3D aspects of the lesson do you
  like best ? You can choose more than one.
• Animation movie 32, 96.9
• Molecular studio 9, 27.3
• Poster 0, 0.0

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Feedback from Students

• Has this lesson in the 3D Immersive Classroom
  helped you in the understanding the subject
  better. Regardless if you had a little or no
  prior knowledge of the subject just taught.
• Yes 32, 96.9
• No 1, 3.0

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Feedback from Students

• Did todays lesson in the 3D Immersive classroom
  help you generate more interest in the
  subject/topic that was taught ?
• Yes 30, 90.9
• No 3, 9.1

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Comments from Students

• I feel invigorated and enthused by the 3D
  animated cells and its indeed a very fulfilling
  experience for me. Now, I think I would like the
  Biology lessons more than ever as we dive deeper
  into the world of human biological cells. I would
  like other schools to have such special lessons
  too. - Jadeline Tay

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Comments from Students

• Its fun to see the 3D cells rather than 2D ones
  in photographs. The video has enhanced my
  understanding of cells and the lesson is
  engaging. Now I am keen to learn more and I hope
  there will be animation for other biology topics.
  
• - Madeline Lien

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Comments from Students

• The 3D animation has really helped me gain
  another outlook in the structure and internal
  working of cells, plus illustrate effectively the
  units of DNA, which was very interesting, and as
  good, if not better than a practical lesson.
  - Lai Jian Qin

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Comments from Students

• Beauty of 3D Immersive Technology
• Easily adapted for any subject -
• E.g. Mathematics 3-D solids angles
• E.g. Chemistry molecular structures
• Animations are visual and dynamic
• Engaging and interesting

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Content Creation

• Worked with vendor on the Biology content
  customised to syllabus level of students.
• - Preview Organelles of a Virtual Cell
• In the pipeline - Geography projects (river
  formations tsunamis) - Chemistry projects
  (stereo-isomerism)

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Q and A
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National Digital Science Arts Competition
2008 Website www.mit.sg Online
RegistrationEnds 7 Jan 2008 Submission 1 Feb
2008
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Thank You!

• River Valley High School