See you tomorrow in school, but in Metaverse!
What could Metaverse and school have in common? Isn’t Metaverse something yet in development, in the far future, and a platform for gamers and developers?
The short answer is: no. Like any technological innovation humanity brought forward, Metaverse is simply a tool. As a tool, it can be used in many ways. The main question is: what is the potential of this tool? Indeed, Metaclassroom gives many options to teachers and students! From visualization tools, the possibility to relisten parts of the lecture for individual students to engaging surroundings that keep students’ attention on the lecture’s content.
Thanks to the forward-thinking of the school’s director Mag. Christoph Jank, BHAK BHAS will be one of the first schools in Austria to implement Metaverse-assisted lectures.
How in the world will said lectures work and look?
Yesterday on the day of open doors in BHAK BHAS Gänserndorf, all the visitors, students, parents, and teachers had an opportunity to glimpse the future of lectures through a Metaclassroom demonstration by Tomislav Matic. The CEO of Crypto Future has vast experience in modernizing and accelerating businesses, but this time he has turned his attention to the schools.
“As someone who keeps the pulse on the IT industry and a father, I saw an opportunity to bring advances from IT space to schools. When these children finish their studies, they will be confronted with expectations of having specific qualifications related to Metaverse and virtual spaces in general. It makes perfect sense to start this learning and adaptation process while they are still in their school’s safe learning environment”, said Matic.
Teachers in BHAK BHAS Mag. Dr. Alexandra Kotrnoch- Kubena and Anja Zderadicka, BEd, also stepped into the Metaclass in this demonstration and visited technology, biology, history, and geography classes. They could see students going up the Grossglockner or visiting historical monuments. When talking about the anatomy of an eye, students can zoom in, view from different angles, and even answer a pop quiz about the anatomy, what particular elements are called, and how they function. Imagine the impact this has on learning! For visual learners, experiences like this will solidify the knowledge in students’ minds.
How would the technology class in Metaverse work? After all, don’t students need to try and make things with their own hands?
“Let us take an engine of a car as an example. If students are to learn how to assemble it correctly, they need multiple engines in the room to try this. However, what if every student could individually work on an engine in virtual reality? Let us take this further: what if there was also a simulator of possible malfunction scenarios and a guided process with instructions on fixing those problems? It is in long term time saving, it increases efficiency and offers an opportunity to solve a multitude of problems, and repeat them until they are well studied”, explains Matic.
We at the Crypto Future team are excited to embark on such a beautiful partnership and bring the future closer to the students so they can pilot and create their futures.
