Education is the process that facilitates learning, and knowledge acquisition, values, skills, habits and beliefs. It is the process in which systematic instructions are given, especially at a university or school.
The words you read just now are the Dictionary and Wikipedia definitions of Education. Let’s keep them aside for sometime as whatever may the definition, Education has been an integral part of our lives since ages. Education contributes a vital role in developing an individual’s character.
Now, let’s come to the most common discussion we do on social media and various other platforms i.e. “Education system should change”. Education system and mode of teaching kept on reforming since the olden ages of Gurukulas to today’s International Schools. Forests turned into Digitized A.C. Classrooms, Life learnings which were practical are now shown through videos.
In this age of Digitization, we wanna talk about Virtual Reality (VR/AR) technology which brings a virtual subject into perpetual reality and drench individual into it. Here we wanna introduce you to a subject called “Spatial Memory”.
Spatial Memory
Spatial memory is a memory form which is responsible for recording information about spatial orientation and one’s environment. In simpler terms, it is just that our brain can remember the visual or pictorial description more than text.
Here we come with Virtual Reality devices which can give a real-time experience that can aid in productive learning at the same time.
If you provide knowledge within a 3D spatial structure, the brain retrieves and memorizes information in a quite easier way where the pace of learning will be much speedier than you can ever imagine.
University of Maryland researchers held in depth analysis on usage of virtual reality in Education and came to know that people remember information better if presented in a virtual environment.
There are plenty of ways in which the experiences of virtual reality can trick our brains to respond in a way like it is in real life. Thus the hype of VR is not just for its glamour but for the contribution it does in enterprise workforce, learning spaces etc. You will have more exposure to real time experience through the visualization effects created with virtual reality.
Hope, we witness the advanced education system when combined with the virtual reality which we are all dreaming of in the mere future. We shall make use of these technologies to give our children a bright and productive learning.
Just a reminder, any technology has its positive and negative possibilities. So let’s take an oath not to use any technology against ethical values.
