Mobile Virtual Reality (VR) Lab

GPB EDUCATION

GPB EDUCATION SHARES THE FUTURE OF LEARNING WITH STUDENTS THROUGHOUT GEORGIA

Students across Georgia are being transported in space and time through cutting edge technology, thanks to a visit from GPB Education’s Mobile Virtual Reality (VR) Lab, an initiative made possible by the Imlay Foundation.

Continuing our mission to provide quality, no-cost digital content and recognizing the exciting educational opportunities available through VR, GPB Education has produced new Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE)-aligned resources in partnership with the Georgia Department of Education, the Telfair Museums and the Georgia Forestry Foundation. To provide Georgia’s students the opportunity to try out this immersive, engaging technology, the GPB Mobile VR Lab is bringing GPB Education’s Virtual Learning Journeys into middle and high school classrooms throughout the state.

Thus far, the lab has shared VR with nearly 1500 students and educators in 13 schools and at 11 professional development events around the state and is scheduled to visit 19 more through December 2022.

Ashley Porter, Education and Production Assistant, and Bethanie Boswell, Education Technology Specialist, share learning in virtual reality with teachers and students throughout Georgia.

Two students at Oglethorpe County Middle School explore GPB Education’s Civil Rights Movement virtual learning journey together.

The Mobile VR Lab is the first exposure that many students have to virtual reality, but it almost certainly won’t be the last. Students overwhelmingly agree that VR makes learning more interesting and that they’d like to use it again, saying they love “the way it feels realistic and so detailed” and “it can help people learn more because VR makes it fun!”

Teachers find that a visit from the VR lab “really gets the students excited about learning and participating.” They appreciate “the chance to give students the opportunity to experience learning in a way that is new and innovative.”

VR AR

Teachers and students can also experience GPB’s original VR content by downloading our VR|AR app, or by going to gpb.org/vr.