U4 Extended Writing: Informative Essay Supporting Details

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• “A new classroom being tested out this year at Harvard Business School could offer a prescient glimpse into what education could soon become.
  
  Rather than walking into a building and sitting at desks, students tune in from home to Harvard’s ‘virtual classroom.’ In the class—called ‘HBX Live!’—up to 60 students from all around the world can be in a class ‘together’ at once, watching their professor, who stands in a soundproof studio on Harvard’s campus” (“Classroom 2.0”).

• “Eric Weimerskirch is a sixth grade social studies teacher from Pittsburgh. He thinks VR can expose students to diverse communities. It may even help them see beyond stereotypes. ‘This would be a great way to meet a child from another country without telling them beforehand what religion or nationality they are,’ Weimerskirch told public radio station WESA. ‘I think that would open their eyes’ (“Relearning History”).

• “‘Mixed Reality’ VR facilities are training new army medics in the United Kingdom Armed Forces. Trainee medics enter mock inflatable helicopters complete with a life-like medical dummy. They put on VR headsets and treat the dummy patients. Professor Bob Stone of the University of Birmingham says that this training program ‘costs about 90 percent less’ and is ‘safer’ than other programs” (“Virtual Revolution”).

• “Doctors like Jose Luis Mosso Vazquez have experimented with giving patients VR experiences during procedures. Patients using VR during surgery reported 24 percent less pain and anxiety. This could have major applications for low-cost surgeries and hospitals in remote areas. It could bypass expensive and inaccessible anesthesia” (“Virtual Revolution”).

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