Virtual Reality And How We Can Use It In Education

          Virtual reality is a environment that you can contact with other people in virtual world. There are some programs that you can experience this environment. Most of them are game based programs. It is great that they are professionally game based programs because this feature makes them both for children and adults.

          I tried ‘Second Life’ for now, but there are other options that you can use. For example, there is another program as ‘Avakin Life’. Its concept is almost same with ‘Second Life’. Another example is ‘Stardoll’ which is much more childish version compared to others.

         The common feature of all these programs is they give you the chance to interact with other

people in other places. The only thing you do is to go to the site (or download the program if it’s necessary), then to register and to create your own character/avatar as you wish. Then you can do almost everything that you do in real life. For example; you can hang out with your friends, go to a party, travel around the city or abroad, meet with new people etc. When you sign in the game, I mean when you are online, other people see it, so you can communicate with other online people and have a real chat.

         We can use these features for education. We can meet at a place (in the game) with our teacher and classmates and have a lesson online. It lets us reach to the lesson from whereever we want, in any terms and even clothings we want. It is also great chance for students who are too shy to attend to the lesson. As no one sees each other with real faces, everyone can talk however they want with their virtual character.

          It also give chance to attend to the lesson for disabled students who struggles with coming to the school.

        The people who lives away from each other also can benefit from this technology. When meeting in real life is not possibble or easy, students, techers or students and teachers can have a meeting in virtual life.

         Language students also can use these world to improve their language skills by communicating with foreigner people around the world.