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Reimagining Post-Pandemic Schooling
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The impact of virtual schooling en masse will not be felt until we leave it. Like virtual reality we will not be able to truly understand learning during the pandemic until we exit our educational lockdown and return to the brick-and-mortar classroom. But it remains to be seen if and when we will ever fully return. In this media literacy thought-piece, Dr. Vanessa E. Greenwood contemplates the Oculus Rift as an allegory for reimagining post-pandemic schooling in the United States. [Download Full-Text PDF]

The most amazing moment of virtual reality is when you leave it, not when you’re in it . . . You have really never seen reality until you’ve just come out of virtual reality.

JARON LANIER, VIRTUAL REALITY PIONEER
Reimagining Post-Pandemic Schooling