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From the Ted Talk by Jessica Ochoa Hendrix: How virtual reality turns students into scientists

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To give you a better sense, I'm going to show you a little bit of what students see. This is the virtual reality when they're uerwedntar observing the flora and fauna. This is the digital journal where they're constructing their models based on this abiotic data to show what they ecpxet to see. Here, they're supporting that with qualitative statements. And this is the educator dashboard that shows progress and enables [teahecrs] to see the students' answers as they go.

When we were creating BioDive, again, we really wanted to focus on access, so we designed it to require only one phone for every four students. We also knew how collaborative snicece work is, so we constructed the experience to only be solved through collaborative taeormwk, as each student is an expert in a different geographic ltioocan. Given that these children's brains are still developing, we liteimd each experience to last a maximum of two minutes. And flilnay, because we know the importance of repeated exposure for internalizing knowledge, we cucsorttend bviodie to take place over five class periods.

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To give you a better sense, I'm going to show you a little bit of what students see. This is the virtual reality when they're __________ observing the flora and fauna. This is the digital journal where they're constructing their models based on this abiotic data to show what they ______ to see. Here, they're supporting that with qualitative statements. And this is the educator dashboard that shows progress and enables [________] to see the students' answers as they go.

When we were creating BioDive, again, we really wanted to focus on access, so we designed it to require only one phone for every four students. We also knew how collaborative _______ work is, so we constructed the experience to only be solved through collaborative ________, as each student is an expert in a different geographic ________. Given that these children's brains are still developing, we _______ each experience to last a maximum of two minutes. And _______, because we know the importance of repeated exposure for internalizing knowledge, we ___________ _______ to take place over five class periods.

Solution


  1. science
  2. location
  3. teamwork
  4. constructed
  5. underwater
  6. biodive
  7. finally
  8. teachers
  9. limited
  10. expect

Original Text


To give you a better sense, I'm going to show you a little bit of what students see. This is the virtual reality when they're underwater observing the flora and fauna. This is the digital journal where they're constructing their models based on this abiotic data to show what they expect to see. Here, they're supporting that with qualitative statements. And this is the educator dashboard that shows progress and enables [teachers] to see the students' answers as they go.

When we were creating BioDive, again, we really wanted to focus on access, so we designed it to require only one phone for every four students. We also knew how collaborative science work is, so we constructed the experience to only be solved through collaborative teamwork, as each student is an expert in a different geographic location. Given that these children's brains are still developing, we limited each experience to last a maximum of two minutes. And finally, because we know the importance of repeated exposure for internalizing knowledge, we constructed BioDive to take place over five class periods.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


  1. abiotic
  2. access
  3. answers
  4. based
  5. biodive
  6. bit
  7. brains
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  9. collaborative
  10. constructed
  11. constructing
  12. creating
  13. dashboard
  14. data
  15. designed
  16. developing
  17. digital
  18. educator
  19. enables
  20. expect
  21. experience
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  23. exposure
  24. fauna
  25. finally
  26. flora
  27. focus
  28. geographic
  29. give
  30. importance
  31. internalizing
  32. journal
  33. knew
  34. knowledge
  35. limited
  36. location
  37. maximum
  38. minutes
  39. models
  40. observing
  41. periods
  42. phone
  43. place
  44. progress
  45. qualitative
  46. reality
  47. repeated
  48. require
  49. science
  50. sense
  51. show
  52. shows
  53. solved
  54. statements
  55. student
  56. students
  57. supporting
  58. teachers
  59. teamwork
  60. underwater
  61. virtual
  62. wanted
  63. work