Sorry I missed you guys last week - I was so eager to show off my skills as a VR trainer. Also, I can bring the Gear Headset & it's Oculus store anytime. I'd love for you guys to experience what is available on these devices & platforms. We played with the Gear at John's Youth City & we had to pry the kids away from their transformative experiences. Virtual & augmented reality are going to become far cheaper & much more mainstream within the next 12 months - especially as Google is going to release it's VR platform via Daydream, any day now.
Last week in the Schiffman selection, there was a section titled "Varieties of Human Capabilities." I imagine I wasn't the only one that wrote a big red question mark, followed by several exclamation points in the margin. Schiffman, who I believe is on the side of humanism & the teacher - as opposed to the shrill critics or anti-tech academics - . . . Schiffman writes that a knowledge of human capabilities supplies an instructional designer with certainty about what the instructional system needs. Below this, he writes,
"Training journals complain that classroom instruction does not transfer to on-the-job competence." (p 138)
Did you folks have a field day with that? I know it was written in 1995 & things have changed a lot since then. Who would have a better awareness of human capabilities - students are humans, right? - than a classroom instructor?!
Did you guys discuss that in class? Any commentary on that one?
Here's a sample of my on the job training:
Thanks,
Ry
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