The conclusion was that not only was the virtual frog dissection program more effective, but the learning was accomplished in 44% less time. study compared the effectiveness of wet labs to the use of a virtual frog dissection program. In essence, you can keep rewinding a procedure until you’re good at it.” So why not in high school biology? It's effectiveĪ recent Ph.D. says “A virtual environment is very forgiving, You can practice all you want you can fumble all you want you can kill a ‘patient’ repeatedly, learning from your mistakes. Alan Liu, Ph.D., a research scientist for virtual reality at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) in Bethesda, Md. Nancy Harrison, a practicing pathologist in California asserts that cutting up preserved frogs bears little relation to cutting human flesh and is therefore of no educational value for aspiring doctors.Įven medical schools are embracing virtual training. Interestingly, many doctors are also opposed to dissection in schools. Proponents of traditional dissection often lose sight of the reason for dissecting in the first place-to learn anatomy and physiology, not to learn dissection skills. While that may be true for a small number of students, mounting evidence suggests that virtual dissection programs such as The Digital Frog are just as good, if not a better way to learn anatomy and physiology than tradtional dissections. Many biology teachers believe that dissection is still the best way to learn biology. You'll miss the smell of formaldehyde A virtual dissection as good as, or better, than the real thing As teachers and parents know, dissections can present a risk to student safety due to: risk of being cut by a scalpel, risk of infection, and exposure to formaldehyde - which can damage the eyes, cause asthma attacks, and bronchitis.A virtual frog dissection so close to the real thing, Furthermore, these dissections can only take place once a year and cannot be “redone” if a student makes a mistake.ĭissections in VR are a safe alternative.
Over a 5 year period, a single classroom will spend over $4000 just to dissect frogs. Schools can save on the expensive annual costs of animal acquisition without causing harm to a single creature by using dissections in virtual reality. Lifelike physical models mean that the frog appears as it would in a real dissection allowing science teachers to feel good about substituting virtual reality for the real thing. The dissection experience is recreated to the finest detail so that they are a suitable substitute for the real thing in a classroom. Along the way, a hologram of our teacher - national runner-up Teacher of the Year, Wendy Martin - will pop up to provide instruction and information to users.Īn Authentic Science Experience Aligned to National Learning Standards: All of the instruction follows the Next Generations Science Standards (NGSS), the national science standards for the United States. This true to life experience covers each step that a student would take if they were dissecting a real frog in their classroom.
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Learning can take place anytime, anywhere: VictoryVR’s virtual reality frog dissection software is a hands-on dissection opportunity that users can experience through the power of virtual reality. Learn the fundamentals of the female frog anatomy in a fully immersive virtual reality experience. Join Wendy Martin, a national award-winning science teacher, to make Ribbit-ing Discoveries in this virtual reality Frog Dissection.
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