{"id":1513,"date":"2025-08-11T14:12:40","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T14:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fi\/1513\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T14:12:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T14:12:40","slug":"virtual-reality-in-the-classroom-watch-the-video-and-travel-to-the-international-space-station-mun-oulu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fi\/1513\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual reality in the classroom \u2013 watch the video and travel to the International Space Station \u2013 Mun Oulu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An immersive classroom was created last year at the Talvikangas School by headmaster <strong>Markku Vetel\u00e4inen<\/strong> who strongly advocates its benefits.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dIt is the future of education. Every day I put the VR headset on, it is a new experience. I can go out of school and see ancient Rome, for example,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>Talvikangas School has over 750 students and the VR space accommodates up to eight students at a time \u2013 so not everybody has yet experienced VR. But teachers plan to give each student at least one immersive teaching session by the end of the spring term.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dFacts get engraved in your head\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Subjects taught by VR include history, literature and science \u2013 and even physical exercise to help youngsters let off steam at break time.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the students who have tried VR learning say they enjoyed the experience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dYou remember facts more easily \u2013 they really get engraved in your head,\u201d says <strong>Veikka<\/strong>, 15, after learning about gravity at the International Space Station during a VR physics lesson.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dReading from a book is boring: it is lines of text and no one wants to do that,\u201d concludes Veikka with his classmates nodding in agreement.<\/p>\n<p>VR space open for other schools as well<\/p>\n<p>According to teacher <strong>Juuso H\u00e4nninen<\/strong>, VR is an important addition to a wide variety of teaching tools and methods.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dNothing works for everyone. We have to have different types of teaching and learning so we can offer everyone something that suits them,\u201d he explains.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dWe want to give a new experience to all the students and perhaps even inspire some of them to have a career in 3D.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Buoyed by positive feedback from students, the Talvikangas School is keen to make the VR space available to students from other schools in Oulu.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dI want everybody to have this experience\u201d, states headmaster Markku Vetel\u00e4inen with a determined smile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An immersive classroom was created last year at the Talvikangas School by headmaster Markku Vetel\u00e4inen who strongly advocates&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[33,31,30,32,91,92,424,422,423],"class_list":{"0":"post-1513","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-virtuaalitodellisuus","8":"tag-fi","9":"tag-finland","10":"tag-finnish","11":"tag-suomi","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-teknologia","14":"tag-virtuaalitodellisuus","15":"tag-virtual-reality","16":"tag-vr"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}