Describe your ideal school in a post – what would you change from what you have experienced to date at Heritage Woods? What would the building look like, the courses offered and the style of learning – do you like the present style or would you like more choice? Include images to help you explain your points.

I have been a student of Heritage Woods Secondary for 2 months. I enjoyed the school, the teachers and the classes, but I would like to propose a few enchantments that can be implemented in the future. In our current learning system, the students are confined to their desks the whole day, so I propose we use kinesthetic learning to make sure everyone is physically engaged in the lesson using kinesthetic learning.

Kinesthetic learning comes with a lot of benefits. This article[1] says “Kinesthetic learning has the advantage of letting children gain self-knowledge by letting them learn at their own comfort level, confidence level and with their own creative potentials. With this style of learning, children are also engaged in positive social interaction, develop problem-solving skills and can apply creativity through self-expression”. Another article[2] says “With the added benefits of physical movement such as exercise, kinesthetic learning appeals not only to those to whom it comes naturally but also to anyone looking for ways to improve their intelligence. If we also see results in how our body changes with exercise, we have another positive reinforcement from kinesthetic learning.”

They way to implement Kinesthetic learning in our school is using advanced Virtual Reality (VR) set for every student. The virtual reality set will help simulate a learning environment that makes learning enjoyable for every student. A few ways we could use virtual reality to teach are:

• Using VR to learn foreign language by having a simulated discussion with a native speaker in difference situations[2]
• Using VR to learn social by being present in historic event and watch them as if you were there[3]
• Using VR in PE by simulating being in physical events like the Olympics[4]

Another benefit of using the VR learning system, it will be easy to add more courses because the teacher don’t actually need to teach. You can learn anytime you wanted to.
For example, our current P.E. curriculum is centered around team sports like, basketball, baseball, soccer, etc… while developing the team spirit in all of those activities is a great benefit, I would like to see more “dangerous” sport activities which we can not practice in real life, like:bullfighting and running obstacle courses.

To accommodate for the new learning system, a few architectural changes will be needed. When people have their VR set on, they are not aware of their surroundings, therefore we have to make more spaces in classrooms so people don’t crash into walls or other students.

Since all the learning and physical activities will make student hungry, I would like to see the school having two cafeterias instead of just one that we have today. This will allow for shorter line-ups which means less time wasted in line and more time spent learning, as well as a bigger variety of food to choose from.

To conclude,
In my ideal school, we take advantage of technology to make learning enjoyable and efficient. We will have immersive learning environment, lots of subject to choose from while enjoying our time at school.

[1] https://www.timeshighereducation.com/student/advice/student-blog-should-students-choose-their-course-content#survey-answer
[2] https://theblog.adobe.com/virtual-reality-will-change-learn-teach/
[3] http://www.classvr.com/school-curriculum-content-subjects/historical-times-lessons/
[4] https://pecircle.wordpress.com/2016/08/24/virtual-reality-in-pe/