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Can VR Help Preserve and Teach Indigenous Culture?

From This Week with EdSurge · Hosted by Ira Apfel

February 27, 2024·38:58

Episode summary

In this episode of This Week with EdSurge: Could virtual reality be the key to teaching indigenous ways of knowing to a broad population of students? Jared Ten Brink, a doctoral student in education, is trying to record and teach some key practices of his tribal elders using VR video.

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Could virtual reality be the key to teaching indigenous ways of knowing to a broad population of students? Jared Ten Brink, a doctoral student in education, is trying to record and teach some key practices of his tribal elders using VR video.