How Dallas Independent School District Students Are Learning in the Metaverse
On March 18, 2020, with the coronavirus rampant, Dallas Independent School District Superintendent Michael Hinojosa shut down in-person learning temporarily.
The world is based on Dallas, so students would see the American Airlines Center and different pieces of the Dallas skyline. While they wait for class to start, the students can drive cars through the world or play games. Right now, these game points can be used to upgrade their avatars, but the plan is to allow students to convert those points into a digital currency that students could earn through participating in school.“It sounds completely disruptive and different from the way the classroom works today,” Shead said.
DISD is an anomaly in that it's been able to provide some of these programs to students with the highest need. “But, they shouldn’t be an anomaly,” she said. Students on the platform went on to earn $1.7 million from summer internships, Shead said. The program also saw increases in the number of DISD graduates who completed post-secondary degrees six years after graduation.
One thing Shead was tasked with was community engagement for the plan. “I told them, ‘Look, you all may not know this, but there are many people in our Dallas community who do not have Wi-Fi at home,’” she said.“But the question that we all asked ourselves was, what happens after you get them connected online?” Shead recalled.Between March 18 and June 1, 2020, the STEMuli team built a virtual platform on top of the PTECH program and launched it for all DISD summer programs.
Mike Morath, Texas’ education commissioner, has said the biggest problem facing Texas is learning loss caused by the pandemic. They thought making the learning experience more like a video game could change this. What they’ve seen so far from their platform is more engagement from the students, Shead said.
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