LAS CRUCES - Students in Las Cruces are getting a glimpse this week at what classrooms of the future may look like, and the role virtual reality may play in education.
Late last week, Lisa McCuller, a special education teacher at Arrowhead Park Early College High School, received last-minute notice that a representative from Google Expeditions would be available to demonstrate the company’s virtual reality application for classrooms to students of Arrowhead Park. That was Thursday. They arrived Friday.
“I attended a conference in El Paso with Jaime Casap, the head education evangelist for Google,” McCuller said. “He mentioned the opportunity with Google Expeditions, so we applied for it. We did not get accepted the first time, but got accepted the second time.”
Teachers scrambled to come up with ways to apply Google Expeditions to their lessons. Reyes Duran, who is teaching Shakespeare to her English IV class, took her students to experience the Globe Theater in London. Lynette Defreitas, who teaches English II, took her students to explore the Roman ruins. Cheryl Fallstead, who teaches photography and Photoshop, took her class to participate in a career-oriented expedition dedicated to the role of a museum photographer.
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