Building the Eduverse: A Metaverse for Education

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Vriti Saraf
What exactly is the metaverse and how is it relevant to education? In this session, we will talk about how education can be enhanced by the metaverse and how educators can be at the cutting edge. We will discuss what the metaverse is and how it is changing the world.

Audience:	Chief technology officers/superintendents/school board members, Professional developers, Teachers
Skill level:	Beginner
Attendee devices:	Devices not needed
Topic:	Augmented, mixed & virtual reality
ISTE Standards:	For Education Leaders: Empowering Leader Empower educators to exercise professional agency, build teacher leadership skills and pursue personalized professional learning. Inspire a culture of innovation and collaboration that allows the time and space to explore and experiment with digital tools.

Proposal summary

Purpose & objective

The purpose of this session to help educators gain awareness of the cutting edge technology known as the metaverse and all components of it.

Participants will be able to define & identify the metaverse. Participants will be able to take action in becoming a part of the metaverse. Participants will be able to develop concepts for integrating the metaverse into their classroom.

Outline

Introduction to the metaverse (20 mins)
Examples of how the metaverse is changing online experiences (20 mins)
Ideas for how to join metaverse activities as an educator and as a student (20 mins)

Supporting research

https://www.matthewball.vc/all/forwardtothemetaverseprimer

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