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Shiftheads - This School Trains Shop Class in Virtual Reality First
Before a single grade eight student in Ontario touches a lathe, they're putting on a VR headset and learning a machine shop that isn't real yet. Kris Abel walks through the first school in the country to try it, plus a zoo with no live animals and a soccer match played entirely by humanoid robots.
VR Before the Real Machines
Kris Abel explains how Fletcher Creek Senior Public School built a virtual machine shop so students learn safety habits, like putting on glasses before a machine starts, without any real risk. He also shares what growing up in his father's machine shop taught him about…
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