Five government schools in Chennai take ‘Metaverse’ course to learning-The New Indian Express

Express News Service

CHENNAI: The State school training office, alongside a confidential VR and AR startup, on Monday sent off ‘Meta Kalvi/program under which computer generated reality (VR) labs were made in two company schools and three government schools in Triplicane constituency.

The drive targets assisting understudies with envisioning hypothetical ideas and comprehend them without any problem.

The project was sent off in the metaverse at Lady Willingdon College in the virtual presence of DMK patriarch M Karunanidhi and CM MK Stalin. Chennai Central MP Dayanidhi Maran, School Education Minister Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi and Chepauk-Triplicane MLA Udhayanidhi Stalin were actually present at the occasion.

Under the venture, science and math illustrations for Classes VI to VIII have been changed over into computer generated reality modules, showed both in English and Tamil language. Meynikara, a VR and AR startup based out of Chennai, has assisted the instruction division with sending off the venture under its CSR drive.

“The lessons that are currently available in VR mode include composition of rockets, solar system, galaxies, atomic structure and other molecules. Students can perform exercises such as assembling the rockets themselves after each lesson in virtual reality. After getting feedback from these five schools, the project will be expanded to other schools,” Meynikara organizer R Raghuraman said.

The ‘Meta Kalvi’ project plans to upset opportunity for growth of understudies and tuition based schools are supposed to embrace the innovation rapidly. Instructors will be prepared first and they can survey understudies. Individual dashboards will be given to every understudy to follow progress.

Initially, 20 VR headsets alongside joysticks were given to the five schools. The headsets accompany six inbuilt modules, three each in science and math.

“We were able to see the solar system close. We could even zoom and see the number of rings on planets. It was a new experience for us and we were able to understand them better,” said Christina, a Class 8 understudy of Lady Willingdon Government Higher Secondary School.

The project is supposed to help to upgrading understudies’ advantage in learning. “What is difficult now is not teaching but kindling the interest of students and building their creativity. We hope this project will reduce the dropout rate,” said Ganeshram, prime supporter of Meynikara.

While the undertaking was begun in one body electorate, the school training division centers around further developing STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) schooling and expanding this task across the State, said Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi. He asked private firms to support VR labs in government schools.

“From Periyar to Anna to Karunanidhi and Stalin, the one thing they taught us is to take education to underprivileged. That is what we are following. We are happy this initiative is started in a government school,” said Udhayanidhi Stalin.