BBC Newsround｜虚拟现实走进课堂教学

The School Using Virtual Reality for Classroom Learning｜BBC  Newsround

As soon as we put the headsets on it just transports you to like a different world. I really like VR and how it lets us discover different places that we probably ain't discovered before.
一旦我们戴上头显，它就会把你带到一个不同的世界。我真的很喜欢虚拟现实，它让我们发现以前可能没有发现的不同地方。

Pupils at one primary school in Warwickshire are swimming with sharks, visiting the Egyptian pyramids and seeing Vincent van Gogh's famous paintings all without leaving their classrooms. It's thanks to virtual reality headsets which the school first started using during the coronavirus pandemic and they proved so successful that they've decided to keep them permanently. The technology has also helped the school children develop their English vocabulary as they have to describe what they've seen to their classmates.
沃里克郡一所小学的学生们不用离开教室就可以和鲨鱼一起游泳，参观埃及金字塔，欣赏文森特·梵高的名画。这要感谢学校在新冠肺炎疫情期间首次使用的虚拟现实头显，事实证明它们非常成功，所以学校决定永久保留它们。这项技术还帮助学校的孩子们发展他们的英语词汇，因为他们必须向同学描述他们所看到的。

(You're going to have a go at trying to draw what your partner told you they could see.) We're using the VRs to try and really get the children to look at the fine details and work move within the picture so they're able to really think about what it is that's there and be able to describe it in the best way that you can.
(你将尝试画出你的同伴告诉你他们能看到的东西）。我们使用虚拟现实来让孩子们观察画面中的小细节，并在画面中移动，这样他们就能真正思考画面中的内容，并用最好的方式来描述它。

It's really fun because you can do a lot of stuff with it, you can do it with art, with ICT, you can do a lot of things with it. I like VR because say we can't go to Disneyland because it would be too expensive, on the VR we could go to that place.
它真的很有趣，因为你可以用它做很多事情，包括艺术、信息和通信技术，你可以用它做很多事情。我喜欢虚拟现实，因为我们因迪斯尼乐园太贵了而不能去，但在虚拟现实里我们可以去那里。

In fact, the school isn't unfamiliar with the idea of being transported to a different world. Reading is something that is very important to everyone at the school and as you walk around the building, each area is themed around a different book. (We have Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, we have The Wizard of Oz, currently at the moment we are standing in Diagon Alley from Harry Potter.)
事实上，学校对穿越到另一个世界的概念并不陌生。阅读对学校的每一个人来说都非常重要，当你在教学楼里漫步时，每个区域都以不同的书为主题。（我们有《查理和巧克力工厂》、《绿野仙踪》，现在我们正站在哈利·波特的对角巷）。

The schools say that the headsets have helped boost the pupils' performance in class and And they're looking forward to helping the children carry on learning through the technology.
学校表示，耳机已帮助学生提升了课堂表现，他们期待着帮助孩子们通过这项技术继续学习。

词汇表
headset 头戴式显示器，头显
transport 运送，使产生身临其境的感觉
virtual reality(VR)  虚拟现实
pupil 学生，小学生
Warwickshire  沃里克郡（英格兰郡名）
Egyptian pyramids 埃及金字塔
Vincent van Gogh 文森特·梵高
coronavirus pandemic 新冠肺炎疫情期间
permanently 永久地，持久地
fine details 细微之处
ICT 信息与通信技术（information and communications technology）
theme （休闲场所、活动）以……主题
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 查理和巧克力工厂
The Wizard of Oz 绿野仙踪
Diagon Alley 对角巷（霍格沃茨魔法购买学习用品的地方）

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