{"id":2379,"date":"2022-07-19T07:50:13","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T07:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diinsiderlife.com\/?p=2379"},"modified":"2022-08-10T21:58:48","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T21:58:48","slug":"360ed-myanmar-using-technology-to-advance-the-countrys-educational-system-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diinsiderlife.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/19\/360ed-myanmar-using-technology-to-advance-the-countrys-educational-system-2\/","title":{"rendered":"360ed Myanmar: Using Technology to Advance the Country\u2019s Educational System<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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In the past fifty years, Myanmar was trapped in a dictatorial regime and was isolated from the rest of the world. Its current antiquated educational system cannot prepare the young generation to solve new challenges and its teachers are not equipped to teach 21st century learning skills. Rote learning, a memorization<\/strong> technique based on repetition is the solution to its current educational problem yet it keeps students from being proactive and motivated learners and creative thinkers.<\/p>


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Evidence of successful educational reform from other developing countries suggests that a teacher\u2019s professional development is one of the most important levers for improving quality of education. In a developing country like Myanmar, there\u2019s a lack of knowledge, skills and expertise for developing teachers. Experiential learning and one-on-one mentoring with expert teachers are luxuries the country cannot afford. Although these practices are the most impactful, Myanmar faces limitations in both financial and skilled human resources.<\/p>\n

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Myanmar teacher uses traditional teaching in the classroom
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A Solution is Born<\/strong><\/p>


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In 2016, educator Hla Hla Win got selected to join the Global Solutions Program at Singularity University in the NASA Research Park in Silicon Valley. The Global Solutions Program selects 80 students out of 8000 applicants each year and the participants learn about new technologies, and intensively work together over the summer to start companies. It was then that a solution to Myanmar\u2019s current education system was born: 360ed Myanmar.<\/span><\/p>


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Hla Hla Win and her two co-founders, Laurent Boinot, and Perttu P\u00f6l\u00f6nen saw this potential for teacher training with the use of a new virtual reality (VR) technology. It has always been Hla Hla Win\u2019s dream to send Myanmar teachers to the best classrooms around the world and learn from the best teachers. They were able to achieve this by teleporting teachers through utilizing immersive technologies. <\/p>


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360ed Myanmar\u2019s mission is to leverage advances in virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR), and other education technologies to bring scalable, immediate, and exponential impact in transforming national education and beyond. In response to the lack of effectiveness of the typical rote learning model, they provide a vision of classrooms with more dynamic teaching practices for students to become more engaged and attentive to their learning opportunities. Their work is grounded in experimentation, innovation, collaborative partnerships and extended fieldwork. They are on a mission to educate teachers to teach 21st century skills and knowledge to their students and to empower students with new goals, dreams and opportunities, helped by digital tools and 21st century learning environments.<\/p>


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Teachers are using the virtual reality device on their training
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360ed\u2019s Virtual Reality Apps to Elevate Teacher Training to Worlds Best Practice Standards<\/strong><\/p>


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Designed to immerse teachers in the best learning classrooms in the world and give virtual first hand engagement with the teachers teaching them, 360ed\u2019s Virtual Reality apps have the potential to rapidly transform teacher training in Myanmar and to impact upon the quality of teaching in schools almost immediately.<\/p>


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Using a $2 cardboard headset, 360ed\u2019s VR solutions can instantly place a teacher from any school in Myanmar into the classroom in say Silicon Valley, or any other location, so they can experience best practices and teaching methods first hand. Instead of sending every teacher overseas to the centers of excellence for teaching, 360ed\u2019s technologies mean they can do this from their own classroom.<\/p>


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360ed\u2019s Augmented Reality Apps to Improve Student Engagement and Learning<\/strong><\/p>


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360ed\u2019s approach to student learning harnesses children’s play and curiosity by incorporating mobile devices into the everyday learning process by developing AR apps. These apps are aligned with the curriculum and dramatically expand the capability of current textbooks to be engaging and stimulating foundations for learning.<\/p>


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One of 360ed\u2019s tools to achieve the disruption of learning by rote and encourage a durable love of learning is its 3D visuals and 2D videos on Augmented Reality flashcards, which increase students\u2019 engagement, understanding, and memory.<\/p>\n

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