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Virtual labs feel like a bad video game
Title (Dublin Core)
Virtual labs feel like a bad video game
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Description (Dublin Core)
I'm currently adjusting to virtual lab for an upper-division physiology course, and my class is using a program called Labster for simulations. Picture a 2010's era, first-person video game where you are walked through 'levels' of the lab by a floating robot overlord called Dr. One. You get to put on a virtual lab coat, use a virtual iPad, and interact with virtual lab equipment. I've done experiments on computerized lab-rats, teleported into mitochondria, and clicked my way through the Krebs cycle. It feels very dystopian and unsettling, and would be funny if I wasn't being charged full tuition for what boils down to a Portal-2 knock-off without the cool aliens. Sometimes it's nice not having to commute to school. But mostly, I miss real lab and the feeling that I'm learning something meaningful by being in class.
Date (Dublin Core)
August 30, 2020
Creator (Dublin Core)
Labster.com
Contributor (Dublin Core)
Kelly Lindemann
Event Identifier (Dublin Core)
H396
Partner (Dublin Core)
University of San Francisco
Type (Dublin Core)
Photograph and text story
Link (Bibliographic Ontology)
Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)
English
Education--Universities
English
Emotion
English
Technology
Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)
virtual lab
unsettling
Labster
physiology
simulation
Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)
education
online learning
missing
Collection (Dublin Core)
San Francisco Bay Area
Linked Data (Dublin Core)
Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
08/30/2020
Date Modified (Dublin Core)
09/06/2020
Date Created (Dublin Core)
08/30/2020
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This item was submitted on August 30, 2020 by Kelly Lindemann using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive
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