Virtual Reality with A Focus on Preserving Black History & The Metaverse

Virtual Reality with A Focus on Preserving Black History & The Metaverse
William Jackson, M.Ed. (My Quest To Teach) and Aida Correa Jackson (LoveBuilt Life, LLC)
ASALH Speakers MetaverseWP.com
William myquesttoteach@gmail.com and Aida heisintheart@gmail.com


Facts about Metaverse and Virtual Reality in the Instructional Realm
* Digital is the new norm for education, if schools are not
implementing VR and Metaverse technologies they are putting
their students at a disadvantage not just with skills, but
understanding the nomenclature or languages of tech.
* Digital and VR takes learning to the next level to learning, creativity
and innovation. Schools are not advocating for creativity and
innovation in the classroom as they should, metaverse education
provides an opportunity to encourage increased creativity and
innovation. Using memorization, substantial testing and the fear
of “learning loss” has deadened education and the very foundation
of learning.

* Digital and VR students can access multiple ways of engagement
and learning. Access to learning materials, reading incentives that
guide comprehension, learning connections, critical thinking and
applying in real world situations what is learned not just for a test.
* Digital and Virtual students are not captured by traditional teaching methodologies. The learning needs to be engaging, immersive and
virtual not just visually, but auditory and experiencing changes to environments and attitudes.
* Students are already exposed to virtual environments through
gaming with Minecraft and Roblox. Using the metaverse and
immersive environments helps make learning, discovery,
exploration and creativity choices and decision that impact
practical skills and knowledge.
* The expansion from gaming to learning is not a complicated
process, it can be an easy transition to move forward.

* The safety aspect is that devices can be “locked” where
students cannot go beyond the instructional directions.
The ability to help students take “ownership” of their
learning is powerful.
* Teachers and administration have a gradual learning
curve with learning and becoming familiar with the
projects and continued instructional content development
and implementation.
* Content is multi-layered synchronous and asynchronous.
Whether the instructional leader (teacher) is directly present
or not does not change or influence the opportunities for
cognitive growth, maturity and understanding.

* Students can go on global field trips that are 360 degrees,
this makes physical traveling as a supplement to instruction.
When students can interact in their environments this creates
a digital foundation to allowing the instruction to be powered
not just by the human element but by the digital influences
of the metaverse and immersive environments.

* Instruction through VR can be in multiple languages
that support the diversity of the classrooms. When students
hear or see their native language it provides avenues of pride,
empowerment, engagement, and acceptance of cultural
connections directly related to the student.
* There are thousands of global field trips that students and
teachers can attend that are available and cost effective
and physically safe, but engaging and interactive.
* The 360-degree immersive environment is a visual
representation of wherever the learning can be conducted.
It is an amazing experience where most students will never
physically attend.
* The experiences of dissection, amputation, surgery, and
exploration cuts out the smell, mess,
fuss and yucky components of dissecting frogs, fish,
pigs and even humans.
* VXR Web is an interactive platform with laptops that ?
can be used instead of the headsets.

Resources:
VictoryXR
  https://www.victoryxr.com/
EngageVR https://engagevr.io/
Spatial  https://www.spatial.io/
Brown Bears Spatial Gallery
https://www.spatial.io/s/BCA-2023-Brown-Bears-64c9c0096a0e3f017a7c2674?share=2041620804339863274
MetaverseWP https://metaversewp.com/

Speakers Information:

William Jackson, M.Ed. My Quest To Teach & MetaverseWP
33 years in public, higher education, past instructor with
NASA and Florida Dept of Education,
Member of World Metaverse Council,
The Ones and Los Unos Black & Hispanic Male Educators,
Member of the WordPress/WordCamp Community
Twitter @myquesttoteach IG @myquesttoteach TicTok @myquesttoteach Blog myquesttoteach.com

Prof. Aida Correa Jackson, Lenoir Rhyne University (DEI)
LoveBuilt Life, LLC Artist, Author, Florist, NFT Artist,
Certified VR Educator, Member of World Metaverse Council,
Member of the WordPress/WordCamp Community,
Member of the ED3 DAO
Twitter @lovebuiltlife IG @lovebuiltlife TicTok @lovebuiltlife Blog lovebuiltlife.com

Publications Posted:
Africa.com – https://www.africa.com/?s=William+Jackson
Africa on the Blog – https://africaontheblog.org/
Modern Ghana –  https://www.modernghana.com/author/WilliamJackson
Jacksonville Free Press – https://jacksonvillefreepress.com/?s=william+jackson
The Florida Star – https://www.thefloridastar.com/

 

Preserving Black History on the Metaverse Using Immersive Technologies

Preserving Black History on the Metaverse Using Immersive Technologies
William Jackson, M.Ed. CEO My Quest To Teach & World Metaverse Member

The controversies about the value of Black History in the
educational systems nationally are not new. There have
always been the attempts to change, water-down, deflect,
marginalize, and even hide the truths of the contributions
of Blacks in the history books of American schools and
other educational institutions. The acts of slavery has
erroneously and slanderously been shown to be
beneficial to those brought over from Africa and the
Caribbean, shackled in chains, beaten, raped, tortured,
and otherwise dehumanized. There was nothing
beneficial to slaves from slavery.

Using the Swahili word “gjenge” which when translated
means “to build yourself.’ The coming ASALH  conference https://tinyurl.com/4spkvpvh in Jacksonville, Florida will
address multiple issues regarding Black History, Black
Excellence, Black Values, Black Education, Black
Economics and other important areas of knowledge
and heritage. Blacks must always seek “to build yourself.”
One area of understanding is how the Metaverse and
immersive technologies can help extend and re-vitalize
Black History by sharing the blending of Black History
that is available on the Metaverse and its ability to be a
learning experience in the immersive environments digitally.

William and Aida Jackson, Certified VR Educators,
members of the World Metaverse Council and advocates
of STEAM+M, AI and VR are teaching the use of virtual
reality using headsets, Smartphones, laptops, and other
devices that can be used to transport Black’s back in
time to see and hear people like Dr. Martin Luther King’s
speeches. “Now Is The Time” a VR experience
https://tinyurl.com/yayx5upe the Time Studios’ project
“The March 360” and transformative learning experiences.

The metaverse is influencing the direction of school
curriculums, state standards for instruction and the
accuracy of historical evidence. History should never
be changed, modified, and skewed to meet political
agendas. The Metaverse allows for broad-based
engagement and immersive engagements that allow
the viewer to be involved, engaged and learning.
There is a strategic process to bring Black History to
a level of immersive engagement like never before.

Technologies can promote a more comprehensive
education of Black History among young people,
each generation is influenced creatively, the technology
is innovative and far reaching to build learning opportunities.
Virtual Reality is bringing learning to life, results from
VictoryXR show that virtual reality demonstrably has an
effect on students’ learning retention by 70 to 90%
improvements (East Carolina University in 2018).

Morehouse College launched its first Black History course
in the Metaverse in 2022, taking students on a slave ship
(Amistad), and the Civil War and World War I battlegrounds
where Black soldiers fought. Throughout history Blacks
have made historic, revolutionary, and evolutionary
additions to the establishment of the United States of
America. Blacks have contributed to every aspect of
national and global inventions and innovation, but
where is this in history books?

There are approximately more than 400 million metaverse
users per month, and metaverse sites number in the
thousands provide an immersive experience that is memorable
and applicable. The movement towards immersive environments
is growing and engaging in new directions for educational
pivoting, changing, evolution and growth. Educational
engagements with learning are being influenced this year
in schools like Becoming Collegiate Academy the first school
in Jacksonville that has a Metaverse site
https://tinyurl.com/yc62pe8m for educational usage.
They are learning Black History with video, metaverse and
vr access. Jacksonville is slow to adopt and adapt to the
usage of immersive educational environments for education.

Because of the lack of knowledge and experiences and trained
staff this will be a slow process. Schools like Twin Lakes Academy
Middle School https://tinyurl.com/2wbzy6sx
are using tech by managing a Newspaper, Podcast and Metaverse
clubs to share content with the community about what is happening
weekly at the school. The positive impact of VR technology on
students’ learning is not confined to just one subject area, or
one classroom.

The access to Immersive and VR experiences are important and
life changing. Benefits have been demonstrated in nearly all other
areas of learning including foreign languages, problem solving,
critical thinking, the arts, and social sciences and Black and Hispanic
History importantly. ASALH is in a position where using VR and the
Metaverse bring empowerment and engagement to a new level of
learning and understanding.

Meta-analysis found that “[Virtual Reality]” students express a
greater level of confidence in completing learning tasks and
understanding historical information longer because of the
immersive environment. Statistically significant differences
existed in exam pass rates between VR students and non-VR
students, with VR students earning higher scores. Lets move
Black History on the Metaverse so the truth can be seen, heard,
engaged and learned by new generations. Black History instruction
can improve with engagement and immersion benefitting,
Black and Hispanic students and those that thirst for truth
and relevance.

William and Aida Jackson will be presenting:
“Preserving Black History On The Metaverse Using
Immersive Technologies.”
The ASALH conference is September 19th to 24th in Jacksonville, Florida https://asalh.org/  

To see the works of the metaverse by My Quest to Teach and https://MetaverseWP.com/

ASALH Preserving Black History on the Metaverse Using Immersive Technologies

ASALH Preserving Black History on the Metaverse
Using Immersive Technologies
William Jackson, M.Ed.
CEO My Quest To Teach & MetaverseWP & World Metaverse Member

The controversies about the value of Black History in
the educational systems are not new. There have always
been the attempts to change, water-down, deflect,
marginalize, and even hide the truths of the contributions
of Blacks in the history books of American schools.

The act of slavery has erroneously been shown to be
beneficial to those brought over from Africa and the
Caribbean, shackled in chains, beaten, raped, tortured,
and otherwise dehumanized. There was nothing beneficial
to slaves from slavery. Blacks benefitted nothing.

The coming ASALH  conference
https://asalh.org/calendar/108th-annual-meeting-and-conference/
in Jacksonville, Florida will address multiple issues regarding Black
History, Black Excellence, Black Values, Black Education, Black
Economics and other important areas of knowledge and heritage.
One area of understanding is how the Metaverse and immersive
technologies can help extend and re-vitalize Black History by sharing
the blending of Black History that is available on the Metaverse and
its ability to be a learning experience in the immersive environments
digitally.

William and Aida Jackson, Certified VR Educators, members of the
World Metaverse Council and advocates of STEAM+M, AI and VR
are teaching the use of virtual reality using headsets, phones,
laptops and other devices that can be used to transport Black’s
back in time to see and hear people like Dr. Martin Luther King’s
speeches. “Now Is The Time” a VR experience
https://about.meta.com/community/vr-for-good/mlk-now-is-the-time/ 
via the Time Studios’ project “The March 360” and transformative
learning experiences.  The metaverse is influencing the direction
of school curriculums, state standards for instruction and the
accuracy of historical evidence.

History should never be changed, modified, and skewed to meet
political agendas. The Metaverse allows for broad-based engagement
and immersive engagements that allow the viewer to be involved,
engaged and learning. This is not relevant to gaming, it is not impactful
to earning high scores or conquering levels, there is a strategic
process to bring Black History to a level of immersive engagement
like never before.


Technologies can promote a more comprehensive education of
Black History among young people, each generation is influenced
creatively, the technology is innovative and far reaching to build
learning opportunities. Virtual Reality is bringing learning to life,
results from VictoryXR show that virtual reality demonstrably has
an effect on students’ learning retention by 70 to 90% improvements
(East Carolina University in 2018).
Morehouse College launched its first Black History course in the
Metaverse in 2022, taking students on a slave ship (Amistad), and
the Civil War and World War I battlegrounds where Black soldiers
fought bravely and valiantly.

Throughout history Blacks have made historic, revolutionary, and
evolutionary additions to the establishment of the United States
of America. Blacks have contributed to every aspect of national
and global inventions and innovation, but where is this
in history books?
There are approximately more than 400 million metaverse users
per month, and metaverse sites number in the thousands provide
an immersive experience that is memorable and applicable.
The movement towards immersive environments is growing and
engaging in new directions for educational pivoting, changing,
evolution and growth.

Educational engagements with learning are being influenced
this year in schools like Becoming Collegiate Academy the first
school in Jacksonville that has a Metaverse site
https://tinyurl.com/yc62pe8m for educational instruction.

Jacksonville is slow to adopt and adapt to the usage of immersive
educational environments for education. Because of the lack of
knowledge and experiences and trained staff this will be a
slow process. Schools like Twin Lakes Academy Middle School
are using tech by managing a Newspaper, Podcast and Metaverse
clubs to share content with the community about what is happening
weekly at the school.

This will be their 3rd year and the positive impact of VR technology on students’ learning is not confined to just one subject area, or one
classroom. Benefits have been demonstrated in nearly all other areas
of learning including foreign languages, problem solving, critical thinking,
the arts, and social sciences and Black and Hispanic History importantly.

Meta-analysis found that “[Virtual Reality]” students express a greater
level of confidence in completing learning tasks and understanding
historical information longer because of the immersive environment. Statistically significant differences existed in exam pass rates between
VR students and non-VR students, with VR students earning higher
scores. Lets move Black History on the Metaverse so the truth can
be seen, heard, engaged and learned by new generations.

Black History instruction can improve with engagement and
immersion benefitting, Black and Hispanic students and those
that thirst for truth and relevance.

The ASALH conference is September 19th to 24th in
Jacksonville, Florida https://asalh.org/

African Union Day Celebrations 2023

African Union Day Celebrations 2023
“Building The Africa We Want To See and Empower !!!”
9th September 2023
African Union https://au.int/en

#AUDAY
#AfricaUnionDay
#AfricanUnion
#wordcampmasaka
#wordcampjinja
#wordcampegypt
#wordcampuganda
#wordcampkampala
#wordcampkenya
#wordcamplagos
#wordcampnigeria
#wordcampafrica
#myquesttoteach


We are building Metaverse African WordCamp Galleries for
conferences on the metaverse. 

https://metaversewp.com/  
What is the African Union
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oVfnmP4HK8

Jacksonville Educator Speaks at Power of Africa 2023 Virtual Conference

Jacksonville Educator Speaks at Power of Africa 2023 Virtual Conference
William Jackson, M.Ed. Member of The Ones Black and Hispanic Male
Educators of Duval County Public Schools and World Metaverse Council

William Jackson, retired educator from Duval County Public Schools has
always shared educational empowerment tools and resources involving
technology to inspire and empower youth, teens, young adults, and
educators, this time it is across the continent of Africa. Speaking at the
Annual Power of Africa Virtual Conference https://tinyurl.com/2p84k9f7
William, a STEAM+M Educator, he, and his wife Aida, a university professor
are Certified VR (Virtual Reality) and STEAM+M Educators. They have been
providing workshops across Jacksonville to help youth and teens understand
how to use and apply WordPress for Web Development, AI for literary
comprehension, and Metaverse creation of virtual environments to help
prepare students for future career opportunities in technology careers.

Assisting African student’s with the same excitement and passion that can
change communities across a continent.
The Power of Africa 2023 conference broadcast across the continent of Africa
to share knowledge how technology can build the African continent and how
Africans and those of the African Diaspora can be brought together.
William and his wife have taught virtually in African schools for 3 years in
Nigeria, Kenya, and Uganda. In addition, teaching in Jacksonville at Becoming
Collegiate Academy a Charter School https://www.becomingschools.org/ ,
Sandalwood High School and have been invited to speak at conferences
nationally  and internationally because of their curriculums integrating
the Metaverse, AI and VR.

The Power of Africa, http://powerofafrica.com/: “Power Of Africa Conference
is an International event that spotlights the Greatness of Africa across diverse
sectors while also promoting creative strategies to tackle the challenges which had limited Africa from reaching its full potentials. The conference
is an event initiative of Power Of Africa aka POA.

William has spoken twice during the two day conference:
Day 1 “Incentivizing Innovators To Identify New Models To Enhance
Learning & Skill Development in Africa” https://tinyurl.com/4dn9u4ba
and
“Unlocking The Future with Digital Transformation: Innovation & Disruptive
Trends in Africa” https://tinyurl.com/2e94cajr
Power Of Africa Conference 2023 [#POA2023] is an International 2-Days Virtual Conference holding the goal of the #POA2023 conference to
build on past conferences by expanding the platform to showcase the
best of Africa and the African Diaspora that includes African Americans.
This helps facilitate collaborative thinking for the advancement of Africa
and building relationships between African
Americans, Africans, and those of the African Diaspora in business, commerce, entrepreneurialism and even medical technologies.

Education is the key, with this understanding educators like William
with diverse digital backgrounds are providing their experiences,
knowledge, wisdom, resources and even investments to help build
Africa into an international influencer and with digital innovation
across multiple platforms. There is a special bond between
those in the African Diaspora too help their brothers and sisters
on the continent of Africa to broaden education and business so
both groups benefit.

View the Power of Africa on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@PowerOfAfrica_
View the Power of Africa Speakers https://youtu.be/jlLQIx1Wcqo
Facebook of Power of Africa https://www.facebook.com/PowerOfAfrica