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* Students will analyze the arguments about whether or not virtual reality can actually
increase empathy and, ultimately, lead to behaviour change.
● Students will evaluate the information presented and write a response to the issue.

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Talk about a time when you felt empathy for someone else--when you really understood and
identified with another person’s experience.

1. What had that person experienced?
2. Why and how
could you understand how they were feeling?

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Define the word “empathy” as a class. Ask students how it is different from, or similar
to, “sympathy.”

Students should share their opinions below.

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Can Virtual Reality Make You a Better Person?

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Can a virtual experience allow us to deeply understand and
share a person’s feelings? Why or why not?

Upload your video response in the next column.

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1. Login using your KPM id.
2. Add a post by clicking the plus (+) button.
3. Click on the more button in the post and choose video recorder. Start filming your presentation and post it.
4. Other members can vote on your video presentation. More votes mean you have captured the hearts of your listeners.
5. Marks for speaking will be assessed via this platform.

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VR

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Virtual reality (VR) is an immersive experience, with 360-degree video, sound and sometimes
other sensory inputs that simulate being in another environment. While most often used for
entertainment, VR is also being studied by social scientists and psychologists as a way to alter
the feelings or responses of users. Because VR is a controlled environment, it can be used to
replicate specific situations. It is being used for military, space and medical training, as well as
a therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety and phobias. Studies are also being done
to see if it can increase our empathy by allowing us to “experience” situations that we would
not otherwise be able to. Is VR so immersive that it can change our behavior?