CrashCourse is a new education program designed to help teach Arkansas’ young football players about concussions and what they can do to their bodies. This month the state board announced its partnership with TeachAids, a nonprofit organization, to implement this teaching system through VR in the entire state.
VR is easily the most effective way to teach about this because it puts the kids in the exact positions that they would be in the game, and it is fully immersive.
At any given point throughout the film, you are given options about how to handle the situation and react to what happened. After you decide your own actions, your consequences soon follow. Bryce Love, Stanford football star, is there to walk you through what each action lead to, to talk about concussions, and how to avoid them.
After that part of the simulation, the following part is the Symptoms Simulator. It shows the students the symptoms inside of the headset as if it were them, so they can use the information for future games and practices. It will teach them when they might have one, and spot every kind of symptom. At the end, you get to see a 3D scan of the human brain.
CrashCourse is a free experience, but Arkansas is still the first to implement it on a large scale. There should be an improvement with this help, but only the future can tell.
