Virtual Reality In Ernest Cline's 'Ready Player One'

rtual reality will one day be the norm for society. Now virtual reality is at a stage where not everyone has access but it is getting there.In the book Ready Player One by Ernest Cline creates a whole world based on the idea of fully submersive virtual reality, the OASIS. In the OASIS school aged kids can attend school in this world instead of the real world. The main character Wade jumps at this opportunity. Considering how public school have not changed much from now to 2044 when wade is going it’s easy to see why. Students learning capability is affected by the place in which they learn, teaching styles that are used, and the way others behave as well.

Where students learn is crucial to their education. Students who learn in rundown overcrowded

There was never enough of anything. Textbooks were reused until they were falling apart at the seams. Money was spent on athletics rather than academic. My high school had three astroturf fields. We could afour a million dollar football field but not textbooks that had been published within the last twenty years. Even worse were novels used for english classes. Books would have fallen out of the binding and teachers would have to tape them back in. I read one new book in the entirety of my four years in high school. Wade faces the same struggle when he attended public school. He says, “The real public school system there run by the government, had been underfunded, overcrowded trainwrecks for decades”(Cline 31). Schools should have the highest level of funding and it should be spent in ways that benefit a student’s education first. Funding for extracurricular activities is important but it should not take center stage over academics. The whole point of going to school is to get an education not play

Everything that is done is meant to help students learn. Wade describes OASIS schools as, “…a grand palace of learning, with polished marble hallways”(Cline 31). Who would not want to go to a school like that. If public schools actually maintained a decent paint job it would be an improvement. Many public school face problems with lead paint and lead pipes and do not fix them until people have already been exposed. Schools should look presentable and lie people care.They should not be run down and have people questioning if it is an actual school anymore. The spaces in which students learn are crucial to them achieving and caring about their education.

The environment in which students are given to learn will not only affect them but also affect the teachers. Teachers can only do so much for their students in public schools. With the use of virtual reality in the OASIS anything they ever dreamed of is possible. Students are now in a way almost forced into their education. They are transported in time back to egypt, or into the human body. The OASIS is like the Magic School Bus in a way, offering field trips students will never