Virtual Reality (VR) is incredibly versatile. In education, it has the power to take learning outside of the classroom, or even into areas of our world that cannot be seen with the naked eye. It is possible to undertake field trips without going anywhere. Perhaps a class would like the opportunity to explore the structure […]
How Microsoft Hololens is being used in Education (Augmented Reality) Microsoft has begun promoting the concept of mixed reality. This includes the projection of images onto our world through their Hololens. By looking through the lens of augmented reality students will be able to view digitally created objects in 3D and then effectively interact with […]
Thinking of how to get your students scheduled for a school trip to the Smithsonian to see some old airplanes or some of the sculptures of Sacajawea, why not go ahead and just show them what it feels like to fly in an old airplane or show them the old forests and rapids Sacajawea and […]
Augmented reality is really just a fancy way of saying tech that adds 3D figures into the real image you see, to give you some sort of composite view of the world. Remember the old Looney Tunes movies where Bugs Bunny is still a cartoon but he’s strolling around munching carrots and talking with real […]
A few years ago, virtual reality was basically sci-fi Hollywood trope, or well, as some conspiracy theorists will emphatically state, strictly for use by the US Military. A few years later, virtual reality was consigned to only video games. Today, it is a whole new ballgame. Today, we are using virtual reality in schools. Growing […]
Most educational experts agree that Virtual Reality will eventually become a fundamental part of the way that we educate our children. This has often gone down with angst for some teachers, who fear that obscure academics are attempting to replace them with machines. Nothing could be further from the truth and it is impossible to […]
Mathematics is often a complicated and abstract subject, which some students can find particularly difficult to grasp. Many potentially talented mathematicians can be left by the wayside, because of the educational, mathematical paradigm that we live in. Einstein, for instance, was famously described as a poor mathematician by his high school math teacher. Obviously no […]
