It’s a new year and hope springs eternal for all educators, administrators, and students. There’s a good chance you may have made a New Year’s resolution or two already and also a chance those resolutions might have already been broken. As we turn the page on 2018 and shift our focus solely to 2019, let’s take a moment to focus on what might be next.
There are a few VR systems that are great for educational use, including the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and Google Expeditions. This week, however, we’re going to talk about the last one. Google Expeditions is different from the other two systems for the simple fact that it’s designed specifically to be educational.
Sure, just throwing a VR headset into a classroom and letting kids do with it what they please might not be the best approach. Luckily, there are alternatives, like Google Expeditions. With these programs, students can leverage tailored content in an interactive way all while their teachers guide them through lessons that are optimized for education!
We hope you have been enjoying our Rising Resources blog series so far and we’re back with a new installment today! Each week, we will take a look at an online STEM resource teachers can use to better their instruction with hands-on opportunities. In this article, we’re exploring the wonders of Nearpod.
In some parts of the country, school has already started, but for those who return back right before or right after Labor Day, there is still a bit of time to do some EdTech research and discover some new tech tools to potentially bring into the classroom for the new year! So, here’s some suggestions for tech tools to use in many different areas of STEM.
As an up-to-date reseller of innovative educational technologies, we’re always searching the world and working our contacts in order to get the latest and greatest STEM tools up on our store. Honestly, if you visit our site one day and come back a week later, there’s a good chance that you’ll be able to find something new!
The Vive Pro leverages enhanced audio and incredible optics to deliver superior STEM instruction with a constantly growing library of VR content. It’s set to revolutionize the way you teach in the 21st century! Now, it’s a part of our store as well, joining other big names in educational VR solutions.
Teachers try every day to bring learning alive, but it hasn’t always been as easy to bring content alive. With zSpace’s amazing augmented reality system, however, all you get is interactive, exhilarating experiences. The content literally jumps off the screen, allowing students to hold, move, and manipulate 3D objects.
In our first year of attending the ISTE Conference last summer, we learned a lot about this event, its attendees, the atmosphere, and what it takes to have a successful trip. Now, we want to take things a step further and help the educators who come from all over the world on another level. We want to be part of the Presenters of ISTE and need your help.
VR is making its way into the educational sphere, empowering students to explore previously unreachable destinations and interact directly with virtual objects. A few weeks ago, I experimented with the Oculus Rift virtual reality system, and this time I got to try out the HTC Vive—just another perk of working at Eduporium!
