Virtual Reality

Making Virtual Reality a Reality in Today's Classrooms -- THE JournalMIT education researcher Meredith Thompson shares three vignettes of three different approaches to virtual reality in K–12: a social studies class in a suburban school district, a district-wide perspective from an urban school district and a class designed entirely around understanding and implementing VR for other classrooms.

What the Research Says About VR in ClassroomsFive research-based ways to use VR for learning.

Make Virtual Reality

CoSpaces Edu: Make AR & VR in the classroomDiscover how to use VR and AR for education and engage your students to learn by creating. Runs on mobile, tablet and desktop, including Chromebooks.

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Tour CreatorTour Creator makes it easy to build immersive, 360 tours right from your computer.

Challenge 2: Google Tour CreatorIgnite: It’s time for our second monthly play challenge! Make some time this August to play with Tour Creator from Google. With Tour Creator you and your students can create YOUR OWN VR tours…

Virtual Reality Tools

Google ExpeditionsImagine exploring coral reefs or the surface of Mars in an afternoon. With Expeditions, teachers can take students on immersive, virtual journeys.

Using Google Expeditions in the ClassroomSpread the loveGoogle Expeditions is a free app that is a teaching tool in virtual reality. Think of it as allowing students to take a virtual field trip to any place in the world, at any time in history. It is designed for classroom use, and it permits teachers to act as “guides” to their students in the virtual world. There is a script for the teacher to use as a guide, so this is not meant to be an experience where students wander randomly, but rather a guided expedition. This makes it easier to correlate the Expedition with instructional …

5 best VR video lessons to engage your students in the classroom - Classcraft BlogThese 360-degree VR video lessons provide students with unique, global experiences without needing to leave the classroom — or buy an expensive headset.

The New York Times VRExplore the library of 360-degree Virtual Reality experiences for yourself.

Reader Idea | New York Times Virtual Reality in the ClassroomUsing virtual reality, or VR, in the classroom can help students learn about the world in a powerful new way, says Cayne Letizia.

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