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How student-created VR can enhance SEL and special ed

May 10, 2019May 8, 2019 by Billy Deskin & Sam Williamson

Quality social-emotional learning (SEL) and effective special education (SpEd) programming look remarkably similar.

5 ways to use AR and VR in the classroom

April 18, 2019 by Rob Furman

3 young students eagerly looking at a MERGE Cube, an AR app, with a laptop

Augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) are the new hot trends in education. But what does that mean and how is it going to benefit our students?…

Why our district is investing in AI, AR, VR, and MR

November 5, 2018 by Samuel Mormando

For most of our students, it’s hard to imagine communicating without email or text message. The number of ways our students learn, share, and communicate has grown exponentially…

Immersive technology: Asset to the classroom or another tech fad?

October 11, 2018 by Julia Ottesen

Augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), mixed reality—can immersive technology really benefit students and their learning, or are these just tech fads? In their recent edWebinar, Jaime Donally,…

4 ways AR/VR can transform your lesson plan

May 6, 2019August 3, 2018 by Cathy Hackl

The post-1990’s generation, Gen Z, doesn’t remember a world without digital technology. In fact, the children of millennials, born after 2010, are sometimes described as Generation Alpha. They…

Virtual reality could help students remember better, new research says

July 17, 2018 by Laura Ascione

Virtual reality is exciting and engaging for students, but for the most part, schools have struggled to find ways to incorporate it into the curriculum. Now, new research…

What research says about virtual reality in classrooms

April 18, 2018 by Tanner Higgin

While we've been inundated over the past few years with the promises and potentials of virtual reality (VR), it's been tough to slice through the hype to find…