How student-created VR can enhance SEL and special ed
Quality social-emotional learning (SEL) and effective special education (SpEd) programming look remarkably similar.
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Empower students to be future ready with these top 5 tools
Educators are constantly looking for resources and tools to get students engaged and excited about the content they are teaching. Take it a step further by empowering your…
5 ways to use AR and VR in the classroom
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?…
10 K12 education trends to look for this year
We may technically be in the middle of a school year, but starting a new calendar year has us looking at and forecasting the new trends in education…
Lockhart Ed Tech
David Lockhart started teaching high school history in 2004. He had to find that thing that made his lessons stand out, and he saw it with technology. For…
10 of the best websites for bringing history & social studies to life
History and social studies bad reputations for being boring. To many students, these subjects mean reading long-winded textbooks and memorizing incessant facts. They don’t necessarily see the importance…
Why our district is investing in AI, AR, VR, and MR
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?
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,…
How wearables, AR, and VR help students to develop SEL skills (part 2)
In my previous post, How wearables, AR, and VR help students develop SEL skills (part 1), I explored the ways in which wearables, augmented reality (AR), and virtual…
4 ways AR/VR can transform your lesson plan
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…