Thursday, April 24, 2025

AR and VR in Education

With technology evolving rapidly, adapting to the changes can make a classroom environment better. Virtual Reality (VR) technology is better than ever before, and using it for educational purposes can make the learning experience more engaging and real. The Nearpod VR is a VR tool that is changing the K-12 world of education with its immersive and realistic resources that help students learn in a different way.
Technology in the Classroom: Nearpod by Daniel Barkes

What is Nearpod?

Nearpod VR is an educational platform that offers interactive VR lessons with virtual field trips, allowing students to immerse in different cultures, historical sites, and scientific phenomena without leaving their classroom. With a library of 300,000 VR lessons, Nearpod VR is changing how educators use technology to better educate students. 

Nearpod VR let students go on virtual field trips to anywhere in the world. The Eiffel Tower, The Pyramids on Egypt, The Great China Wall, etc. This can give students a more real experience when talking about this topics.

Teachers can also coordinate with classrooms in any other parts of the world to have collaborative projects with students from anywhere. They can collaborate from anywhere in the world towards the same goal or project, communicate with each other, interact and learn things from each other. This will help build student's social skills, communication skills and teamwork.

Nearpod VR is also a great tool for language learning. It can set you up with people around the world and give you an idea of how native people from that place communicate. 

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