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12 Free VR Apps for the Classroom. Digital Tech Scope and Sequence. 16 Ideas for Student Projects Using Google Docs, Slides, and Forms. Integrating Technology Across the Curriculum - TinkeringChild. Students use technology. Teachers use technology. Technology in the classroom has had such a positive impact on education. As humans we invented and developed technologies which are changing our lives every second. Technology has changed education and learning methods. Information and knowledge can be found so quickly and easily with the world-wide web. Today, because of technology, education is accessible to all through online courses, MOOCs, seminars, webinars, you tube, PLN’s and just being present online! Technology has improved the educational process; improved staff and student management methods, communication between teachers and students, easier methods to conduct assessments, students’ performance reporting, real-world problem-solving assignments and projects.

It’s important that we do not just use technology to make life easier but use technology to create for the future. Some examples included: Prep students designed a home for a pet out of recycled/collage materials. 12 Free VR Apps for the Classroom. One of the teachers I work with recently asked me to look for some mobile AR/VR content on the theme of Natural Disasters which her students were studying after the Christmas break. My first port of call was YouTube where I curated an appropriate set of 360 videos about volcanoes, tornadoes and other natural disasters.

This has become a go-to move for me as I can navigate the content quickly and produce staff a sheet of QR codes that students can scan to directly access the 360 content whether they are using VR headsets or just their iPads. I try to present these in a poster format too so that it can be added to a classroom display and accessed asynchronously throughout a topic.

Here’s the Natural Disasters one: So having shared that with her, I began to trawl the Apple App Store looking for some AR/VR content related to the theme. Quiver was my first choice as I knew there was an interactive volcano colouring sheet. Most of these apps were also not free. CS Fundamentals Unplugged Lessons. Blockly Satellite | Australian Computing Academy. Untitled.

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