Hello everyone and I hope everyone is safe and ready for another blog! This week I will be exploring Virtual Reality in education and talk about Google Cardboard and what is used with it in education.
Google Cardboard is a platform used for virtual reality that was made and developed by Google. The platform encourages use and helps bring interest into the virtual reality world by allowing application that are compatible with the Google Cardboard. This piece of cardboard allows anyone to take part and experience virtual reality which is always a fun new entertaining experience. Using this platform is very easy, as you download the Google Cardboard app on your phone and then just place your phone in the Cardboard where it holds it, and then the world is yours to explore!
Google Cardboard can very easily be used in the Education field, and the one app that reaches out and intrigues me the most is easily Google Expeditions. As you readers know, I have mentioned how I am a history major, and there are tons on places around the world I would love to visit and explore. Google Expeditions allows you to tour and be put into virtual reality with any place and will make you feel like you are at that very place.
With that being said, I can constantly use virtual reality in the classroom as I can constantly take my students to places that we are studying, so they can see what the old historical buildings look like that we are studying.
Virtual reality can be something very effective and useful for Global Collaboration, as this is a way you and someone across the world can be viewing and studying at the same time. You and your Global Collaboration partner can be working on the same project, and be studying and looking at things at the same time through virtual reality. Virtual reality can be something that even takes Global Collaboration to new heights as you and someone else can be physically looking and examine something that you both are studying and share your thoughts and ideas as you are both looking in this virtual world.
Virtual reality is something that can even further the heights of Global Collaboration and make new things possible. Virtual Reality in the classroom and in Global Education is definitely something to keep an eye on as it will definitely make a contribution in the years to come.
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