VR & AR in Education

I'm including this video at the upstart because most of my kids can afford nothing, and the school does not have access to VR tech at any level.

However, we can salvage cardboard, find scissors, and about 75% of my 8th graders have phones. The Cardboard method is the way to go.

Some teachers are using VR like this, but in my classroom, it would look like this:

• One day of awesome, hands-on work creating their own cardboard frame.
• One day of checking out apps - and making sure they were appropriate.
• One day of finding out where we can go with it, like Shakespeare's Globe Theatre.
• One day of using and sharing our experiences.
• One day of discussing what we found - and how we could improve on it.

I'd love to gather information and links from the students through Google Forms to help the students reflect on what they saw and did.

As to the appropriateness of the availability of different apps, Common Sense Education has some excellent information about what the research says about VR in the classroom. For me, it would be an excellent way to pair hands-on creativity with technology that my students have never before seen.