Companies like NIKE and Walmart are joining the Metaverse. What does this mean for education? Here are 3 tangible benefits to using VR in school now. Continue reading
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Navigating the Digital Human Experience
The digital human experience. What is it? Who builds it? How to we navigate it? What jobs and industries might be created in this new space? In today’s blog we take the first few steps into navigating this experience through an exhibit curated by Matthew Hodge, an Interactive Game Design teacher at CART, an indie game developer, and our guide through this new digital landscape. Continue reading
5 Tips for Effective Team Bonding in Immersive Worlds
Recently our team had a week long team bonding workshop in our DStewart EDU Campus powered by Virbela. We had so much fun really diving in to the possibilites of our virtual world as a team, and wanted to share our top 5 tips with you. Continue reading
How Can Non-Immersive VR Help Students be More Engaged?
Virtual Reality has been an emerging trend in education for years, but in recent months it has become more mainstream. With such an intense shift to virtual, VR (specifically non-immersive VR) has helped us all explore new worlds and stay connected in ways we never thought possible. But how can VR help students in the … Continue reading
Everything You Missed at TCEA 2020
THE TRENDS Esports – It’s what literally EVERYONE is talking about, and for good reason! In Texas school districts alone, esports programs grew from about 20 to more than 300 in the span of a few months leading up to TCEA 2020. Teachers and students are getting increasingly excited about the STEAM curriculum possibilities both … Continue reading
How is 5G set to change the classroom?
What is 5G? 5G is the fifth generation of wireless communication and it’s just beginning to roll out around the world. It promises speeds up to 20 times faster than 4G connections, more bandwidth and more stable connections. All four wireless carriers have begun using 5G in the U.S., and 5G phones are available to … Continue reading
The Best of ISTE 2019
ISTE 2019’s “Best of” list gives insight into upcoming edtech trends. Continue reading
How VR and AR are Helping Students Learn
Imagine how different your learning experience would’ve been if you could hold a beating heart when learning about anatomy, walk through the solar system when learning about planets, and take a trip to Australia to see a Kangaroo. Only Ms. Frizzle could take her kids on these trips in the Magic School Bus. Now today’s … Continue reading
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