After a Spring Romp with Online Learning... Are You Ready for Next Year?

While district leaders meet to map out Plans A, B, C, and even Q, for what school will look like in the near future, individual teachers may feel like they can’t make classroom plans until they know the district approach. However, there are several things a classroom teacher can do to prepare for t

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Teacher Talk: Immersive Tech Vocabulary

Technology, as a broad topic, brings a multitude of new words for us to use seemingly daily. No one can possibly keep up, but as our need and familiarity with the tech increases, we somehow manage to add them to our repertoire.

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Sticky Stories in AR: Teaching with a New Medium (Part 2: Younger Children)

In our last blog we introduced the book Made to Stick and explored the future of story as a sticky strategy for older students to move learning to long-term memory. Of course, this includes stories told through immersive technologies which, if developed with children’s unique learning needs, can...

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Sticky Stories in VR: Teaching with a New Medium (Part 1: Older Children)

Stories in VR are changing traditional ways of teaching and learning story. How can educators embrace these new mediums so students can benefit?

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Civil Discourse and Immersive Technologies

When we speak, it is hopefully in a civil manner.” Simply put: “being nice.” Civil discourse, however, is much more than that. It is, “Behaving in ways that are necessary for cooperative projects such as schools and democratic societies to work well” (McCormack, 2018).

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Three "It" Humanities Immersive Experiences

When it comes to bringing the very best digital experiences to students, teachers across the world, do what teachers do...make “it” work. As a teacher, I would splice, dice, copy (usually legally), recreate, and even reinvent pieces of content here with pieces of content there.

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Ed Tech: Student Impact or Fluff?

While tagging along with my husband on a business trip, I had an unexpected ed tech encounter with a retired teacher and father of a 10-year-old. I asked what he'd been doing in the last few years he’d been retired, and he replied, “Not much. You?” I told him I recently co-founded a non-profit to...

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Access to Learning with Augmented Reality Starts with Devices

What teacher doesn’t want to hear these words, “Now this is how I learn!” “Can we do this again?” “My brain hurts...I have so many questions!” How often does an administrator get to say, “There were zero classroom disruptions” or “the students were angels?

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Immersive Tech for Learning? Yes, please.

When it comes to student learning with immersive tech, the research is still in its infancy. But related research…experiences, field trips, simulations, visuals, and engagement aren’t. It is not a huge leap to make a few assumptions about immersive tech, such as augmented and virtual reality.

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