Barbara Mikolajczak is an information technology professor at Boston College who teaches a 4 th to 6 th grade after-school “immersive education” class in which virtual reality, game-based learning and ...

Young people dissect a 3D brain, explore lava tubes, and play a virtual piano on immersive screens twice their size—using nothing but some PVC, fabric, laptops, a mouse, and a projector. Immersive ...

North Central Michigan College has a wide array of classes, and some of the more unique options take students out of the classroom and into hands-on opportunities and experiences. Sarah Glasgow, ...

Like many rural school districts around the world, the educational systems in certain areas of the Netherlands are facing major challenges. Three schools in the town of Sneek made the decision to find ...

Immersive technology: Asset to the classroom or another tech fad? Julia Ottesen October 11, 2018 Can schools integrate AR, VR, and mixed reality into the classroom and curriculum effectively?

Called the Cognitive Immersive Room (CIR), it pairs an A.I.-powered chatbot smart assistant with a 360-degree panoramic display system to place users into a variety of immersive locations to try out ...

Marquita Brown is a multimedia storyteller and content strategist. She is a former managing editor of EdTech: Focus on K–12 magazine. It’s the field trip fifth-grade students in Woodstock Community ...

Elliott Levine is Director of Education for the Americas Region of HP, Inc. and the company’s first Distinguished Technologist focused solely on edtech. A former K-12 district administrator and ...

In November 2015, middle school students from Westchester County, New York, found themselves on a windswept field in South Sudan mingling with a crowd of refugees fleeing civil war. Suddenly, they ...

Immersive learning might sound like a no-brainer strategy, but it’s a superb way to ensure students are engaged in lessons and core concepts. Augmented and virtual reality apps are excellent ways to ...

Most fluent speakers of the Lingít language are elders. But the instructors of an immersion classroom in Juneau have high hopes: to raise a new generation of Lingít speakers. When you step inside the ...

An elementary school in Frisco has something good in its art teacher. The outside of Monica Noel's classroom at Newman Elementary hints that kids are learning about the French painter Claude Monet. It ...