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26Feb/16Off

These Two School Districts Are Teaching Through Virtual Reality

nearpodStudents in the San Francisco Unified School District and Polk County Public Schools in Florida are the first to use Nearpod VR virtual reality lesson plans. Using branded Google Cardboards, teachers can send classes on over 25 virtual field trip lessons that will offer first-person tours of the ancient pyramids of Egypt, the caves on Easter Island, the marine biomes of the Great Barrier Reef, Mars, patriotic landmarks across the U.S., and the tallest buildings in the world in Dubai.

 Nearpod partnered with 360 Cities for the interactive panoramic images and added that virtual reality content into its existing lesson plan marketplace for K-12 to create the virtual field trip lessons. The virtual reality component of these lessons make up 20-50% of the content and consist of a mix of interactive assessments.

“In addition, teachers can create their own VR lessons by searching for thousands of interactive panoramic images within the Nearpod content tool,” Nearpod co-founder and CEO Guido Kovalskys says. “The possibilities are endless.”

Brandon Farwell, partner at Rothenberg Ventures, which invested in Nearpod, believes virtual reality is a platform that influences numerous verticals broadly across enterprise and consumer.

See the full story here: http://fortune.com/2016/02/25/school-districts-teaching-through-virtual-reality/

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