Google Expeditions

Google Wants to Take Students Around the World and Beyond with Expeditions (+Video)

Will Fulton | May 29, 2015

Short of the Magic School Bus, class field trips are a logistically-complicated affair, and generally limited to places within easy driving distance of the school. One of the long-promised goals of virtual reality is to enable students to explore the whole universe without leaving the classroom’s confines. Google has now taken tangible steps to make that possibility available to students with the announcement of Expeditions at I/O 2015.

             Source: https://www.google.com/get/cardboard/            

<more at http://www.digitaltrends.com/wearables/google-expeditions-announcement/; related links: https://www.google.com/edu/expeditions/ (Expeditions. Bring Expeditions to Your School or Become a Partner) and http://www.eschoolnews.com/2015/07/23/google-expeditions-class-599/ (What Google’s virtual field trips look like in the classroom. July 23, 2015)>