Chicago — A number of faculties within the Saint Louis Public Faculties (SLPS) district have signed on to carry the immersive energy of digital actuality know-how to college students this faculty yr with ClassVR, from Avantis Schooling. To date, 17 of the colleges within the district have leveraged federal ESSER funding to buy the award-winning AR/VR headsets, which embrace 1000’s of items of VR and AR content material to assist all topic areas. Implementation is deliberate for later this faculty yr.
Douglas Combs from Haddock Schooling Applied sciences coordinated the purchases following an ESSER showcase for SLPS principals and lecturers. “When faculties come to us asking about the advantages of AR and VR know-how within the classroom, we all know ClassVR will present them with what they need,” stated Combs. “At SLPS, faculty leaders have been in search of one thing cool and thrilling to interact college students within the content material they have been studying in school. ClassVR is the proper match.”
ClassVR is an all-in-one VR/AR headset designed particularly for Ok-12 faculties. Utilized by greater than 1 million college students in 100,000 lecture rooms all over the world, it contains all {hardware}, software program, coaching, assist and implementation providers wanted for lecturers to deploy AR/VR of their lecture rooms. ClassVR offers lecturers entry to 1000’s of VR and AR sources and content material to boost classes and have interaction college students extra deeply in what they’re studying. College students can nearly expertise strolling with polar bears, swimming with sharks, or touring again in time to see what it was like in a World Struggle I trench. New for the 2023-24 faculty yr, Avantis aligned 400+ classes in ClassVR to U.S. State Requirements in science, social research and English language arts, offering added worth and comfort for lecturers.
ClassVR qualifies for ESSER funds as a result of it helps lecturers assist scholar tutorial achievement and handle studying loss.
“College and district leaders are more and more trying to new and rising applied sciences to assist them assist scholar studying and AR/VR is a giant a part of these conversations,” stated Avantis Schooling’s Chief Govt Officer, Huw Williams. “ESSER funding is making these applied sciences much more accessible for faculties and we’re trying ahead to having the ability to carry the ability of digital actuality into much more lecture rooms, each in St. Louis and throughout the nation.”
To study extra about ClassVR, go to http://www.classvr.com.
About Avantis
Avantis Schooling, the creators of ClassVR, gives easy classroom know-how utilized by greater than one million college students in over 90 international locations.
The world’s first digital actuality know-how designed only for training gives all the pieces a college must seamlessly implement VR know-how in any classroom, all at an inexpensive worth. To study extra go to www.avantiseducation.com and www.classvr.com.
