3 Must-have Classroom Tech Innovations–and How to Fund Them

By Laura Ascione

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Classroom technology is an essential part of learning--here's how to find the tools and the funding to implement it in your school

Sparking Curiosity About STEM

By  Alessandra King

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A monthly after-school activity guides students to have fun exploring science, technology, engineering, and math.

How Can Virtual Reality Help with Choosing a Future Career?

By Nancy Howard

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Virtual reality is a relatively new technology that is already widely used in various industries. Engineering, design, and entertainment spheres are among them along with the educational and training activities. This technology also helps to follow a virtual reality career path by acquiring jobs in VR related to programming, design, or content creation.

Is Google Arts and Culture a Good Replacement for Google Expeditions?

Since Google Expeditions was discontinued on June 30, 2021, Google redirects everyone to use the Google Arts and Culture app and presents it as a replacement for Expeditions.

Google listed a lot of content from all around the world in the app, but is it a good solution for in-class virtual reality field trips?

Google Arts and Culture app include many of the experiences that were available on Google Expeditions. However, we at RobotLAB tried and tested the app and there are major differences and issues we wanted you to be aware of.

Our teacher partners have shared with us their thoughts on Google's alternative, and they all mainly agree:

Google Arts and Culture is a great source for content, but NOT suitable for in-class virtual field trips.

Google Expeditions Is Gone, Now What?

The long-time Educator's favorite app, Google Expeditions, was discontinued today. A replacement app is available now for educators: VR EXPEDITIONS 2.0 from RobotLAB Inc.

VR Expeditions 2.0 is now officially released to the public!

San Francisco, May 24th, 2021, - RobotLAB Inc., the leading educational robotics company, announced today the release of VR EXPEDITIONS 2.0 to the public. The company created the virtual field trip app in partnership with Encyclopedia Britannica and 360 cities. 

Three Key Points For schools opening in-person.

By MATTHEW LYNCH

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Businesses all over the world are slowly beginning to reopen, but schools and educational institutions face special challenges during this time period. Schools need to carefully plan their reopening strategy before restarting any in-person classes or programs. Here are three key points every school should consider:

How to choose a STEM platform to support hybrid learning

By Meredith Nations

An educator offers valuable insight on picking a STEM platform and technology provider that can withstand the rigors of today’s unique learning.

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Ways Big Data Is Transforming the Education Sector

By Daniel Wanderson

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When it comes to big data, most people assume it works only for businesses. But big data is equally beneficial to the education section in so many ways. It offers educational institutions and educators opportunities to educate students in new ways. 

With big data, schools and teachers get better insight into students’ education experiences. It also makes it easy to understand the state of the education sector amid other benefits. This article takes an in-depth look at the ways big data is transforming the education sector.

How To Integrate Virtual Tours To Your Online Lessons

By Theresa Cofield 

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Online education is the new challenge of the modern world. How can teachers keep students interested in lessons and the material? Virtual tours are the new ad effective way to provide it.