Iowa City students test-drive virtual learning tools - KCRG

IOWA CITY, Iowa (KCRG) - Saturday, 5 Iowa City West High School gathered to bash what looked a batch similar schoolwork. However, with 3D glasses and virtual world headsets involved, it wasn’t enactment 1 would spot successful a emblematic classroom.

The students were successful Iowa EdTech Collaborative’s “Classroom of the Future” to trial retired learning products and present feedback to the institution that designed them.

This Saturday, the students were focused connected 3D and virtual programs successful science, anatomy, and carpentry.

“Our biggest extremity is to spot what we tin marque amended astir it,” said Ava Graf, a elder astatine Iowa City West and the pupil who organized Saturday’s event, “Take It Or Break It!”

Tom Nicknish, President of VivEd Learning, said the process of having students effort retired the bundle was “very helpful.”

“It enables america to conscionable get feedback from the extremity users, which is not thing that we get entree to. Because of our concern exemplary we’re chiefly moving with businesses successful general, and truthful we’re benignant of separated from the customer,” Nicknish said.

The students assistance the institution by sharing qualitative information astir the products, but the students besides payment by helping to plan and signifier the tools that whitethorn 1 time beryllium successful their school. Graf added different payment was the acquisition of putting connected the lawsuit itself.

“I’m hoping to spell into business. So I’m reasoning similar the entrepreneurial side, but besides marketing,” Graf said. “Everything connected the concern broadside of it has truly acceptable maine up for, I think, a bully occurrence successful the future.”

The Iowa EdTech Collaborative is an economical radical moving connected gathering concern successful Iowa and looking to acquisition arsenic a market. It is associated with the Iowa City Area Development Group.

“We’re successful the concern of helping place what’s the champion of the champion successful the newest innovation, and past getting that to the students and to the teachers who are truthful hopeless for engaging, effectual learning technologies,” Mark Butland, manager of Iowa EdTech, said.

The students were determination to critique, but their observations came from a spot of enthusiasm.

“It’s precise engaging, and ace chill mode to learn,” Graf said.

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