Halil ÜNEŞ

 In today's post, we are going to talk about Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and more importantly their use in education . So, let's get started with the definitions. Our first part will be about virtual reality. What is Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality?      By the definition of Wikipedia, Virtual Reality (aka VR) is simulated experience that can be similar to or completely different from the real world. VR is used in education, entertaining and bussiness. VR emerged in 20th century, but 21th has been the milestone for the development of it.     As for the Augmented Reality, it is actually a improved version of Virtualy reality in that Augmented Reality builds its power more on an interactive experience of real-world environment by refering to sensory modalities like visual, auditory, haptic, somatosensory and olfactory. Thefore, AR is a sophisticated extension of VR. Now, let us get deep into the use of VR and AR in the field education . Use of Virtual Reality and Aug

 

  A summary of Social Networking as an Educational Tool      In modern digital technologies' world, it is impossible to implement digital tools into education. Since today's young generating is already aware of this world and the flow of information is carried out via internet, it is inevitable to use them for education. Web 2.0 tools are suited perfectly for this purpose, with its tools like blogs, Wikipedia, podcasts and those produces exclusively for education like Edpuzzle, Classroom and Nearpod, and with its function rich in variety like interactive environment, tools for team working and creating, editing and sharing your own content. Young people are digital natives, which means that they grow up side by side to digital tools like Google, Youtube, and game applications. They tend to learn visually and aurally more than sole texts. They also enjoy being in touch with other users of these applications and doing team activities. Being alone in learning journey is a burden f

      Nearpod is an excellent platform that helps educators to create interactive lessons, whether it is the classroom or virtual. Its concept is very simple. It includes Quiz's, Polls, Collaborate Bords, and more. Students can access a teacher's presentation through a code. It provides simple presentation delivery, personalized provision, distributing resources, live formative assessment, ongoing assessment, self-assessment, open-ended task etc.

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         Here are the links to the blogs of my friend, work of whom I follow:         Ali Vehbi Yalınç:  https://alivehbiyalinc.blogspot.com/?m=1          Ahmet Doğan:  https://hightechmats.blogspot.com/          Kristina Nikolaeva:  https://kristinanklva.blogspot.com/          İsa Arslan:  https://englishmaterials2021.wordpress.com/          Muhammet Aydoğdu:  https://muhammedaydogdu.blogspot.com/