Name: VR in the Classroom: Early lessons learned from Google Expeditions - Google I/O 2016
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Thanks for spending some time with us this afternoon.

I'm a product manager on the Google Expeditions team.

And I'm really excited to be joined here by Jen and Rob,

of a small community of really, really passionate people

here at Google who think technology can really

And if it's not obvious already by virtue of the session,

So we've just returned, a little exhausted,

but super-encouraged, from a year-long trip

And that trip has been to try to bring VR

to as many teachers and students around the world as we could.

managed to bring expeditions to over a million students

It's a number we're really, really proud of.

But so much of the credit for what follows actually

goes to the amazing group of teachers and students

We've received so much amazing feedback from them.

And we're really, really grateful to everyone

who has participated and who continues to participate.

So I'm going to start with some thoughts about why

VR and education are a really good match.

And then Jen's going to talk a little bit

about Google Expeditions and our Pioneer Program.

And then Rob's going to talk about the future of VR

Like, why did we originally create Google Expeditions?

And why do we think VR platforms like Daydream

will offer so much potential for educators and learners?

be interested in developing educational apps for VR?

So let's start with a quick show of hands.

How many of you remember studying really, really hard

that you studied the second after the test?

How many of you think you could do well in that test

that you've taken to an interesting place, a country,

How many of you can recall details about that trip?

why we find the emergence of widely accessible VR technology

Google I/O is no place to temper one's enthusiasm.

So I'll make a bold claim that many of us who

because it allows us to address one of the most important,

And I want to spend a few minutes digging into why.

So to start with, let's take a really, really big step back.

has been aimed to enable access to information--

facts, details, other observations about the world.

And for most of human history, a smart person

has basically been someone who knew a lot of facts.

And fact retention is what a lot of the technology that we've

I'm talking about things like the book, right?

Or libraries of books, a catalog that lets you easily

access tons and tons of information quickly.

Search engines, like one you might recognize here,

have only served to make this kind of fact retrieval

breathtakingly fast, comprehensive, and easy.

Even the rapid growth of technology like laptops,

has only really served to help you assimilate information

how well you did in absorbing it and recalling it.

But while information is super, super important,

"There are 26 goats and 10 sheep on a boat.

of fifth graders in the '90s asked this question.

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VR in the Classroom: Early lessons learned from Google Expeditions - Google I/O 2016

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