We live on a different era, access to information has changed the way students learn and teachers teach. It’s important to prepare students for the challenges and jobs that doesn’t exist today and embrace a culture beyond classrooms, one that promotes curiosity, research and teamwork. Technology is one of the reasons for changing education, but it is also the tool to make this change happen. Technology is changing many industries and it has the potential to transform education.
Experiences are critical to learning and we’re not far off a future where experiences can be enjoyed by the same children, regardless of where they were born or their families’ socioeconomic background. We’ve seen the democratization of knowledge through the internet and Google Search and we’ve seen how access to information can transform individuals and communities. We believe fundamentally that it’s now time for the democratization of experience and our team feels like it has a moral obligation to make this happen.
Teachers are always looking for new ways to engage with students and make knowledge more interesting. We think technology can play a key role in these tasks. We believe in the power of virtual reality as a powerful learning tool for teachers to engage their students with a new dimension of discovery. That’s why we built Google Expeditions and launched the Expeditions Pioneer Program. We want to enable teachers to bring students on virtual trips to places — museums, underwater, outer space — that a school bus can’t go.
We worked with teachers and content partners from around the world to create more than 150 engaging journeys — making it easy to immerse students in entirely new experiences and adapt the Expeditions to existing lessons and curriculum. While nothing replaces getting on a bus and going on a field trip, virtual reality enables experiences to happen when they would otherwise not.
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