As some area educators see it, an emerging technology has the potential of becoming a school teacher’s dream tool.
It can let kids wander and explore wherever they want to go because they’re not actually wandering anywhere — they’re still in the classroom.
That is the potential of virtual reality in education, according to some instructors in Lake County. Before the end of the school year, students at Aptakisic-Tripp Elementary District 102 in Buffalo Grove were one of the latest groups in the area to receive a trial run with Google Cardboard, the tech company’s virtual-reality player.
