Educational Trends: Virtual Worlds

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Digital natives have been born and raised surrounded by technology. The new digital era in which they are fluent forces traditional education to step aside and embark on a new path towards virtual worlds.

An article in El País said that “65% of primary school students will be working in 10 or 15 years in professions that do not even exist yet.” This is due to the speed with which technology penetrates the work sphere, modifying, eliminating and creating jobs.

To keep up with this reality, the new bangladesh phone data educational trend of virtual worlds is being used. This is the name given to a type of virtual community that simulates an artificial environment in which to interact with other users. Its use in education allows students and teachers to stay connected.

Various virtual worlds
Augmented reality:


Girl with augmented reality glasses



Augmented reality is a technology that allows virtual data to be incorporated into a real object. Using a multimedia device (phone, tablet or laptop), you can read the information entered into the virtual world about the object in front of you. This information will be read by the device's camera and, in addition to the real object, additional material that expands the information can be displayed on the screen.

There are different levels of augmented reality:

Level 0. Hyperlinks : These are used to link the device to the website that hosts the additional information that we want to introduce. This allows, for example, viewing a video about the origin of World War II during an exhibition of physical elements of the war in a museum.

Level 1. Markers : These link to figures that, when scanned, will provide us with a 3D model of the image in front of us in the real world. They are used, among other things, to show how the elements of a painting “come out” of it.

Level 2. GPS : Markers are replaced by the compass of mobile devices, allowing virtual images to be superimposed on those offered by the device's camera in the real world. For example, using this, you could see a dinosaur in the middle of the Madrid Metro.

Level 3. Bionic glasses or contact lenses : They offer a complete experience that fuses reality with augmented reality, allowing all types of audiovisual material to be incorporated into real objects and, therefore, providing a complete experience that is not yet being exploited due to its high cost.