Field trip time.. With Google+ and Hangout

Field trip time.. With Google+ and Hangout

Field trips have always been a highlight of going to school. As a kid, we loved the idea of field trips and would be hyped up days before; knowing we weren’t going to sit in the same old classroom was a thrill on its own. Riding the bus to the destination, seeing new things and to do it all with your friends was a bonus.

Today, you can have multiple virtual field trips a semester thanks to Google, they have a tool for enabling virtual visits to educational stops near and far via Hangouts. The folks in Mountain View have launched Connected Classrooms through Google+: a project that brings destinations students may never have the chance to experience in real life within reach inside their classrooms. Now trips to Minnesota Zoo, Seattle Aquarium, and Solar Impulse hangar are the first three to sign up for the virtual tours with over 20 other partners.

Education is better grasped with interaction and visual effects; making this form of education a revolutionary form of our children being taught the various subjects that this beautiful earth has to teach us. Schools across the nation should embrace this form of field trips as it is cost efficient, less liability for the children’s safety and most of all, a great way to connect the world and classrooms. Google and Google+ are innovators in the field of technology and its nice to see them better our education system along the way.

If you are an educator, in the educations field of work, or simply know of someone who is, spread the word about Google and Hangouts and how they are making the education of our country better with integration of technology in the classroom. Sure it’s some will argue that its not like the real thing, but education is something that’s heavily debated and to incorporate tactics and technology to propel is a great gesture by the tech giant Google.