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How Augmented Reality Fosters Student Curiosity and Collaboration

ED Surge

Furthermore, it can transport students to different times and places, making history and geography lessons more immersive and educational. AR is also a powerful tool for visualizing complex concepts, allowing students to explore abstract ideas through interactive 3D representations.

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How can engineering address human rights issues?

Futurum

Across Peru, thousands of people do not have access to clean water or efficient transport links. He is investigating the connection between poor transport links and social inequality, and bringing sanitation to a remote community in the Andes. HOW DOES PUBLIC TRANSPORT AFFECT INEQUALITY?

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GIS and STEM: Mapping the Way to Future Careers

PCS Edventures

Interestingly, they can transport medical supplies or collect samples, too! Transportation Engineers: Through the use of drones, transportation engineers can safely capture aerial footage of roadways and intersections. GIS is essential in analyzing and optimizing traffic flow and designing transportation networks.

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Flying high with careers in aviation

Futurum

Five professionals at Cranfield University’s Centre for Air Transport Management and the National Flying Laboratory Centre in the UK explain the breadth of possible careers in the aviation industry and discuss how the industry is adapting to modern challenges. A career as a pilot offers huge variety,” he says.

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How Wearable Technology is Changing Education and Easing Disabilities

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Utilizing virtual reality, students can visit other countries to learn geography and culture, as well as practically any other use that one can think. As technology advances, we often reach points where science fiction becomes reality, and few advances are a better example of this than virtual reality. Overcoming Disabilities.

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Social solutions for socio-economic issues

Futurum

As well as a lack of jobs, housing and education, these communities also tend to lack good quality infrastructure, such as roads and public transport, access to health care, and support from government programmes. For your undergraduate degree, you should choose a course in a related field such as geography, sociology or economics.

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Physical Fitness, the Brain and Active Learning in the Classroom

PCS Edventures

Imagine living in a city and having to walk from one area to another 5 miles away; transport makes this much more fluent and helps make your tasks easier. Now, we aren’t talking Geography Dodgeball or Literature and Calisthenics, but rather, we’re focusing on a curriculum that naturally gets learners up and moving.

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