This week, Microsoft is making an even bigger, renewed effort to ensure that teachers and students will continue to use Windows. During an education show in London, the annual Bett, they revealed new devices that will only cost $189 – the Windows 10 S and Windows 10. To bring a large variety to school curriculums, Microsoft is also teaming up with Pearson, PBS, LEGO, BBC, and NASA.
This spring, Microsoft plans to release a free update in chemistry for the Education Edition of Minecraft. The update will be information that is mainly focused on experiments such as stable isotopes and building compounds. In addition, Microsoft is creating an immersive reader for the Word function on Outlook desktop and OneNote for iPad and Mac to help with as well as make reading and writing not only better but an easier experience.
Microsoft is allowing some content of Mixed Reality to become available for use in the Windows Mixed Reality headsets as well as HoloLens.
Also, the biggest educational company in the world, Pearson, will begin giving out in March new curriculums that are compatible with HoloLens as well as the Windows Mixed Reality headsets. Six of the new apps have immersive experiences made for the students, and although Microsoft is doing its part by reducing the cost of HoloLens a full 10% in an attempt to get schools interested in testing out the headset for augmented reality, the Mixed Reality headsets from Windows are still the least expensive choice for the schools.
BBC Worldwide is contributing as well by releasing a film in March called Oceans: Our Blue Planet to museums first and then to classrooms everywhere. This film has lengths of footage included that were recorded by the same teams behind the BBC series, Blue Planet II.
Similarly, LEGO is working with Microsoft to give students the opportunity to measure topography in both 2D and 3D space with the use of LEGO bricks.
Each of these new devices, apps, and experiences will be open for purchase throughout the year of 2018, all of them being a large part of Microsoft’s efforts to prove to teachers and students alike that they are completely serious when it comes to education.
Source:https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/22/16918460/microsoft-windows-10-laptops-chromebooks-challenge-education-schools-bett
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