Zientia platform facilitates classroom learning using augmented reality

Valencian company Paradox has developed the Zientia augmented reality platform that encompasses different applications, like Chemistry 101, designed to improve the learning experience.

Zientia it's an augmented reality platform, driven by Valencian company Paradox Team, that brings this technology into the educational environment, implementing a new form of teaching that is useful for teachers and students. This is one of the 15 winning projects of the Shuttle Entrepreneur Support Program.

Zientia encompasses different educational applications that have as a common denominator technologies such as augmented reality and images in three dimensions. Provides tools for all school years, from Child to Baccalaureate, that encourage learning in a more direct way, interactive and visual. All this from a very flexible environment, able to adapt to all kinds of scenarios, both classrooms and home, because it's used with different devices, like computers, interactive whiteboard or tablet, and it is possible to create content in different languages. "It's a platform that incorporates new learning methods, more intuitive and interactive than traditional, in addition to graphics components typical of video games", explains Diego Porto CEO of Paradox.

From zientia's website it is possible to download, for free, apps and use them as a test or tabs that complement apps with the use of augmented reality.

The Zientia platform was presented in mid-January in one of the classrooms of the Julio Verne school, located in Vedat, Valencian town of Torrent, where students and teachers have tried it for several weeks. During this period, tests have been carried out on the Chemistry modules for Secondary, Human body biology for elementary school students and even experimental prototypes of interactive applications for early childhood education.

Chemistry 101

The first educational product developed for the Zientia platform has been Chemistry 101, application with which the teacher can incorporate Augmented Reality technology into his explanation, offering a more visual compression of the concepts. In addition, by using the interactive whiteboard, students can go out for interactive exercises with the teacher's guide. last, the teacher can propose a number of problems that students work individually from their laptops and tablets.

Chemistry 101 it has some gamification elements that give the application an additional level of interaction and allow to create collaborative or competitive moments between the participants.

Two other applications are also available on Zientia's website: Geometry101 and Anatomy101. The first allows to study the properties of the most representative polyedros of the mathematical world, showing them, thanks to augmented reality, from different points of view; while the second is designed to study the human body and visualize the parts of the skeleton with a 3D representation.

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