The Zientia platform facilitates learning in classrooms using augmented reality

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

Science It is an augmented reality platform, promoted by the Valencian company Paradox Team, that brings this technology to the educational environment, implementing a new way of teaching that is very useful for teachers and students. It is one of the 15 winning projects of the Lanzadera entrepreneur support program.

Zientia encompasses different educational applications that have technologies such as augmented reality and three-dimensional images as a common denominator.. Offers tools for all school cycles, from Kindergarten to High School, that promote learning in a more direct way, interactive and visual. All this from a very flexible environment, capable of adapting to all types of scenarios, both classrooms and home, since it can be used with different devices, like computers, interactive whiteboard or tablet, and it is possible to create content in different languages. “It is a platform that incorporates new learning methods, more intuitive and interactive than traditional ones, in addition to graphic components typical of video games”, explains Diego Porto CEO of Paradox.

From the Zientia website it is possible to download, for free, the applications and use them as a test or sheets that complement the applications with the use of augmented reality.

The Zientia platform was presented in mid-January in one of the classrooms of the Jules Verne school, located in Vedat, Valencian town of Torrent, where students and teachers have tested it for several weeks. During this period, tests have been carried out with the Chemistry modules for Secondary School, Biology of the human body for primary school students and even experimental prototypes of interactive applications for early childhood education.

Chemistry 101

The first educational product developed for the Zientia platform was Chemistry 101, application with which the teacher can incorporate Augmented Reality technology into his explanation, offering a more visual understanding of the concepts. Besides, By using the interactive whiteboard, students can go out and do interactive exercises with the teacher's guidance.. Finally, The teacher can propose a series of problems that the students work on individually from their laptops and tablets..

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

Two other applications are also available on the Zientia website: Geometry101 y Anatomy101. The first allows you to study the properties of the most representative polyhedra in 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.