A school in East London is using virtual reality as a way for pupils to learn about places like Buckingham Palace and the Taj Mahal without leaving their classroom.
This week's Swipe visits Barclay Primary School in Leyton, one of the first in the country to take part in virtual reality trials with Google.
The software giant has developed an app that works in conjunction with its Cardboard technology.
Google Expeditions is downloaded to a smartphone, which hooks up to the headset so pupils can see inside iconic places.
The teacher then acts like a tour guide by highlighting points of interest on their corresponding tablet.
Year six pupil Che Barnard said: "It's a really good experience for people to see places that only the privileged can go.
Fellow pupil Maryam Saiyed said: "When I went inside Buckingham Palace it was like I was really there. It's like I could sit on the throne without being there and I found that really cool."
Field trips are not the only way in which virtual reality is being used in classrooms.
Developers in the UK are working on a 'smart T-shirt' with printed code on it.
When you hold your smartphone up to the shirt you can 'see' inside the human body through the handset's screen.
The 3D-animated experience, called Virtuali-Tee, is designed to help teach people about anatomy.
The project is currently looking for funding through Kickstarter.
In recent years, schools have been exploring a range of other types of technology as a way to help get children more engaged.
Even video games have become an educational tool - Minecraft, for example, is teaching pupils how to build and create in the virtual world.
There is some concern among experts that all this digital learning could mean kids will lose touch with reality.
Technology expert Zoe Cunningham said: "I think there's always a problem, as soon as you have something new, that people get sucked into it and they forget where they are. They forget what life's all about.
"Life's all about really engaging with the real world and if we're not teaching children that, that's going to be a problem for them growing up."
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