And more on those stories at the top of the hour. Now on bbc news its time for click. This week, the coolest History Lesson in history. The smallest car race in the world. And we are with the doctor as something goes bump in the night. School it has changed a lot since i went through the educational mangle all those many years ago. Many years ago. The School Buildings may look the same but may look the same but technology has been infusing education for quite some time. We have smart whiteboards, increasing use of tablets and laptops, e textbooks instead of textbooks, but also there are some systems which mean the way kids learn and are taught is changing completely. It seems many tech giants want to become part of education. After all, an early introduction to their brands may one day add up to a greater number of users. Microsoft this week launched its education offering, which includes a new version of windows called windows 5, a Budget Surface Pro in various colours and some tweaks to its office applications. Apples Teaching Tool Classroom had a Face Lift Last month and now offers more tools for teachers, but before both of these came google classroom. Today i am finding out more about it from the director of learning at tring secondary school. They have been using this Online System for the past 18 months to teach and monitor the students progress. Today i am learning about the Galapagos Islands and the lesson chris has constructed certainly looks more engaging than my old textbooks. But tech can do a lot more than provide media rich lesson plans. We are able to personalise what we do much more than before. We can take them to different Resources Available on the system. Every Students Learning journey will be different. Taking Teaching Online means teachers have more access to childrens individual learning data and even their thought processes. This Browser Extension lets the teacher watch how an essay was written and refined. If i have a student who, in preparation for exams, is not constructing paragraphs correctly i can say lets look at how you constructed your particular paragraph. What did you do . Where did you develop it . What can we do differently . If it is maybe two or three paragraphs and they spend so long on the first one, i can also say this is how long you spent on the first one, half an hour, you only spent part five minutes on the second and third. The kids also seem to like it. Lots of time we can still work at home and teachers can still be there on the thing and see how much we have actually done. If the teacher doesnt believe you have spent the required amount of time on the home work, you can say i did look at the edit history. It isjust so much quicker, handing in work, you can hand it in and within 20 minutes have it back. Using online tools and data is one way to enhance learning in schools. But Lara Lewington has been looking at other tech which promises to change how children learn completely. Vr, robots, holograms it was not like this in my day at the best education show earlier this year, we saw some of the most cutting edge ideas heading to the classroom soon. Over the last few months i have seen quite a few devices that bring together the idea of kids coding and toys, aiming to make it more fun, but good old lego have gone a step further. They are trying to recreate real life situations where robots would be used so that children can find problems and then find a solution. The mission we have here is for a space robot which needs to move around the space base, collecting these pieces together and taking them back to one place. But obviously the coding should do that bit. Using the dragon drop blocks to create sequences that will carry out actions as part of the learning process, as science is being taught at the same time. But brixos vision of what can be learned through these small plastic blocks is quite different. This is a way to bring your existing lego set to life. It has some led lights, a sensor, and these blocks conduct electricity from there you can create whatever spreading, moving, Lighting Functions create your fancy. Functions take your fancy. But this use of technology is not just about teaching ict this Adaptive Learning is about employing new methods of teaching traditional classes. The teacher guides the experience but as a student you can freely roam. This is google expedition. Jen is going to play the part of a teacher, she will talk through what we are looking at in the goggles. It actually represents all of you. The pictures are amazing. Ive been looking at the difference between the healthy and smokers lungs, and i think it will definitely stick with them. The idea of an image in your mind is easier to maintain than someone talking. My issue is actually with the idea of the goggles. They are fine for a couple of minutes but then i feel the urge to take them off, i cant imagine wearing them for a full lesson. Many of these ideas will be picked up by individual schools, but although the ideas and devices are out there, the challenge comes in making them available to the masses. That is something that one not for profit in finland, a country considered to have one of the worlds best Education Systems, set out to overcome. I would say education is one of the few Big Industries that is still waiting to be disrupted. One of the Biggest Challenges in the Education System is that it is based on the ideas of the industrial world. It is teaching everyone to be the same. And in tomorrows world it is crucial to be individual. One idea turns things on its head focusing not simply on new ways of teaching, but firstly analysing how we learn. Well, i am on my way to maths class, which should cause me some concern because im not sure i remember that much from school. But with this class, everybody is having their own private lesson. The teacher doesnt stand up and project their voice to start the session the kids take their places at computers where ai will take them through the lesson. This Artificial Intelligence system aims to teach each pupil at their own pace, and in the way that suits them best, constantly getting to know them better and tracking their process. The entire purpose of this machine is to learn how your brain learns and then utilise that data, and it constantly adapts to provide them with a top tier education at any single moment, and then takes that data and offers it to the teacher in real time. Here the student generates the data. It is provided in real time to teachers, they can intervene when necessary and they can spend more time on Human Interaction with the student, the Pastoral Care that they need to provide to that individual. Teachers can share their content around the world with other people using the system. Any Given Subject could have numerous options the machine can select from, based on the students focus and learning levels. And if they choose to manually switch, it tracks and considers their preferences too. What you feel are the chances . Sometimes if youre not too sure on question, it is easier to have a human explain it to you. But the computer makes it as easy as possible. While i can see the benefits of personalised education, there is one thing playing on my mind. That is the amount of screen time. We have had plenty of teachers, notjust parents, saying do we want them staring at the screen . The answer is not binary. That is important. We dont think teachers should be replaced we need more teachers, but we think they should spend their time teaching, inspiring, imparting knowledge on a subject they really understand. There is no shortage of ideas yet, naturally, putting them to the test requires people willing to take the chance on them. But clearly the idea of technology giving an overhaul to how we educate our kids doesnt seem far away. Welcome to the week in tech. It was the week that elon musk talked about tunnels again. He has proposed an underground network where your car is shuttled from a to b on an electric skate that could go up to 130 mph. The name of it, the boring company. It was also the users of whatsapp were asking whats app ning . After the service went down for several hours around the world. The Bank Accounts of 02 customers in germany were drained after the Ss7 Mobile Telecoms System was hacked. We covered their vulnerability on the show last year. In sweden the worlds fastest camera has been developed. Lund universitys camera can capture 5 trillion images per second. 0thers high speed cameras typically take around 100,000. Instead of capturing images one at a time, it captures several coded images at once and pieces them together into video afterwards. It can be used to video things like Brain Activity and chemical reactions. Finally, innovation to help robots run better, this ostrich like bot can sprint up to ten mph and can self balance without the need for sensors or computer processing. A single motor drives its legs forwards in an elliptical motion, and injects more power when it feels resistance. Look at it it has a mind of its own right, everyone down to the pub for a swift half, a game of Bar Billiards and a battle with some giant bugs. Sounds like the perfect evening there are a couple of things you always find in a british pub. Number one, pints of beer. In some Drinking Shops there are distractions like darts. And of course Virtual Reality headsets. Vr in pubs . However will you find your pint . The big problem for most people with Virtual Reality is space. You just dont have the space in a normal sized living room to play the vr games properly. The headsets have cables attached which you can trip over, and then you have furniture and walls to bang into. That is where pubs come in. Pubs are generally bigger than the house you live in so there is no problem with space. And they afford you the opportunity for truly social Virtual Reality experiences, because people can see what you are doing. So the walls in here are green. That means the spectators watching me play can see the environment i am in, and also if i back myself up to them i feel they are soft. They are padded, so payers cannot injure themselves if they get too energetic and throw themselves around. It is like a soft play area for adults. The combination of public house and Virtual Reality is the brainchild of these guys they have used their backgrounds in satellite technology, it and engineering to create this setup. So what made you guys think that vr and pubs went together like a pie and a pint . We wanted to do a vr arcade, but were Finding Arcades have a stale and outdated image. So we were looking for a good venue to do Virtual Reality in public. When you are involved with alcohol there is always a degree of risk to the gear and the equipment. So we have had to rig up harnesses so that if people fall over they do not damage themselves, and the harnesses also protect the headsets so they dont fall on the ground. Enough talk. Its time to try out the specially designed vr rig. We have it plugged into this seat belt arrester system. It will catch you if you fall. In order to make it safe, it is crucial that cables are kept out of the way. I have a harness i have to put on. It goes on there. And then we put this in at the back. And now, no matter how much you turn around, the cable will not get caught. In your head or round your back. An ingenious solution to the cable problem. Now ive played tonnes of games in vr before, and as always i am immediately transported from the space i was in, this pub, into this sewer. Zombies coming from pretty much every direction. Gunshots. Reload, reload you dont really notice the cable you are wearing or the harness. I thought you would but i dont notice it at all. So what have you discovered about the kind of games that are best to play in this environment . 0ur Rule Of Thumb is any more than one button is too complicated. Most of the people playing have never played vr before and it is enough of a surprise for them to find themselves in a computer game, you dont want them to have to remember six or seven Button Combinations as well. Double your gun, double your fun so this is where nice simple games can easily be demonstrated. Wave shooter. So i have waves and waves of bad guys trying to attack me. The aim is simple. Fight them off. How do people fare when they have been in vr after a couple of drinks . Its a bit like playing pool. You get progressively better and then lots worse suddenly. Its really frantic. I dont think i could stand longer than five minutes, because i am getting really hot and im dead. Well, it is somebody elses turn, and it is my turn to order at the bar. Phew now, does this look like a racetrack to you . Does this look like a car . Well, last weekend six teams took to the track in toulouse in france for the worlds first nanocar race. The nanocars are specially designed molecules which are invisible to the human eye. Nano things are very small. 0ne Nanometre is 30,000 times thinner than a human hair. Six teams competed, representing france, switzerland, japan, germany, the usa, and there was a joint us and Austrian Team. The tiny race track for most teams was made of gold. This is because it is so soft its surface can be made extremely flat as in not even an atom out of place. That takes some time to prepare. Once the nanocars were in position on the track, the teams used the tip of a scanning, tunnelling microscope to propel the vehicles with tiny electric charges. They had 30 hours to race 100 nanometres and back. Six teams started with no guarantee they would all finish. But there is historical precedent here. In the end, it took one team only 90 minutes to finish the race. But they did use a different track. If we had used the gold it would have been uncontrollably fast, so we used a silver surface which is actually slower, so we slowed it down so we could control it better around the pylon. We never revealed the structure of our car until race day. There was no requirement to. We worked so hard to come up with these design features we did not feel we wanted to reveal that to the world until race day. And, looking at their cars, we knew they were going to be a little bit slower because, number one, they were very big. The higher the molecular weight, the harder to move it. Number two, they had aeromatic wheels that we knew would slow them down. Even though it was originally deemed a 36 hour race, then a 30 hour race, we knew we would finish much faster than that. The second team to finish raced on the standard gold course and took over seven hours. The organisers decided to declare both the swiss team and the us Austrian Team joint winners, as they raced in different circumstances. The tech used in the race will help improve the imaging capabilities of the worlds most powerful microscopes and the Car Design Process has pharmaceutical applications for making designer molecules. As it was, in the worlds first nano race, every team will have plenty of thinking to take back to their tiny drawing boards. Ina now, you may remember last year we tickled your earbuds with something called Binaural Sound. This is a way of Recording Audio so you listen back through headphones and the sounds sound like they are coming from the right place in 3 d space. Well, it turns out someone was listening. Notjust someone, but the doctor. And he invited kate russell to hear all about it. Paul, go and have a look. Why me . Youre physically the biggest. Maybe itsjust the central heating. Oh, sorry. Didnt mean to scare you. Unlike a new episode of doctor who that uses Binaural Sound to get inside your head. I have come to south wales where the episode knock knock was filmed. In this spooky looking house the doctor investigates some strange noises. What is going on . Using Binaural Sound, the shows producers can ramp up the fright factor by placing Sound Effects all around the listener, so they feel like they are inside the room with the actors. If you see a normal Digital Audio work Station Everything is layered up in tracks. But actually we can see those tracks on the computer as objects, like you are looking down on a room, so you can see these dots with a Cross Showing where the axis is. When they are put through into the bbc renderer, then you can see where those sounds are hanging in 3 d space. To experience the binaural effect you must be using Stereo Headphones. Even a top of the range 5. 1 surround sound speaker system wont deliver the results, because the microscopic time delays in sounds arriving at your ears are vital to creating the 360 degrees immersive effect. That was super scary and spooky and atmospheric. Very subtle. If you are expecting the kind of Sideshow Act Ofjumping around sound that really wows you, that is not what this is about. This is about a subtle experience of placing you in a three dimensional soundscape. The reason why this episode lent itself so brilliantly to the binaural mix is because is it is playing with the horror genre and the tropes of that. And a lot of what makes things scary i think is what you do not see. Building up the atmosphere to that moment of scare is really what the audience are looking for. We were told 3 d tv would be the next big thing. Well, that did not happen. So why should this be any different . The reason binaural is taking off now is because we are in the age of the smartphone and tablets. People are consuming their media with headphones. The headphones are hugely popular. Even in my family, my kids will sit down watching their own content theyre interested in with a pair of headphones so as not to disturb each other. I think what will happen when people experience binaural audio with tv content, radio content, and then they go back to stereo, they will feel a little bit. It is quite claustrophobic and you think i want that other sound what was that . Oh, thats binaural, let me have more of that. I think that is where we will see it start to take off. This spooky episode will be broadcast with regular sound in the uk this weekend. Im afraid viewers from the rest of the world will have to wait. For the binaural experience, watch it on iplayer. I recommend a darkened room, some Stereo Headphones and a steely nerve and remember, if you hear things going bump in the night, it is probably your pipes. Probably. Wow cant wait to see, and more importantly hear, that episode that is it for this week. Follow us on twitter throughout the week. Thanks for watching. We will see you soon. Bowl and on. And best for sunday sunshine. 0ur Weather Watcher on the beachin sunshine. 0ur Weather Watcher on the beach in st ives in cornwall had beautiful blue skies overhead and it was a beautiful blue skies overhead and it wasa similar beautiful blue skies overhead and it was a similar story across much of the west today. The recent Satellite Picture shows in Northern Ireland, south western scotland, south west in england and wales, quite a lot of sunshine, and wales, quite a lot of sunshine, and wales, quite a lot of sunshine, in places lifting up to 20 degrees, but more cloud across the north and east. This was the scene in North East Scotland earlier. Whereas that cloud has made it feel decidedly chilly today, into tonight that extra cloud will actually help Hold Temperatures up. Whereas further west we hold on to clear spells, that is where it will get decidedly chilly, even in towns or cities, down to 5 6d, but in the Countryside Temperatures low enough for A Touch Of Frost even there. Monday starts like this, Northern Ireland and western scotland again with some sunshine, but bear in mind it will be fairly chilly. North eastern scotland, cloud and the odd spot of drizzle and that is the odd spot of drizzle and that is the picture for the east of england as well. North west england should see some sunshine and especially across the west of wales and into the south west again, spells of sunshine during the day. For the midlands, east anglia and the south east, it will start off likely fairly cloudy, perhaps with the odd wet spot but the majority of it fairly dry. Through the day, more of the same. The wind feeding the cloud in to the eastern half of the country, breaking up at times for some brighter glimpses but the best of the sunshine will always be further west. Pretty chilly on the east coast, but even further west with the sunshine it will not be as warm as today, temperatures around 1417 warm as today, temperatures around 14 17 celsius at best. Into tuesday, watch these isobars, becoming more widely spaced, showing the winds will be lighter, so that north easterly wind that has been plaguing northern and eastern areas will tend to fade away through tuesday. There will still be a lot of cloud in the east of the country. Further west, more in the way of sunshine but still on the cool side for the time being. Towards the middle part of the week we should see temperatures rising with those lighter winds and more sunshine. But by the end of the week, some Rain Creeping in from the south. That is all for now. The headlines at four oclock. Labour is promising to confine tax rises to the top 5 of earners. The Shadow Chancellor says its now the party of low taxation for middle and low earners. No income tax rises for all those earning less than £80,000 a year. And i will be no hikes in vat and no changes in your national insurance, either. The conservatives pledge more money to Fund Mental Health staffing in the nhs, and a change in the law so fewer people are detained against their will. It is new money, it is notjust the money, it is having the people, which is why were having extra 10,000