Augmented Reality

Augmented Reality is very interesting and this new technology impressed me a lot, children must like it in classroom because AR technology makes reality more and more attractive and make some 2-D learning materials become 3-D. Materials with 3-D effect have more details and true sense, for learning these features are very useful. I played Anatomy 4D, Quiver, Arloon Plants and Spacecraft 3D. I love Anatomy 4D best, it makes a body pic become a 3-D exhibition, also I can press different buttons to see different elements, such as bones and nervous system. Students can observe items from different angles for getting more details, it will improve effect of learning and accelerate the process of learning.

For those different AR apps, I think they can be used in biology, geography, art and culture classes. As for main subjects, such as math, English, I haven’t found any specific AR app which is suitable. But teachers can use some of those apps in some parts of class. For example, teacher could use butterfly to reinforce reflections of students, if students can give the right answers, teacher will let butterfly stay around that student for a longer time. Or just use these apps to explore students’ boundless imaginations. As we learned, each AR app needs its own triggers, we can find them in the website. we can also create them by ourselves by following instructions in the website. Anyway it could be a good project for providing collaboration between students and let students get involved in AR world initiatively.