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'Augmented Reality' on Smartphones Brings Teaching Down to Earth. By Sophia Li At the University of New Mexico, some students in second-year Spanish classes become detectives.
They travel to Los Griegos, an Albuquerque neighborhood 15 minutes northwest of the campus, on a mission: Clear the names of four families accused of conspiring to murder a local resident. It's a fictional murder mystery, and instead of guns and badges, the students are armed with iPod Touches, provided by the university.
When students enter their location into the wireless handheld devices, a clue might turn up: a bloody machete, for example, or a virtual character who may converse with them—in Spanish—about a suspect. But Los Griegos and the language skills needed to navigate the locale are no fiction.