Teachers' Guide to Augmented reality Augmented Reality is a concept that has been around for sometime now but with the latest innovations in the digital world, augmented reality has been foregrounded posing serious questions as to its relevancy in education and learning. What is Augmented Reality ? Augmented Reality is exactly what the name implies: an augmented version of realty created by mixing technology with the known world. It might be a distorted, augmented, or less augmented version of the actual world but in its basic form, augmented reality is a simulation or rather a way of superimposing digital contents into the real context. Augmented reality has its origins as early as the 1950s and has progressed with virtual reality since then, but its most significant advance have been since the mid 1990s when researcher Tom Caudell coined the term "augmented reality," What is the difference between virtual reality and augmented reality? Augmented Learning ? How does augmented reality works ?
How To Use Augmented Reality In Education When you were a kid, did you watch RoboCop and totally love the heads-up display? What about the fascinating visuals in Minority Report or Iron Man? They’re basically a form of augmented reality (AR for short). Augmented reality is not something limited to just Hollywood blockbusters though. There are a bunch of ways people are using augmented reality in education, believe it or not. Before you get your feathers all ruffled, though, let’s clear something up. In an effort to shed some light on the current tools and teachers using AR, I thought it might be useful to assemble a list of what we’re seeing these days. In any case, here are just a handful of interesting AR use cases that you should check out. Project Glass The most famous AR project is being, of course, led by the folks at Google. MITAR Games Star Walk This was one of the earlier iPhone apps that really caught the attention of the world. Second Life Second Life is actually a pretty old school AR game nowadays. AR Development Lab
8 Immersive Virtual Reality Data Visualizations - Rock the VizComm Imagine stepping into a three-dimensional data visualization that lets you fully interact with the data. This is now possible thanks to virtual reality technology. Virtual reality data visualizations are computer generated, highly interactive, 3D projects. While the concept of VR isn’t new, the idea of immersive data exploration most certainly is – and the exciting possibilities are endless. VR visualizations have the potential to offer easier pattern recognition and retention. 1) Brexit – Google Labs The United Kingdom voting on whether to stay in the European Union or to “Brexit” was a huge story across Europe. 2) Blue Whale Experience – Fusion The blue whale is the largest animal on the planet. 3) Titans of Space – Oculus Rift DK2 Titans of Space 2.0 is a deep-dive tour through our Solar System. 4) 21 years of the Nasdaq – Wall Street Journal The Wall Street Journal crafted a virtual reality guided tour of 21 years of the Nasdaq. 5) Google Chrome Experiments
JMIR-Smartphones as Multimodal Communication Devices to Facilitate Clinical Knowledge Processes: Randomized Controlled Trial | Pimmer Introduction Interclinician Communication and Mobile Phones Interclinician communication is a key component of health care systems. The significance becomes clear in light of its impact on patient care: poor communication between clinicians results in enormous costs and, more importantly, a high number of adverse clinical outcomes and deaths [-]. Rich Communication Modes: Speech, Images, and Annotation In recent publications, mobile phones have been considered as potentially efficient tools that enable instant location-independent communication [,,-]. Mobile Communication and Knowledge Exchange The aim of synchronous interclinician communication involves the building of a shared understanding and a “just-in-time grounding” [] between clinical actors with varying levels and domains of knowledge and expertise for the well-being of patients. Objectives and Hypothesis To address this research gap, we delineated 2 sets of hypotheses based on cognitive and sociocognitive science approaches.
Augmented Reality: The Future of EdTech By: Drew Minock Augmented reality is defined as “a live direct or indirect view of a physical, real-world environment whose elements are augmented (or supplemented) by computer generated sensory input such as sound, video, graphics, or GPS data.” (Wikipedia) We have discovered that augmented reality is much more than the definition describes – it is the future of educational technology. It all started on March 21st at the MACUL Conference in Detroit when the great Leslie Fisher showed the $20 bill trick using an app called Aurasma. That was the moment that would change everything. I instantly saw the power and limitless possibilities of Augmented Reality (AR) in education. Augmented reality allows us to put objects in the hands of our students that would have previously been impossible. There are several augmented reality applications available to download onto your mobile device, but few give you power to create your own experience like Aurasma. character or person.
20 Ways to Use Augmented Reality in Education Second Life proved an incredibly valuable tool for educators hoping to reach a broad audience — or offering even more ways to learn for their own bands of students. Augmented Reality Development Lab: Affiliated with Google, Microsoft, and Logitech, the Augmented Reality Development Lab run by Digital Tech Frontier seeks to draw up projects that entertain as well as educate. The very core goal of the ARDL involves creating interactive, three-dimensional objects for studying purposes. Reliving the Revolution: Karen Schrier harnessed GPS and Pocket PCs to bring the Battle of Lexington to her students through the Reliving the Revolution game, an AR experiment exploring some of the mysteries still shrouding the event — like who shot first! PhysicsPlayground: One of the many, many engines behind PC games received a second life as an engaging strategy for illustrating the intricate ins and outs of physics, in a project known as PhysicsPlayground. FETCH!
Putting the World In Their Hands: Augmented Reality in the Classroom Augmented reality at Avenues: The World Schools By Courtney Pepe When many of today’s teachers who grew up in Generation X are asked to reflect on traditional learning objects from their classrooms of the 1980’s and 1990’s, they think of paper, pencils, chalkboards, and textbooks. When they’re shown a series of pictures of those classroom’s from the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s, and asked to describe them, they use adjectives like “utilitarian, boring, and two-dimensional.” The classrooms in which Millennials and Generation Z learn are a world apart from those of Baby Boomers and Generation X. Even the sound of learning has changed in today’s classrooms, from the vocal command of the teacher directing students toward the sound of students working together in groups, or listening to audio or visual content on their devices through their ear phones. By now, many people have heard of, if not actually seen people wearing Google Glass, and more and more teachers are beta-testing in their classrooms.
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