Week 3- Augmented Reality
This week I looked at how augmented reality can be used in the classroom. Augmented reality is content that can be accessed by scanning or viewing a triggering image with a mobile device that creates a subsequent action. This action can be a video, another image, 3D animation, game, or QR code.
I looked at the app Aurasma with is smart phone that allows individuals to see and interact with the world in a new way. With this app images, objects, and places can have its own aura. An Aura can be as simple as a video and a link to a web page or as complex as a lifelike 3D animation.
This app can be used in the classroom in many ways. One way is to create an interactive word wall. As students learn new vocabulary and practice parts of speech and synonyms and analogies. To add visuals students can act out the definition of the words that can be display the words or create an aura which with scanned by the Aurasma app it will react and play the photo or video the students created.
Aurasma makes it easy for students to check their answers, but using Aurasma they can scan using the app to identify key information.
Students can also use Aurasma to make interactive journals or newspaper articles. The website I explored gave a super fun example, the Daily Prophet from Harry Potter. Students could experience a similar thing when they scan a mobile device over a piece of text. Instead of the students having to read it a recording will come to life.
This app can also be useful for classroom rules. Aurasma allows students to create skits or display ways that the rules can be followed. When the rules are scanned students will have a visual or verbal reminder of the expectations and what it looks like to follow the rules.
Lastly this app can be beneficial for parent involvement by allowing parents to create words of encouragement to help students why they are having a hard time.
After writing this I downloaded the app and noticed the name has changed to HP Reveal.
Also I created a Aura and it took me 15 seconds at the most.
Example of creating Aurasma with vocab or spelling words
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYm3DRHRuzs&t=31s
I looked at the app Aurasma with is smart phone that allows individuals to see and interact with the world in a new way. With this app images, objects, and places can have its own aura. An Aura can be as simple as a video and a link to a web page or as complex as a lifelike 3D animation.
This app can be used in the classroom in many ways. One way is to create an interactive word wall. As students learn new vocabulary and practice parts of speech and synonyms and analogies. To add visuals students can act out the definition of the words that can be display the words or create an aura which with scanned by the Aurasma app it will react and play the photo or video the students created.
Aurasma makes it easy for students to check their answers, but using Aurasma they can scan using the app to identify key information.
Students can also use Aurasma to make interactive journals or newspaper articles. The website I explored gave a super fun example, the Daily Prophet from Harry Potter. Students could experience a similar thing when they scan a mobile device over a piece of text. Instead of the students having to read it a recording will come to life.
This app can also be useful for classroom rules. Aurasma allows students to create skits or display ways that the rules can be followed. When the rules are scanned students will have a visual or verbal reminder of the expectations and what it looks like to follow the rules.
Lastly this app can be beneficial for parent involvement by allowing parents to create words of encouragement to help students why they are having a hard time.
After writing this I downloaded the app and noticed the name has changed to HP Reveal.
Also I created a Aura and it took me 15 seconds at the most.
Example of creating Aurasma with vocab or spelling words
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYm3DRHRuzs&t=31s
I experimented with this is in one of my other ed tech classes. it was fun and a cool technology, but probably not something I will use much in my classroom for two reasons: lack of wall space and highly tech savvy students. I have thought about making the students create these for vocab, which I know would be fun and effective, but a I fear the time constraint. The reason I fear their technology skill is that it would be very easy to put an inappropriate image over the proper one very easily.
ReplyDeleteThis seems like something I could apply in my English classes! My students love any excuse to use technology, but I do share concerns of students posting inappropriate images. I assume you need a tablet, phone, or iPad to access the app, not a laptop? That would be one other hitch I would have to address before using it, as we have a limited number of those devices. If I can make that work and easily monitor student responses, this would be a great resource!
ReplyDeleteIt seems like everyone is talking about AR in education! I think it has some interesting applications but as with all educational technologies - I think it also has the potential to become technology just for technology's sake. Like stimey83, I used AR in a past education course; we used Aurasma too. If you want to check out my past blog post on that, I go over some of the pros/cons as you did! http://vmw25.net/ed-677/augmented-reality/
ReplyDeleteThis is so cool. Our librarian has done something similar with the 5th grade class. She had them do book review videos and then put a QR code to them.
ReplyDeleteI really liked the idea of parents being able to create videos for their children. I sometimes have children in kindergarten that are really missing their parents and it would be neat if they could watch a short motivational video for them when they are homesick.
Thanks for this - so interesting that it reminds me of the technology to deposit a check - same sort of recognition system I think. I love the idea. I do feel like there is a mismatch for levels of technology - little kids holding I-phones assumes they have some level of tech awareness but to look up the meaning of words? So I am going to extrapolate and think how could I use this with high school students - could I connect words like Hamlet with an image of play actors working? I would assume so. I guess we are really trying to incorporate their natural love of being on their phones into the classroom. However, it really creates a classroom management issue for me in terms of phone usage. I bet if I did a times thing where they had to get so many matches in so many minutes they wouldn't have time to be texting at the same time. I think actually assigning kids the activity to create connections based on what we are learning would be the most effective - they make the links and the rubric would be how meaningful those links are - for instance we are working on a play - can they connect to actual performances, geography etc. Did it work well in your classroom? Do you end up with classroom management issues too?
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