In her article, "Augmented reality snags a coveted spot in classrooms", Laura Davaney explores the use of augmented reality apps in two different classrooms. She first talks about a K-5 art teacher that uses augmented reality to teach her students the differences in brush strokes on famous paintings. She also creates tutorial videos and her students have started making them as well. The other teacher is a high school history teacher. He uses the apps to teach his students about different landmarks around the world. They hold their iPad up to a augmented reality trigger and all kinds of facts, pictures, and videos about the landmarks pop up. They even have games where they can put historical events in order.
I think that augmented reality sounds really neat. I had never heard of it before talking about it in class or reading this article, but it sounds like it could be very educational. I like that the art students got involved in making their own art tutorial videos, and the way that the high schoolers got excited about the apps and dove deeper into the information because it was presented to them in a different way. This is definitely something I will have to check out!
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