The Augmented Reality (AR) Gallery
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With the magic of augmented reality (AR), we have created an "ARt" Gallery that celebrates the educational innovations taking place all across North Carolina. Teachers and FI Digital Learning Coaches have created a variety of 2-Minute PD (#2minPD) - these are 2-minute professional development (PD) videos created by North Carolina educators, for educators. They capture exciting teaching strategies, classroom activities or teaching digital tools worth sharing.
The AR Gallery is located on the outside and just on the inside of the main Wachovia entrance. There you will find a variety of "trigger images", placards and iPads. The placards will describe the 2-Minute PD topic, who created it and where they hail from in North Carolina. We invite you to TAKE TIME to browse the AR Gallery during snacks, breaks and lunch. When you find a 2-Minute PD topic of interest -
We hope you both experience and begin to see the potential applications AR has for supporting digital learning & teaching for educators and students! |
WANT to take AR back to your school?
Most people who interact with AR for the first time have a mind-blowing experience but fail to consider classroom applications. Educators know that learning deepens, not just through reading and listening, but also through creating and interacting. With Augmented Reality products like Elements 4D by Daqri, students manipulate and combine elements -- like mercury -- right from their Android or iOS devices, rather than just reading about them in a textbook. Anatomy 4D is another free app by Daqri that allows users to explore a human body and isolate various body systems.
Classroom Applications
Another app, Aurasma, allows users to engage in and create Augmented Reality experiences of their own. Educators and (more importantly) students can use this open source tool to essentially bring their learning to life. We've seen Aurasma used several different ways in the classroom.
Not Just Another Fad!
There are endless ideas and possibilities for using AR. Find a longer list of ways to meaningfully integrate AR here.
Classroom Applications
Another app, Aurasma, allows users to engage in and create Augmented Reality experiences of their own. Educators and (more importantly) students can use this open source tool to essentially bring their learning to life. We've seen Aurasma used several different ways in the classroom.
- Homework Mini-Lessons: When students scan a page of their homework, the page reveals a video of their teacher helping them solve a problem.
- Faculty Photo Wall: Set up a display of faculty photos near the school entrance. Visitors can scan the image of any instructor and see that figure come to life, telling more about him- or herself.
- Book Reviews: Students record themselves giving a brief review of a novel that they just finished, and then attach that "aura" (assigned digital information) to a book. Afterward, anyone can scan the cover of the book and instantly access the review.
- Parent Involvement: Record parents giving brief words of encouragement to their child, and attach a trigger image to every child's desk. Anytime students need to hear encouraging words from their parent, they can scan the image on their desk for virtual inspiration.
- Yearbooks: From tributes to video profiles, from sports highlights to skits and concert footage, the ways that AR can enhance a school yearbook are limitless.
- Word Walls: Students can record themselves providing the definitions to different vocabulary words on a word wall. Afterward, anyone can use the Aurasma app to make a peer pop up on screen, telling them the definition and using the word in a sentence.
- Lab Safety: Put triggers (images that activate media when scanned by an AR-enabled device) all around a science laboratory so that when students scan them, they can quickly learn the different safety procedures and protocols for the lab equipment.
- Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH) Sign Language Flashcards: With AR, flashcards of vocabulary words can contain a video overlay that shows how to sign a word or phrase.
Not Just Another Fad!
There are endless ideas and possibilities for using AR. Find a longer list of ways to meaningfully integrate AR here.