Augmented Reality
technology can transform an
ordinary class into an interactive classroom and a more engaging
experience.
AR technology adds gaming elements and offers virtual examples to help students understand textbook materials and remember information well.
AR technology provides training opportunities for medical students and creates virtual human body models that allow them to learn anatomy in-depth.
AR technology adds gaming elements and offers virtual examples to help students understand textbook materials and remember information well.
AR technology provides training opportunities for medical students and creates virtual human body models that allow them to learn anatomy in-depth.
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Applications of Augmented Reality in Education - 10 Best AR Apps for the Classroom
Overview
In the present era, the education process is facing many mutations and revolutions which change the course of
education towards greater creativity, interaction, and control of the students
in the education process.
This is a result of the
development of technology that allows the incorporation of new
applications, especially in education, when technology becomes of interest to
all students, and then education becomes more enjoyable using these tools
and techniques.
Many tools have begun to advance to
the extent that they can be tailored in the field of education in a manner
commensurate with the nature of the learning process and its objectives. One of
the tools introduced to transform the world of education is "Augmented
Reality Technology".
What
is Augmented Reality?
Augmented
Reality is a type of Virtual
Reality (VR), in which the augmented reality system generates a composite
view and combines the real scene that the user looks at and the virtual scene
created by the computer, which enhances the real scene with additional
information.
Augmented Reality is about adding,
enhancing, and displaying some data and elements to the real world through
utilities such as smartphones or specialized glasses.
Over the past few years, augmented reality technologies have begun
to invade applications in various fields, particularly to better improve virtual
reality technologies in education. This helped to develop the learning
process differently with some fun and interaction.
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Importance of Augmented Reality in Education
Imagine living in a magical world
like Harry Potter, where the school galleries are decorated with dozens of
vibrant interactive paintings.
Imagine now that you, as a teacher,
have the ability to create vibrant, interactive worlds full of information and
fine details about their components.
This will be really fun if it
happens on the ground, and it will greatly change the students' perception of
the school and will make them inevitably accept the study with unrivaled
passion and pleasure.
But did you know that this has
really moved from science fiction to the real world in the form of AR
technology?
Yes, this technology allows you to
do this by projecting virtual layers of digital information to the physical
world, which can be viewed through smart devices that are accessible to
students and teachers.
With augmented reality products such as Elements
4D, students can manipulate chemical elements and create interactions between
them by default through their smart devices, rather than just reading about
them in the textbook.
Through the same technology, they can
also perform anatomy of the human body through the application of Anatomy 4D,
which allows users to explore the human body and isolate different body
systems.
The promising potential of AR
technology has inspired developed countries to take care of it and try to use
it to make education more interactive and realistic.
Applications of Augmented Reality in Education
In general, when it comes to
integrating technology into education, the human mind thinks to create
limitless, innovative ideas that make science-fiction things part of reality.
Augmented reality technology does
not go beyond this rule, so there is no limit to ideas on how to use it.
There are many ways and various
augmented reality technologies that can be used in education. Including:
Interactive Digital Lesson Plans
Augmented Reality technologies help to add
more interaction to your explanations during classes and lectures.
Teachers can use these AR technologies to
present 3D lessons and models.
These technologies help attract
students' attention and enable them to absorb more information in less time by
interacting with the elements displayed and enhanced within the classroom
through those applications.
Educational Materials (EM)
One of the most popular augmented
reality apps currently in use is educational materials, where some books and
apps are produced that can be transformed by mobile phone into a 3D world or
add informational elements to reality.
Whatever information or pictures the
book contains, on your mobile phone you will see these images in a realistic 3D
you can zoom in or zoom out with all the information about it.
These three-dimensional models may
be animals, museums, archaeological sites, or even rare compounds and
chemicals.
Instead of paying to buy those
models to see them, these apps can be at your fingertips at any time with AR
technology.
Homework Assistance Program
Augmented Reality can be used to support and
accompany learners as they complete homework.
When a student stumbles on his
homework, he can use his mobile phone camera to aim at the point that is
difficult for him. He can easily watch a video prepared by his teacher,
explaining that point, and providing him with elements to help him solve the
problem.
Laboratory Safety Equipment
Photos or cards with safety codes
are prepared and attached throughout the science lab so that they play multiple
media when students scan them with their smart device cameras to familiarize
them with the different safety procedures and protocols for laboratory
equipment.
Live Photo Album
You can prepare a photo album for
the activities of the school year, such as concerts, outputs, seminars.
Anyone who would like to know
additional information on a particular activity can hover their mobile phone
over the picture to show video of the activity and all the information,
statistics and reports related to it.
Observation of Stars and Planets
With the naked eye, you can observe
dozens of stars in the sky. But through augmented reality technology, you can
monitor hundreds and thousands of stars as well as planets, constellations and
the most famous astronomical events.
Not only this, but they display all the information about everything in the sky.
All the learner has to do is just
run the app over the phone, direct the phone towards the sky and enjoy all the
pictures and information shown on the phone screen.
A presentation about Books and Reading
Students record a summary of the
book they have just read. The presentation is recorded in a digital information
card attached by a software program for this purpose.
This is affixed to the cover of the
book, enabling anyone to have immediate access to the recorded presentation and
to identify the subject of the book by scanning the mobile card.
Excursions and Trips
Many students get bored during some
exploratory trips, especially when it comes to walking around a museum or
temple without a guide.
Within augmented reality
applications, some programs can be downloaded to a mobile phone, then pointing
the phone to the wall or anywhere and then many images, models and objects
begin to emerge, as well as some information that reviews the area where
you are located in an interactive way that helps students to acquire
information as well as have fun.
Parent Encouragement Program
Brief words are recorded for parents
to encourage their children. An information card or an expressive picture
is affixed to each child's seat.
Whenever the learner needs
encouragement and inspiration from his parents, he looks at the picture and
reads the text using an AR-based device. He feels as if his parents are
saying that in front of him.
Flashcards for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing
Using Augmented Reality technology,
you can create flashcards that contain vocabulary linked to videos that show
how to express them in sign language.
10 Best Augmented Reality Apps for the
Classroom
There are several applications that
can be used to bring augmented reality technology to your classroom. These
applications allow users to create and integrate into their augmented reality
experiences, easily and conveniently.
Some important AR applications
are:
- AR Makr
- Shapes 3D
- Wonderscope
- HP Reveal
- Layar
- CoSpaces Edu
- Google Expeditions
- Google Translate
- Metaverse
- Snapchat
Curiosity and interaction
The most important idea
on which such techniques are based is to create curiosity among students by
stimulating interaction with what the technologies offer.
This interaction may be
through some games, acquiring information, dealing with models, observing the
sky and other different ways that contribute to the promotion of the concepts
and objectives of learning among students.
So, little by little,
these technologies are taking advantage of many opportunities for the
development of education, and perhaps soon will be a good time for the
education process to rely entirely on such technologies and applications.