Using Augmented Reality to Immerse students in Learning

The application: HP reveal (previously called :Aurasma) is an app that allows teachers to create an augmented reality game.

clue: Snowman

Here the clue was: East and West. (grade 5)

Minions are playing when students scan a "Mulan" book.
"A chinese girl who becomes a hero"

What is augmented reality?

מציאות רבודה

"Pokemon Go" is an augmented reality game. People scan an object or walk in a specific place, and in that specific place, looking through the phone, an image or a video is revealed. It looks as if the image is actually there. It is there: virtually.

Using the app: HP reveal (Aurasma), teachers can create different "treasures" around the school or even around the classroom.

How to?

Step 1: Embed videos or images around the room.  

This is a video that will tell you how to do it: https://youtu.be/63-ZF87RtoQ

But from my experience, I recommend preparing and playing it straight from your phone or tablet. But you can do it "public" so any account can scan it.

Step 2: Write clues that go along with the images that you scanned. Here you will need to weave your pedagogical goals into your hints. (vocabulary, grammar, perhaps literature, word games etc)

Step 3: Hand in the smartphone/tablet to students and give them the clues. You can create a linear series with a prize at the end or just treasures that are scattered around the room. In any case, kids love to see that they have found the little treasure, every time.

"That is where we trash the paper"

"People celebrate this holiday, it is not a Jewish holiday"
(The boy scans a Christmas tree art work)

"We use it to learn the meaning of words"
(scanning the Even Shushan dictionary)

"When there is fire, we open this door"

A day later, I decided to conduct an activity that involves
 students videos. The students prepared "at the restaurant" 

videos a few days before and sent it to me by WhatsApp. I 

decided that they will watch each others' videos on AR, if they

 find out the clues.  It was more meaningful to do it as the 

image seen was a video of their friends. 

A student is watching a video of his classmates
"ordering food in a restaurant". 

The possibilities are endless, have fun with it!

Visit the Aurasma site to learn more!

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Hili Zavaro

tags: technology, efl, english, games, AR