I attended ASTE (Alaska Society of Technology in Education) last week and was particularly fascinated by Augmented Reality (AR). If you've watched a football game on TV, you've seen AR when they overlay the first down lines on the field between plays. I first saw Smart phone based AR a couple years ago and was not very impressed. Well, times have changed. I am now impressed.
With AR, there is a target that you point your phone at - it can be a geographical location, an object, or a sign/marker. You look at the target through the AR App on your phone and there is more information overlaid on the image in your phone's screen - the reality of what you are looking at is augmented. I have the Anatomy 4D app on my iPhone and iPad - it's really cool. You can download the app from either the iOS or Android apps. Print out the target, launch the app on your smart phone , and point the phone's camera at the target.
Here are some AR Apps for the iPhone. Have fun! What can we do with this technology? How can it help our teaching and our students' learning? Most of our students have Smart phones already.
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