Augmented Reality In Schools- 6 Amazing Success Reasons

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Education is all about engagement in the first place, and from that, engagement follows good education and learning. AR has brought solution by bringing data together so that students can now visualize real life situations and visualize relatively boring data in more interesting ways. Presently, some institution of learning and basic primary schools have tested the boundaries of this technology and find its potential so valuable; this is why today, almost everyone will agree that Augmented Reality is probably the way to go in the future ahead.

Just as we have already know about the huge success of AR applications in schools, it is therefore important to look at some key success factors behind some of this platforms of learning

1. AR Expeditions With Google Cardboard

Using AR, teachers can now bring their lessons to life with virtual expeditions. By leveraging on this platform, the expedition app needs to be downloaded first. An abstract concept is brought to life, allowing teachers to guide students through a collection of 360 degree viewing of 3D objects, so that interesting locations / sites and artifacts can be explored without touring places around the world and without the need of spy cameras and recording pen technology to capture interesting places.

With this new concept, a group of student excursion is now made possible; virtually, which makes it safe to avoid dangerous places, especially in the case of kindergarten tutoring. Things like adventures and  exploration are what the pupils in schools of the modern world now pursue, they want to explore history, science, and how the natural world evolves, and these cardboard viewer seems to bring these immersive experience craved by students to schools.

2. AR Helps Prepare Kids For New Technology

How do you teach kids about the un-seen world? Call it smart toys or whatever, with AR, smart toys are already equipping kids in schools with the skills they need in order to successfully conform themselves to a world of all-pervading technology; thereby preparing them to be well emotionally, physically and mentally adjusted humans in the world we live today.

Youth these days are very tech savvy, and this tendency has helped many kids in exposing them to many career options, and as we all know, AR and VR are one of the leading learning platform of new technologies, tools that help students in critical thinking when solving problems, providing a cross-cultural understanding between people, give effective communication and media literacy, enhance self reliance with computing and ICT literacy and also empowering them with high level of creativity and innovations.

Now as students get themselves familiarized with AR, the new tech world systems will no more be a new phenomenon and they can hence, they can choose their future careers more appropriately. “In fondo”, with AR, we are expecting to produce future scientists that will come up with innovations that are mind-blowing!

3. AR-STEM As A Learning Tool For The Disabled

AR is a combination of both simulated environment and real life, and on the other hand, the biggest challenge disable people face is the lack of independence majorly when involving in day to day activities. For the physical and mentally challenged students, AR has helped them in getting detailed information about an item they want to learn about by just looking through the AR glasses, and this has been made possible using various educational app platforms such as “Virtuali-Tee” – that helps students to learn about anatomy, another is the “Explore Interactive app”, helping students to learn through games.

Thanks to the AR focused ED Tech Company providing STEM – AR for students with disabilities. STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, and as it name implies, it has extensively helped disabled students, providing them with apps that educate them on laboratory research, and many other subjects including Geometry where the handicapped can play with 3-dimensional objects without having the need to touch them.

4. AR As An Effective Tool For Group Presentations

A group presentation is an important part of academics and business projects, and this plays a major role in learning at primary and secondary school levels. The ability to add visual and audio effects to presentation slides is a powerful tool when involved in project or student-to-student interactive presentations. AR has helped students greatly in overcoming the problems faced when struggling to structure or communicate their ideas successfully with the use of slide show app, thereby making presentations more interesting and resourceful using 3D and 4D video and images as an illustrative multimedia aid.

5. AR As An Entertaining Platform For Learning

Most Students; especially in the primary sector are bombarded with distractions that seem to be more appealing and fun to them than class work, kids are more interested in ecstatic things that draws their attention away from learning, this is why AR as a scalable and wildly entertaining platform, has effectively given positive results such that it has proven to raise the inquisitiveness and willingness of students via a learning process which could positively pave way for learning to be addictive in schools.

6. AR –A Boost For Practical Learning

In most schools today, every department are educating their students using real life practical scenarios, a typical example is in the case of Astronomy; where students can view a full map of the solar system, also in Architecture departments, AR has helped students to visualize their final products while still in the creative process.

Junaid Ali Qureshi is an ecommerce entrepreneur with a passion for emerging tech marketing. Some of his current ventures include Progos Tech , Elabelz.com , Titan Tech and Smart Marketing.