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It is crucial to integrate digital technologies into classrooms to captivate students. In the education industry, virtual and augmented reality are taking over traditional methods of educating students and engaging them more than ever before. The most important question is which should you choose: VR or AR?
So, what’s the difference?
First, let’s get it straight with VR and AR implications on education. They differ in many ways like visual device, user experience, access and content. Virtual Reality is the experience of a fully artificial environment. By wearing a headset and controllers, a person immerses themselves in a virtual world until all reality is replaced. On the contrary, the goal of Augmented Reality is to blend digital objects and real-world content. Amazing, right?
Additionally, VR implies a complete immersion of usually at-home experience using specialised equipment to isolate users from the outside world. While AR adds digital elements to the live image using ubiquitous smartphones and tablets regardless of the student’s location.
AR is More Convenient For Education?
As we see, AR is more accessible in education. Not only it aids the educators to engage students into classrooms but the technology is widely available. Utilisation of Augmented Reality in the material teaching and learning improves students’ collaboration and teamwork skills. Plus, it doesn’t require any no special equipment or experience hardware, AR is immediately available for any smartphone or tablet. Sounds perfect, doesn’t it?
So, how can CleverBooks help? We already know that in the classroom, Augmented Reality enables educators to visually demonstrate concepts and students to test their knowledge in practice. That’s why we, CleverBooks created a ready-to-use solution – Augmented Classroom, an easy way to engage your K-12 students.
Become a tech-savvy digital facilitator equipped with fun & easy-to-use EdTech today! To learn more about Augmented reality, check out Cleverbooks Augmented Classroom and create your free account.
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