About Simon Lewis
Simon Lewis is the principal of Carlow Educate Together National School. He is well known in Ireland for his views and advice on technology in education where he has been teaching, lecturing and giving courses for over 15 years to educators around the country. His blog, Anseo.net, is one of the most popular education blogs in Ireland and he runs Mash.ie, a web site that encourages teachers to share their lesson plans and resources.
Video Interview Series “AR based technology in the classroom”
Everybody is talking about Augmented Reality. This video will have a special insight from a teaching professional. Once can agrue about the importance of Augmented Reality for educational purposes. Certainly it can support new way of personalized teaching and learning. Using Augmented Reality even from time to time can help teachers to enhance theor lessons and improve students’ attention. Augmented Reality boosts multiple featurs apart from personalized approach: learning by doing, creativity improvements, critical thinking development. The main objective is the way a teacher applies it to the material he/she teachers.
Augmented Reality aims to be emerging, innovative and shiny! Will Sexy and Shiny AR Be The Future In Irish Schools?
Listen to the video interview on YouTube – LINK