Week 3: Augmented Reality and Wearable Tech.

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Emerging Trends & Technologies in the Virtual K-12 Classroom

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University of California, Irvine

Emerging Trends & Technologies in the Virtual K-12 Classroom

129 оценки

Course 2 of 5 in the Specialization Virtual Teacher

Emerging technologies are quickly gaining momentum in the field of virtual K-12 instruction. In this course, we will explore how the latest trends in the use of technology affect student learning and engagement. What innovative learning spaces and tools are available to instructors? How can instructors best utilize free and open resources to more deeply engage students in their learning? What impact can the use of emerging technologies have on student retention and performance? We will discuss the possibilities and challenges of using technology in fully online environments, although many of the ideas can be applied to blended and traditional environments as well. Learners will compare and contrast tools for use in K-12 virtual instruction, as well as examine best practices for implementing and managing these tools. Upon completing this course, you will be able to: 1. Understand the role of technology in the distribution of content, the facilitation of collaborative activities, and the assessment of students, courses, and organizations. 2. Identify and evaluate existing and emerging technologies for their value in virtual course instruction and curriculum development. 3. Design and assess a learning activity that utilizes social learning tools. 4. Design and assess a learning activity or curricular program that uses game-based strategies and/or badges to deepen student engagement in virtual courses. 5. Research, critically evaluate, and employ open content in virtual education. 6. Debate the role of MOOCs in virtual K-12 education.

From the lesson

Week 3: Game-based Learning & Badges in Virtual Education

In week three, we will discuss game-based learning, badging, augmented reality, and wearable technologies. You will also have the opportunity to submit your assignment and evaluate three of your classmates' work.

Week 3: Gamification and Game-based Learning11:17

Week 3: Minecraft and Scratch10:35

Week 3: Augmented Reality and Wearable Tech.5:52

Week 3: Interview & Reflection with Melissa15:15

Meet the Instructors

Melissa Joell Loble, M.A., MBA
Instructor
UC Irvine Extension

Welcome to Module 3, Augmented Reality and Wearable Technology.

This module is actually about exploring

two types of technologies that you may want to use in K-12 virtual education.

It's not really being used now because of the cost behind both these technologies

and some of the advanced devices and technologies required to use them, but

this is definitely something that if you wanted to push the envelope, and

start exploring how you can really go crazy with some

exciting technologies in your class, ways to do that.

This could also be a great module to listen to as your thinking about writing

some grants or looking for some funding associated with some more innovative or

advanced kind of technology used in your classes.

So let's first start with augmented reality.

Augmented reality is a way to sort of enhance your experience of the world

around you, and it gives you lots of data about what's going on around you.

It can generally by used with mobile devices,

simply a mobile phone with a camera and maybe some GPS and

you can get a deeper sense or richer sense of perhaps

the city that you're standing in, perhaps a piece of art that you're looking at.

But you're seeing that more and

more data about the world around you is available using these devices.

Now you don't only have to use a phone and GPS.

There are wearable technology devices that also help you get access to

augmented reality tools or have augmented reality embedded in them, but

mobile devices are probably the easiest way to get access to it.

Types of apps that you can find on your mobile devices are things like

Google Goggles, Google SkyMap, Augment,

String, Fetch, even Project Tango is sponsored by Google.

That's about not only creating easy environments to use

augmented reality in, but actually open-sourced augmented reality tools so

that you can build it into other technologies.

That's probably more for your advanced students.

But the cool thing once again about some of these simple apps that are out there

is that you can use it to help students get very in-the-moment information

about things around them.

This would be great, particularly if you embedded it in science or art or

history classes.

You had students go to a museum, perhaps, and

they had mobile devices that they could use.

And how they would experience a museum differently

than if they didn't have that kind of data.

You could have them go on physical scavenger hunts in a particular place.

Let's say your students are virtual students and

they take a vacation or a trip some where.

You could have them use that and experience and document that trip or

vacation while experiencing some of it for augmented reality.

There's all sorts of interesting things that you can do with it,

should you have the technology, and the apps available.

The apps are generally free, it's just a matter of making sure your students

have devices like a tablet or phone that they could use those apps on.

Now, if you want to take it one step further,

you could get into the wearable tech space.

I was hoping that by the time this course would run there would be some really good

examples out there of K-12 teachers using wearable tech,

and they really haven't been yet unfortunately.

I think there is some pockets of experimentation, but

because it's expensive and hard to get

those actual technologies in the hands of your students, it hasn't been used yet.

Although I do think it's coming, and if

any of you have used wearable tech in your classes, please share in our discussions.

I would love to hear how you were using it.

But anyway, wearable tech takes this augmented reality and spins it up so

that you can completely interact with that environment.

Your not just seeing it in a different lens, it's not, you know, just 3-D in your

environment and giving you more data, but it's actually allowing play in that

environment, interact in that environment physically, and it gathers all that data.

It is device specific, so you're thinking about things like Google Glass,

the Apple watch is promised to be great wearable tech, Keyglove, Autographer where

you can manipulate what you're doing with your hands or what you're writing or

taking notes, even like, a GoPro could be considered a wearable tech.

If you're going to mount your video camera when you're experiencing something,

that could be considered wearable tech.

So all of these are devices specific, but

they do allow you to interact differently with the environment.

And these tools will be great for creating either,

creating technologies in some of the more advance science classes or

technology classes, or situations where you're encouraging a lot of creativity or

maker experiences where you're having students build things, do things hands-on,

or experience environments in a much more fluid and rich way.

Like I said, I'm hopeful that these technologies will become more prevalent,

and the devices and the device makers will get them into the hand of educators, but

I think we're at the very beginning of seeing where augmented reality and

wearable tech could impact K-12 education.

So as part of this module, I would love to have you think about how you might

use either augmented reality or wearable technology in your virtual teaching.

Or how you might think about requesting some of those devices,

perhaps write a grant, perhaps reach out to local manufacturers and

see if they'd be interested in donating some of those technologies, and

what might a lesson look like.

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