Using Virtual or Augmented Reality in the classroom

Aurasma could be used in so many ways:

• Placing stickers on the corners of desks. Each class has a different overlay for the sticker, i.e. year 9 English could have an overlay that reads off the spelling words for the week or which chapter they need to read that week, whereas, year 10 Social Studies could have an overlay that covers the concepts in the current unit, whereas, year 12 English could reiterate the structure of an essay, or how to find the iambic pentameter in Shakespeare. 1 sticker, so many uses.
• Why stop there, every poster in the room becomes a teaching tool.  A film poster can become a trigger for the film trailer. The marking matrix for sentence structure poster becomes a verbal explanation of what the next step is, at every level.
• Every trigger and overlay can potentially be a mini teacher, reminding or helping students who get stuck on the little things.

Google expeditions

• Virtual field trips that can take you virtually anywhere, the moon, under the sea to the resting place of the Titanic, Mars, anywhere an expedition has gone you can take a class virtually.

Anatomy 4D

• Inside the very cell just by holding the phone over the page, want to see a real heart working, no problem, you can even feel it beating through the vibration section of the phone.

These programs could revolutionize the way we teach, they should as it is so much better.

If we teach today's child how we learnt yesterday then we rob them of their future.