This week at The Mind Lab we we learnt about augmented reality. Augmented reality adds information to a view of the real world, think Pokemon Go! Unlike virtual reality headsets which block out the real world, augmented reality mixes the real world and the virtual world together.
At The Mind Lab we experimented with the app 'Quiver' in our face to face session. A very limited number of resources are available on this app (both free and paid) but I was excited to see one that fitted with the learning of my kids this week.
This term our school wide topic is Tourism. In Room 2 (a year 1 class) I used the app Quiver to design our own aeroplanes and take a tour of New Zealand - with a focus on flying our planes to Auckland!
Here is a short video of one of the 'experts' teaching her group...
First the kids had to colour in their aeroplanes, before using the iPad to bring them to life.
The kids were amazed to see their 2D drawings come to life in 3D - exactly has they had designed them!
Very quickly some of the kids became experts at using Quiver, and taught their friends how to make it work and fly their planes to Auckland!
The limitations I discovered were only having access to one iPad and not being about to zoom out on the map of New Zealand (on Quiver) - although the colouring sheet did have a full map of NZ (so we used this to help us locate different places).
I'm keen to explore using augmented reality again in the classroom - as the kids found it so engaging! Many chose to spend their "golden time" flying their aeroplanes around New Zealand.
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