What’s the difference between AR = Augmentative reality and VR = Virtual Reality?
Next wave – XR
How are AR and VR being used in education?
There are many searchable ideas available that will model some ways that AR and VR are being integrated into the classroom. Here are only a few that may inspire you to explore, peak your interest and springboard you into a new inquiry project:
- Let’s Play: Angle vocabulary review (in Half Life: Alyx) – Supplementary, vertical, and complementary [video, March 2020, 16:53 min]
- Tilt Brush: Painting from a new perspective [video, 2016, 1:05 min]
- Tilt Brush: The lab at Google cultural institute [video, 2016, 1:37 min]
- NASA JPL HoloLens Curiosity Rover [video, 2016, 1:23 min]
- Storybook AR [video, Aug 2020, 1:05]
- Jen Giffen’s sketchnote explores immersive AR & VR an educator
Supplementary Resources
- ISTE – Use these resources to bring augmented reality to your classroom [website]
- Digital Bodies – VR and AR: Stepping into the new frontier of learning series [website]
- ARVR in EDU – website by Jaime Donally (@JaimeDonally)
