XR - Extended Realities
Augment Your Reality with Virtual Tours and Lessons
Virtual reality and augmented reality are emerging technologies which educators believe have strong potential to impact their instruction positively, but few have experience with them personally, and even fewer have used them with students. Virtual and augmented reality, or more broadly speaking, extended reality allows students to have simulated hands-on experience with materials they can’t access in the real world. For example, they can travel to distant places, see natural phenomenon and explore potential dangerous materials more actively than they could with video or print materials.
VIRTUAL REALITY
Virtual reality (VR) is an artificial, computer-generated simulation or recreation of a real life environment or situation.
AUGMENTED REALITY
Augmented reality (AR) is a technology that layers computer-generated enhancements atop an existing reality in order to make it more meaningful through the ability to interact with it.
Explore VR and AR tools to build your technological knowledge. Then begin developing your pedagogical knowledge of the teaching strategies and practices to effectively lead students in learning content through VR and AR. Finally empower your students to create content by learning authoring tools and how they can be effectively integrated into your classroom