Exploring AR - Augmented Reality
Lori Tyler
Mathematics Education
Explain Everything
Of course, you do not have to make it a AR experience; that is, you can just create the lesson in Explain Everything and students can access your account through their iPad.
AURASMA - create an Aura to represent data
One activity is to give students a dataset and have them create an Aura with Aurasma. The augmented reality aspect allows students to represent the dataset in various ways so that they can see skewness, true shape, etc. This would allow for rich class discussion about data shape, distribution, scale, as well as various types of data such as nominal, ordinal, or continuous.
Layar - Create AR Triggers on Classroom Walls
Using Layar, one can create an online account for free (expect some advertising banners) and get started by creating a "Campaign". This allows you to upload images (called "Pages") that will be used as a Trigger. Adding buttons to each Page allows students to select it when they scan an image off of the wall and it will take them to to lesson videos, practice questions, summaries, as well as websites, where further exploration can occur. One cool use would be to have the students scan terms or models and then the Trigger can take them to formulas and application examples