Enhanced Technology In The Classroom - Jacob Walters

Getting Your Students Engaged Through The Virtual World

Derks, L. CC BY-SA Retrieved from https://unsplash.com/photos/bCdIx5LjrYo


Christopoulos, A., Conrad, M., & Shukla, M. (2018). Increasing student engagement through virtual

        interactions: How? Virtual Reality, 22(4), 353–369. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10055-017-03303

Summary

• What is enhanced technology? Simply put, it is augmented and virtual reality. It bridges the gap between the digital and real world.
• This technology has been around for a while, but it has been streamlined in recent years. It has different applications in a variety of fields, especially in education.
• Virtual Reality or Augmented reality has multiple uses in education. It can help spark interest, keep focus, and boost class achievement.

Assess/Evaluate

• This article contains a wealth of general information over what enhanced technology is, as well as its wide range of uses.
• In the education setting, the article talks about how it can help kinesthetic and visual learners learn and focus on the content that is being presented.
• Additionally, it talks about making the experiences more memorable and applicable, so when given an assessment they do as well if not better than those that were not able to have the virtual or augmented experience.

Google For Education. (2015, May 28). Expeditions: Take your students to places a school bus can't
       [Video]. Retrieved from
       https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=mlYJdZeA9w4&feature=emb_logo

Summary

• This video lines up well with the article. The virtual reality headsets are able to take the students to places they have never been
• By taking the students to places with virtual reality, the teacher was then able to connect what they were seeing to what they were learning.

Assess/Evaluate

• This video was obviously sponsored by google as a type of advertisement, but further looking into it I was able to find out that they sell the kits that were shown in the classroom
• I believe that even though this was an advertisement, there was a lot to take away. The students were still able to be captured by what they were learning, and by seeing the look on their faces I think it's safe to say they liked learning and using the technology.

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