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Augmented reality reading program met with success in California

03/01/201203/01/2012 Stephanie Beck

At one California school, a new interactive reading program is having big results. The Lorena Falasco Elementary School in Los Banos, California, has been using a reading program developed from Logical Choice Technologies, a developer of education technology, and the initiative has been a big hit with the children at the school. Principal Jane Brittel believes that the program is having such a positive impact on students because it uses augmented reality as a way to tech. The program is called Letters Alive and is one of the first augmented…

Fine Art instructors begin to adopt augmented reality to help students learn the craft

10/28/201110/28/2011 Jennifer Goula

Fine Art faculty members at the Kwantlen Polytechnic University have begun experimenting with augmented reality as a way to present artistic concepts to students. Art instructor Paulo Majano believes that the technology is underutilized and hopes to enhance his teaching methods with augmented reality. With the help of Junaio, a mobile application built specifically for augmented reality, Majano has been building 3D images that can fly around a class room. Majano will be launching an art exhibition with his students later this year that makes use of the technology. Majano…

Augmented reality technology heading for classrooms in Australia

09/28/201109/28/2011 Jorge Gonzalez

Augmented reality may soon be coming to classrooms in Australia. Researchers from the University of Canberra, lead by Danny Munnerley, have been working on the AR Studio project for several years in an attempt to bring augmented reality technology to the world of education. The project aims to give educators new tools to help teach a new generation of tech-savvy individuals whose lives will be more intertwined with technology than any other generation. Augmented reality is seeing most use in the gaming industry where the technology is being utilized to…