Augmented reality helping future proof school lessons
At Gitex Technology Week, Apple is showing off a new range of interactive learning tools designed to make learning less of a chore, with coding central to the skills being taught.
Modules like Everyone Can Code are being delivered in selected schools via apps, books and teacher resources from kindergarten level through to university.
“We have a very active professional learning programme in Arabic and English with Apple, here in the UAE,” said Michael Pazinas, who runs his own UK education company, Athena Enhanced Learning.
“The curriculum is tiered, so if you are an adult you don’t have to learn from a child’s perspective. A series of books take pupils through the learning process.”
Using data from approximately 20,000 telephone interviews with parents, researchers from the Oxford Internet Institute and Cardiff University assessed the relationship between their children’s technology use and well-being.
Over the course of a month this relationship was measured in terms of impact on emotional resilience, curiosity and positive effect.
“By mixing the physical world with augmented reality, we find that children become much more sociable and are also aware of their surroundings.
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