Augmented Reality Tools For School Kids

19th November 2021

Virtual online teaching courses in Singapore has drastically changed their components to suit the present needs. Now as an online teacher, you are not only required to be equipped with the understanding of technology but also know how you can bring in the right tweaks during classes by using virtual teaching and learning tools.

Augmented reality is not the future but the present. Gone are the days when we are adjusting to these new inventions and the concept of virtual reality. The breakthrough happened quite drastically when the operating systems of computers were getting upgraded in a span of just a year or so. The mobile phones too were designed to be more intelligent with time and now a phone with a keypad is near to become a thing of the past in technological history.

With the current system of education since last year, it is futile to even debate that technology and multimedia tools are damaging the free flow of thoughts among kids. Rather the drastic change has made the designers of virtual reality become more creative and bring in the taste of conventional education through augmented teaching tools.

Earlier, using devices like mobile, tablets, computers, laptops, smart-boards were considered new-age. Now the scenario demands the use of various interactive applications and software that aims at developing the 21st-century skills- communication, collaboration, critical thinking and creativity.

Let us take a look at a few teaching tools that have kept the educational objectives intact and also the learners engaged at the same time.
 

1. Assembler: This application comes with ready-made activity and lesson plans based on generic curriculum topics like symmetry, fractions, flora and fauna, etc. The plans can be selected based on the age group and curriculum. It is payable as well as comes with a basic free sample as well. For schools, they have premium pricing offers that would suit their needs.
    
2. Quiver Masks: This is a fun and stellar way to give the story-telling sessions a fresh look. Students can go ahead and make their masks based on the characters in the story and what they are going to enact. For example, if the story is Goldilocks and the Three Bears, the students playing their respective characters of Goldilocks and the bears can create their masks and use them as filters to be used during the story-telling activities.
    
3. Co Spaces Edu: This comes with a basic free plan and also with premium pricing schemes. The application is designed in a way that helps learners to create 3D projects on any given topic like the water cycle, the evolution of humans, etc. Not only that, once they are done, they can also access a 360-degree feature where the learners can demonstrate and give a tour to the viewers of the entire process.
    
4. Wonder scope: This is available only on iOS and can be accessed only through Apple products. This one lets the learners interact with one another by role-playing into different story characters. For example, the story selected is Little Red Riding Hood. Here they can play the entire story by exchanging dialogues and playing their parts. Each story set is priced at $5.
    
5. Narrator AR: This is an amazing augmented reality tool that helps learners to practice handwriting on a virtual page. Very young learners can use this to practice letters and numbers.
    
6. Merge Cube: This can be used as a collaborator with Wonder scope. This one allows the learners to hold the 3D artefacts and creations curated by the learners. This comes with a license fee facility and the options are for per class or an annual fee if a school wants it every year.

Last, we have augmented classrooms that are designed by various corporations. Upgrade yourself with Teacher Training Courses in Singapore. The one created by Clever Books is considered to be the most interactive design till now. It lets the students not only exercise the 4Cs of the 21st-century learning skills (mentioned earlier) but also collaborate in an intercultural atmosphere with other learners around the world who may or may not follow a different curriculum.