Presentation and Augmented Reality Experience given by Chris Dede (Harvard Graduate School of Education), Matt Dunleavy (Radford University & FreshAiR), and Heidi Larson (EDC) at the Consortium for School Networking Conference in March, 2014

1. How Augmenting Reality via Mobile
Devices Aids Real World Learning:
Sharing Experiences and Design Strategies
Consortium for School Networking Conference
March 20, 2014

2. Presenters
• Chris Dede: Wirth Professor in Learning
Technologies, Harvard Graduate School of
Education. Twitter: chrs_dede
• Heidi Larson: Project Director, Education
Development Center. Twitter: heidil_edc
• Matt Dunleavy: Director, Academic Affairs,
Radford University. Twitter: mattdunleavy

3. Student Researchers
Andrea Flores
Andy Hyde
Matt Riecken

4. Agenda
• What is Augmented Reality?
• AR Experience
• Debrief

5. 1976 2014

6. What is Augmented Reality?
“Augmented reality (AR) allows for a digitally
enhanced view of the real world….
With the camera and sensors in a smartphone
or tablet, AR adds layers of digital information –
videos, photos, sounds – directly on top of
items in the world around us.”
http://layar.com

7. There are many types of
Augmented Reality,
including:

8. Using mobile, context-
aware (e.g., smartphones,
tablets) to interact with
digital information
embedded within the
physical environment.
Photo Credit: SITP
AR via Mobile Handhelds

9. The phone becomes a
magic looking glass,
identifying objects in
the world around you.
David Pogue, Scientific American
December, 2011
Photo Credit: Mike Shaw | The Burgs.

10. LOCATION
GPS-Based
VISION (MARKER)
Camera-Based
Two forms of Handheld AR...

11. 11
Location – GPS-Based

12. Location – GPS-Based

13. Triggers
Photo Credit: SITP
Vision (Marker) Camera-Based

14. AR via Wearable Displays -
From a Unique Experience

15. - To Trendy
Google Glass: http://www.google.com/glass/start

16. Wearable Displays for Education
http://www.google.com/glass/start/how-it-feels/#video=accelerator-video

17. AR via Projection Mapping
Creative Bloq:
“Video projection
mapping has the capacity
to transform any object
into a screen.”
http://www.creativebloq.
com/video/projection-
mapping-912849

18. Let’s Try it Out
AR experience designed by Harvard
Graduate School of Education students
and by Matt Dunleavy
To download FreshAiR go to:
playfreshair.com/getapp

19. Let’s Try it Out

20. Let’s Try it Out

21. Let’s Try it Out
Map View
Reality View

22. FreshAiR Editor FreshAiR App
What is FreshAiRTM?

23. Embed
Content
FreshAiRTM Content

24. Debrief
• What are the benefits of AR for students?
• What are the challenges of AR in education?
• How can CTOs / CIOs support this learning?

25. Message from the Students*
Matt Riecken & Andrea Flores
http://youtu.be/sBF-zLG7jaw
Andy Hyde
http://youtu.be/VpPouvMnf8I
*All three received their M.Ed. From the
Harvard Graduate School of Education in May, 2014.

26. Based on your experience,
what do you think?

27. Our Thoughts
• Ability to present to a group of learners multiple incomplete, yet complementary
perspectives on a problem situated within a physical space (Dunleavy, Dede, & Mitchell,
2009; Klopfer & Squire, 2008; Squire, 2010).
- Direct results of 1-to-1 device-to-student ration.
- Enables collaborative pedagogy such as jigsaw and differentiated role play.
•Ability to leverage physical space as an additional layer of content for students to observe,
manipulate and analyze (Perry et al., 2008; Squire et al., 2007).
- Transforms that environment into a venue for multiple, otherwise unrealized
learning opportunities (Facer et al., 2004; Klopfer, 2008; Klopfer & Squire, 2008).
Affordances
Photo Credit: Mike Shaw | The Burgs.

28. • Students are often overwhelmed with the complexity of the activities (Dunleavy et al.,
2009), the scientific inquiry process and navigation (Klopfer & Squire, 2008), or making
decisions as a team (Perry et al., 2008).
•Challenge of integrating and managing the overall AR experience from the designers’ and
teachers’ perspectives (Dunleavy et al., 2009).
•Limitations with the current state of the art in location-aware and mobile technologies
(i.e., GPS error) (Dunleavy et al., 2009; Facer et al., 2004; Perry et al., 2008).
Limitations

29. Authoring Tools or Development Platforms
ARIS (http://arisgames.org/)
TaleBlazer (http://education.mit.edu/projects/taleblazer)
7scenes (http://7scenes.com/)
FreshAiR (http://playfreshair.com/)

30. Dunleavy, M., & Dede, C. (2014).
Augmented reality teaching and learning.
Handbook of Research on Educational
Communications and Technology
(4th ed., Volume 2).
Dunleavy, M. (2014). Design Principles for
Augmented Reality Learning. TechTrends,
58(1), 28-34.

31. Thanks for coming!
Feel free to contact us:
 Chris Dede: chris_dede@harvard.edu
Twitter: chrs_dede
 Matt Dunleavy: mdunleavy@radford.edu
Twitter: mattdunleavy
 Heidi Larson: hlarson@edc.org
Twitter: heidil_edc