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Hello Everyone,

Nice to meet you again~

Today I learned something new and quite cool to be use on teaching and learning. Have you heard about AR or VR? AR is Augmented Reality and VR is Virtual Reality. But in this segment, I will focus on AR :) Have you watch Iron man , then it will be more easier to relate with what we are going to be discussed~

Augmented Reality :  (direct or indirect, view of a physical, real-world environment whose elements are augmented (or supplemented) by computer-generated sensory input such as sound, video, graphics ).

In Iron man, there are a lot of moments where the main character deals with the buildings and his gadgets by virtual asses to the technology right. Where he sits down in the chairs and move his hands to move the screens to all of the places...hmm...can remember???

It will be very useful tools in teaching the students but I personally think that it will become more popular in the future as the development of this technology is still new and still in process. Imagine having a class where you can learn virtually in 3D about the content of the subject where all the details can be seen. Take for example where the Biology teacher can teach the students how to dissect a frog without actually need to use the real frog because of the help of visual image. This will help the students to see the organs more clearly and also contribute to their experiences as well. For geography for instance, the layers of the earth can be learn by separating the earth segment in the virtual model where the students can relate their learning.

Talking about this remind myself of my school time memories where at that time using slides and computer are considered the most advanced technology that we have in our school. Other than that, the teachers usually used text books to refers to the information and sometimes we will be shown structures of earth through some plastic earth model in geography class and even that makes our learning fun and interesting than usual. Imagine having 3D leaning environment surely it is more amazing as you can relate it realistically to the real life.Besides that, using it motivates all the learners as they are more curious on how to handle this tools and the process of learning itself are very different compared to traditional learning where all mostly what you do are sitting down and write your notes in the class. Using this Augmented Visual mechanism allows more hands on activity occurs and interactive learning with critical and creative development in young students especially because they can see the subject learn in many perspective as they can rotate the 3D image.

Despite all this research shown that having too much reliability towards this tools which I agreed will encountered the teachers job since mostly all the works been done by the mechanism in terms of explaining the content. More than that, this tools availability are limited and it took a long time to produce in this time and the use of it requires huge some of resources in supporting the usage of this technology unless if it were given free to all of the schools then only some of the schools and students can benefits from this. In addition to that, the teachers need to be fully aware and equipped with the knowledge and skills in using Augmented Visual tools so that they can used it and maximise it fully for the learning and towards the students.

Too much of the usage will lead eventually to some learners benefits greater than other learners as previously we discussed about VAK and I hope you still can remember what it is..okay VAK refers to (Visual, Auditory and Kinesthetic) learners. In Augmented Visual (AV), students that learned through visual and kinesthetic gained more on the content and knowledge as it is their best way of learning and this giving perception that auditory learners does not benefits much from this learning styles and there are a lots of arguments on this topics so it means that as a teachers we should not excessively use this teaching methods but need to have a combination of traditional and modern teaching to balance the teaching methods so that our students can benefits from both teaching and learning styles. For me, I will definitely apply this in the future if the school manage to supply the facilities and besides it's cool to use it ..aha.. BUT , of course with proper knowledge and skills to use it okay :)

That's all my guest from me :) See you soon and thank you ;)