Learning Activity 8-A-1

Augmented Reality Games

[Forum]

20 points

VRAG technologies use virtual reality glasses to superimpose computer images on our real-world perceptions, as we saw in the reading for Activity 8-A. Watch a few of the demos of augmented reality games and read an update about the latest improvements in augmented reality glasses; be sure to check out the link to the “SmartGlass revolution” near the end of the article.

In a post to the Forum, write a comparison of one or more of the place-based systems shown in the video to the similar, yet generally lower-cost, systems described in the Mad City Mystery article. In your response, include the following:

• Advantages and disadvantages of each option (VRAG and ARG)
• Which system is more realistic for use in your classroom
• How you might use the more realistic system

Respond to two classmates’ posts.

Learning Activity 8-A-2

Description of Final Project

[Offline]

0 points

For your final project, you will integrate all you have discovered about developing a game-based lesson plan into a lesson plan you can use in your classroom. This project is due by the end of Module 8.

In a word processing document, begin to develop a lesson plan that includes the following information:

• a lesson plan you have already developed.
• If you do not have a lesson plan to use, please go to www.nylearns.org and choose a lesson plan for your final project.
  
• name of a video game and a link to its description
• list the learning concepts you will highlight with this game
• describe your plan for play testing the game
• develop an activity that uses the game
• explain the scaffolding techniques you will use to connect academic concepts to game play

Remember, this document is not due until the end of the module.