Page 16 - May Newsletter

■ Aurasma
■ Flight Radar 24

■ Star Walk
■ Google Street View
■ YouTube VR

@SophiaMav asked, “How many of each do we need for a class of say 20 students? One for
each student or can they share?” @Rach_Ribeiro replied, I teach 20 students per group and
two Google Cardboard boxes are enough as we should use the rotation technique where the
groups have different assignments and one of them is the use of Google Cardboard boxes.

@heikephilp said that as a great example for AR is Google lens which uses image recognition
and Google search. Great for learning vocabulary. Go to market and point your mobile at fruit.

According to @ChrisRHastings , Google Expeditions is the most practical tool so far for
teaching language in content-based classes. @Rach_Ribeiro then explained how to
incorporate it into the classroom:

Expeditions has been greatly improved and now it is open to everyone. I’d like to highlight
that there are 360º videos on YouTube that can be used as well. Last week, I took a group of
22 6 year-old Young Learners A1 to ‘visit’ Hamleys the toyshop and name the toys. While
‘visiting’ the shop, I asked each one of them: What can you see? They used the words they
had previously learned: Teddy bear, action figure, doll, car.

@MehrasaAlizadeh added that with the newly released Google VR Tour Creator, the potentials
for student-generated content are expanding more than ever before.

How Can We Use MAVR to Teach Languages?

@ParisaMehran stated that she uses VR as empathy machines to raise social and cultural
awareness and promote social justice.

@Rach_Ribeiro said, it reminded me of a similar experience: A year ago the lesson for a
group of C1 students was natural disasters and I used Google Cardboard box so my students
could ‘visit’ a location in the US during a hurricane. Somebody had used a Gopro to film.

@Eric_Hawkinson also mentioned that others in JALT MAVR SIG have been working with AR
and VR to give perceptive and raise empathy (#RefugeesWelcome).

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