Future Vision Learner Considerations
I feel that in "narrowing down" to AR and ARGs, I have still set the scope of my digital artifact project too wide. I’d really like to use augmented reality (AR) to enhance the students’ use of the library. Going back to my first blog post about how to support a culture of readership and evaluating the needs of the students in my school will lead me in narrowing my direction for this project. I’ve lived in multiple cities in multiple countries, but in the rural area I teach in now, the culture is more anti-intellectual than any other place I’ve experienced. Not only are the people uneducated, but they discourage others from accessing or embracing education as well. Students entering kindergarten in this culture are not prepared for school or learning, so they start already behind their counterparts in other areas of the province. Unlike where I grew up, students that go to university are the exception rather than the rule. Some of them do go onto post-secondary trades or vo...