TIC & Educación

It may not be quite ‘mainstream’ yet, but Google Glass is still growing, both in number of users and overall popularity. The idea of having a heads up display in front of you while you move through your day brings a lot of different options – but how can we put that to use in a classroom? We’ve written a few different things on Google Glass (and other wearable technology) in the classroom,

From Aurasma to Google Glass, augmented reality tools are all around us. Although I've had an invitation to buy Google Glass, I haven't been convinced that it is a good use of my money until today. Student AR is a new augmented reality application that works in Google Glass. The app allows you to simply look at a student, snap a picture, and record an observation about that student's behavior. All of your observations can be synced to your ClassCharts, ClassDojo, or Edmodo account where students and their parents can access all of your observations.

I’ve been lucky to be a member of the Google Glass Explorer Program for the past year. I was excited to learn about how this technology could be advanced in terms of education and everyday activities… however it never dawned on me how much potential it truly had until I began the Explorer Program. Over the past year using Glass in class I have began to see the potential not only in education, but also for the everyday consumer. Right now Google glass is expensive and limited among education and consumers…but it is a technology that is moving towards being more cost efficient for all users. (Cost to Build Google Glass) This is why, as educators, we need to take a more in depth look at how this technology will reform education as a whole.

La edición del MWC de este año no sólo se está hablando de telefonía móvil, ya que los dispositivoswearables también tienen su parte de protagonismo. En este sentido, uno de los dispositivos wearablesmás conocidos son las gafas de realidad aumentada de Google, las Google Glass, las cuales están aumentado sus posibilidades de uso gracias a las tecnologías y aplicaciones de terceros, entre los que se encuentra Blippar, especializada en el rápido reconocimiento de imágenes y en la realidad aumentada en la publicidad móvil.

We've been talking how to use Google Glass in education for several months. But this is the first time we've seen a clearly laid out infographic that's so useful!