Gail Millin-Chalabi

Geodata Research & Development Officer

Learning, Teaching and Professional Skills (LTaPS)

AR @ Mimas

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Presentation Overview

• Fabulous Frogs app: Splendid & Native:

Primary school children

• Linking into the National Curriculum

• Working with Manchester Museum Vivarium

• UKMap app: Engaging high school children with

maps

• Test run at the Science & Engineering

Technology Fair

• AR in the City app: FE & HE

• Helping students to understand social

statistics

• Not just AR – work sheets on evaluating

Crime, Housing & Family statistics

What is AR?

Augmented Reality (AR) is a

term for superimposing

computer graphics over a live

view of the real world

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Fabulous Frogs app: Splendid & NativeAR app targeted at 7 – 11 years

Curriculum

• Maps to Key Stage 2 of the National

Curriculum in England & Wales

• Maps to “responsible citizens” and

“successful learners” capcities of the

Scottish Curriculum for Excellence

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Learning Outcomes

• Key facts about the Splendid Leaf Frog – what it looks like; where they live; what they like to

eat

• Understanding frog anatomy

• Frog life cycle – comparisons between Splendid Leaf Frog and the native Common Frog

including quick quiz questions for each stage of the life cycle

• How they can help to look after frogs by taking care of the environment

Fabulous Frogs app: Splendid & NativeCollaboration with Manchester Museum - Vivarium

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Benefits of Collaboration

• Working with specialists in their field: Curator of Herpetology –

Andrew Gray & Vivarium Assistant – Adam Bland

• Provide high quality content for app

• Chris Mattison photograph of Splendid Leaf Frog (gave

permission to use for this app)

• David Attenborough clip of Splendid Leaf Frog (taken

after Vivarium visit in Spring 2014)

• Suggestions for implementation in Vivarium gallery space

• Opportunities to promote app at Big Saturday events

(child/parent feedback)

• Potential to work with Education Team at Manchester Museum to

interegrate the app into school visits/ promote to teachers

• Link the app to current well know resources such as Frog Blog

• The app will promote current Vivarium work such as Sponsor a Frog

and Frog Blog.

UKMap appHigh School: 12 – 16 years

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• Tested at the National Science and Engineering Fair in March 2013• Pupils can flick between mapping layers

of building heights and retail classifications

• Key provided and explanation of terms used

• Make mapping data more engaging, fun and interactive but teaching them the skill of reading and extracting information from several map layers

• A quiz sheet was provided where pupils had to find the answers to the questions using the app

• Gave pupils access to high quality commercial datasets from The GeoInformation Group (TGG)

AR in the City appFE & HE Sociology Undergraduates

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What?To make evaluating & working with statistics more accessible to sociology students.

Who?Mimas – Led by Matt RamirezBritish Sociological Association – Judith MuddBritish Society of Criminology – Helen Jones

Why?• Sociology students can embark on a degree without obtaining a Grade C at GCSE level• Many find statistical analysis difficult to understand

How?• This app eases students into the world of stats by engaging them in debate around the data

presented to them using worksheets developed for the app • Visualised using monopoly pieces for an iconic area of London the facts & figures are

presented in an informal way

Thanks for ListeningFind out more @ http://teamscarlet.wordpress.com/

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