Applying Mobile Augmented Reality on Elementary School’s Energy Education

• Main Authors: Lai, Mei-Chun, 賴美君
• Other Authors: Wang, Chang-Hwa
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/11234178850164811451

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 圖文傳播學系 === 103 === Currently in Taiwan, one of the most attractive ways to teach the concept of “energy” for elementary school students is using interactive teaching aids, such as toy cars powered by solar energy. Students pay more attention to interactive aids, so as to stimulate their learning motivations toward learning subjects. Unfortunately, to assemble physical teaching aids have been found to be so time-consuming that was difficult to be embedded in a regular lesson unit. Taking the advantage of mixing virtual images onto the real objects, an augmented reality (AR) learning aid does not need to take much time to assemble the physical parts, therefore considered to be an alternative for aiding elementary students in learning energy concepts. This study assumes that applying AR techniques in teaching energy concepts would be more efficient for both teachers and students. In this study, we developed an energy saving learning unit that is closely related to students’ daily lives to verify our assumption. We used “Aurasma”, a free APP for creating interactive AR, to design the AR-facilitated learning module, which is able to help students identify preset electrical appliances in the classroom and show their power consumption and carbon emissions. Finally, we practically implemented our mobile AR learning module in elementary schools and resulted as follows: I.The course implemented our mobile AR learning module successfully brought out students’ good learning performance and aroused their learning motivations. II.Both teachers and students agreed that our mobile AR learning module is helpful in understanding energy concepts.