Incidence of the Augmented Reality on the teaching of history. An experience in third year class of primary education

Abstract

In the following study, the integration of Augmented Reality is valued as an emerging technology with strong possibilities of application in the educational field. In our study, a teaching unit «Time and History» of the Social Science subject in the third course of Primary Education has been implemented. Using different historic 3d image from SketchUp software, specifically the models used have been taken from Warehouse as Augmented Reality scenes and have been visualized through the pc software Aumentaty Author. The sample includes 56 students attending a school in the province of Albacete (Spain). From a quasi-experimental design with a control and an experimental group two dimensions have been analysed: the academic performance and different motivational variables. This paper includes detailed information about the teaching unit, defining contents and time of each session. Unlike other similar studies, this work does not show significant improvement in the students’ academic performance or in their motivation. However, students do believe to have participated actively and that the tool facilitates the learning process making it easy and clear. Moreover, thanks to this method, students have had the chance to work in small groups, improving the cooperation and the social integration, as well as learning the interactive and virtual possibilities that this tool could offer and which help them to improve the digital competence and the searching and information selection skills.

Keywords

• tecnologías de la información y la comunicación
• innovación pedagógica
• educación básica
• historia
• realidad aumentada