Abstract:

Currently, the Augmented Reality (AR) glasses can assist the physics teacher in the educational process. Here we consider the most available AR-technology, dealing with AR devices and AR software. Almost every teacher is a happy owner of a mobile phone (students too). They may take it and use it right now. “The Teacher's AR-Assistant” is a mobile application for the smartphone. Elements of the perceived reality are supplemented with an image from the screen of the smartphone inserted in the AR-glasses, which enables a lot of remarkable teaching tools. A radical solution of the problem is that the teacher uses AR-glasses right on the lectures (seminars, labs), acquiring the completely new spectrum of technical capabilities. The teacher puts on his (her) AR-glasses, launches a mobile application “The Teacher’s AR-Assistant”, sets the necessary options, and goes to the classroom. What does she/he see? Firstly, it is “the ground (natural) reality”, that can be seen without glasses, and secondly, it may be a flexible, reconfigurable set of “additional realities” (virtual instruments). In this approach the teacher is still the central figure on the lectures, seminars, practical lessons, labs, etc., but she (he) is equipped with more accurate and powerful tools for communicating with students. It may be the instrument to the (revolutionary) development of ancient and reliable forms of education.

Methodology of the study involves: practical use of AR-devices and AR-applications in order to find optimal and effective elements of AR-technologies; the survey of the group of 59 physics teachers; the study of the influence of AR-technologies on the interest of students in physics learning.

As a result the paper presents the completely new spectrum of teaching AR-instruments. We suggest some promising AR-models of the pedagogical interaction between the teacher and students. In addition it describes the results of interviewing with practicing school physics teachers about AR-technologies in physics teaching and some students' opinions about them. AR-technologies are effective for assisting the teacher in lectures, practical classes and labs. The pedagogical AR-area progresses very rapidly: much faster than teachers assimilate the results already achieved.

Keywords:

Augmented Reality, Educational Proces, New Technologies.