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ENHANCING ART EDUCATION IN SCHOOL THROUGH AUGMENTED REALITY
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The popularity of augmented reality (AR) in schools worldwide has been growing constantly in the recent years. Many experiments have shown that through AR teachers are able to improve learning outcomes for the students through increased engagement and interactivity. AR tools have been successfully applied in many subjects like Science, Math, History and Geography. However, there is one very special place where AR can encourage curiosity, inspire critical thinking and intense creativity of the students. This place is the Art classroom. The present study aims to investigate the effect of the usage of AR applications in teaching Art. It was conducted with three groups of middle school students in a state school in Sofia, Bulgaria. The study also aims to describe the experience, the opportunities and the challenges met in the teaching process. Every group was divided into two groups of equal number of students – one control group and one experimental group. There were three experimental and three control groups in total. The experience gained shows that AR is a great way for personalization of the learning process and promotion of inclusive, active learning. Two types of applications were explored in the study – the one that allows students to explore physical spaces and pieces of artwork while sitting in the classroom; and the other, which allows students to create their own AR by adding virtual dimension to any artwork, including created by themselves, through animations, video and music.
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