By Dr Lynde Tan and Dr Alice Chik

Shortlisted — Educational Publishing Awards Australia 2022 Primary: Reference Resource

Augmented reality (AR) has become part of our everyday lives through social media filters, e-commerce apps, and gaming platforms like Pokémon Go. It’s a tool that allows users to make choices for purposeful communication.

This book bridges the gap between personal digital practices and formal pedagogic practices by introducing a pedagogical framework that will empower primary literacy teachers to add the use of AR apps to their literacy teaching toolkit.

There are multiple opportunities for teachers to leverage this technology for literacy teaching and learning – and support the development of multimodal literacies. The book reviews several AR apps, showcasing those opportunities in three case studies that detail how AR has been effectively used in a primary school setting.

Drawing on the authors’ pedagogical framework for enhancing multimodal literacies with AR, this book is a guide for teachers as they grow their literacy pedagogy, and offers support in developing skills that are becoming increasingly critical as teachers and students navigate complex communication demands in an ever-changing literacy landscape.

In 2019 the authors, together with Angela Thomas, were co-recipients of a Primary English Teaching Association Australia (PETAA) Research Grant.

Why purchase this book?

• Provides a practical and accessible introduction to pedagogical practices that integrate AR into students' literacy and literary experience.
• Reviews multiple readily available AR apps.
• Includes 3 detailed examples of classroom teaching programs across primary year levels, including significant exploration of well-known literary picture books.
• The book is underpinned by the gradual release of responsibility model, explicit teaching and the critical role of teacher modelling.

Sample chapter

Sample Chapter (.pdf 553 KB)

Intended audience

Anyone with a passion for forward-thinking literacy practices and the role of technology and multimodal texts in modern English and literacy teaching, in the following roles:

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