The idea for Hacking Homework came from two experiences I had in early 2012. First was my teenage daughter with her continued poor homework experiences and second was when I began to really think about incorporating Augmented Reality into school environments with the idea that learning opportunities could use location based technologies and AR to connect to the real world spaces. Last year I attended AR camp in Canberra Australia and this is where I solidified my ideas into something I believe can work for many teachers. Why Hack Homework? Homework happens outside of school so this works for students and teachers with no BYOD policy for students. Students can use their own devices and local areas to access this new way of connecting with learning outside the classroom. Homework is in dire need of reinvention and the 'Flipped Classroom' model is ideal for this kind of treatment. Recent technology and accessibility to it means most students have access to a smart phone, tablet, iPad or iPod touch. AR is now available for most all mobile devices and suited for bundling rich media online content. I believe homework bundles can be placed virtually in public spaces or around a school to further engage students in movement, technology fueled quests and learning trails. Homework bundles can be triggered by GPS locations, tactile objects or printed materials with reference images or QR codes.

1. By Brendan O’Keefe
curiositylab.com.au

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3. Learning objectives
1. Why you and your students might hack homework
2. Some benefits
3. What is (AR) Augmented Reality
4. Best tools for creating AR
5. Assets and resources for AR
6. Examples for using AR in education

4. What is AR Augmented Reality?
Augmented reality (AR) is a term for a live direct or indirect
view of a physical real-world environment whose elements
are augmented by virtual computer-generated imagery. –
Wikipedia
Rich media objects which come alive through the
viewfinder of any camera and internet enabled mobile
device.
This is achived with a AR builder (PC) and AR browser
(mobile)
The future is bright…. The Awesome Web and Google
Glass

5. Why Hack Homework?

6. Why Hack homework?
1. Enables you and your students to use mobile devices to
their full potential to value add to homework and other
out of school learning opporunities
2. Gets students outdoors and into the local community
3. Movement aids learning and has many health benefits
in our sedintary society
4. Works well incorporated into the Flipped Classroom
model
5. Circumnavigates NO mobile devices in school policy as
students are using their own or parent/carer’s devices
after school
6. Works even better if you have a BYOD policy which
welcomes in class use of mobile technologies

7. Using AR to in education
• Place-based learning
• Time rich opportunities
• Weekly homework cards or stickers
• Outdoor advertisitng posters or self made posters
• Books, Library books (covers)
• Rubics Cube
• Learning Trail (tour local area) (mall, local historical
tours) (favourite teen hangouts)
• School newsletter or magazine
• Outdoor advertising
• Your ideas?

8. Best tools to create AR
*Aurasma
Layar
*BuildAR
ARIS Games

9. Assets and resources for AR
My buttons for AR actions and homework bundles
Royalty free images Free icons cheap vector art
Toon characters
File conversion
Rip videos online
Convert audio to MP3

10. The homework bundle
• Links to inline video
• Rich media online
• Research online
• Learning aids
• You name it

11. Place-based

12. Place-based

13. Outdoor advertising

14. Homework photo card

15. Book

16. Poster

17. Puzzle

18. Aurasma is free

19. Quick Aurasma demo
http://studio.aurasma.com/

20. ARIS GAMES

21. ARIS GAMES
• Place-based learning trails
• Local games using GPS/WIFI and QR
codes
• Build in game-based learning rewards etc
• Free to build and free app for iOS
• Feature rich
• Notebook for interactivity and social
learning

22. ARIS GAMES

23. ARIS GAMES
• http://arisgames.com
• http://arisgames.com/editor/

24. NEXT STEPS
Help setting up a pilot, classroom trial
Hacking Homework week Nov 2013
Keep the conversation going and ideas
flowing
Share examples and content with others
DB and directory of AR homework
Hashtag #hackhomework

25. Connect with me
I’m always happy to answer your questions
• +613 9018 7340
• brendan@brendanokeefe.com
• curiositylab.com.au
• brendanokeefe.com
• Skype: ideasthatgive