ARETE project Pilot 1 Using Augmented Reality to Facilitate Teaching English Literacy Skills

WordsWorth Learning Ltd (WWL), along with University College Dublin (UCD), European Schoolnet (EUN) and University W?rzburg (UNW) are the main consortium members involved in Pilot 1 of the ARETE Project.

Augmented Reality (AR) is at the cutting edge of disruptive education, and the use of these new technologies is anticipated to have a major impact on education as we know it today. The ARETE project aims to support the pan-European interactive technologies effort both in industry and academia, through interactions within AR technologies evaluated in education in both professional and private contexts.

ARETE project Pilot 1 ?Using Augmented Reality to Facilitate Teaching English Literacy Skills? aims to reach approximately 360 students who attend English Speaking schools across Europe, along with their parents and teachers. The participants of Pilot 1 will have access to the innovative ?evidence based? WWL AR App, which involves an exciting journey through an educational ?galaxy? to learn competent reading and spelling skills to help the student reach their academic potential.

All participants involved (students, parent and teachers) will have access to a free (1-year) WWL-AR App licence. For the purpose of research, parents will be required to complete an online ?ProfilED? Multidisciplinary Case History Form, which will be analysed to identify specific variables that are relevant to the use and success of AR in education. 120 students who are currently underachieving in English literacy tasks will undergo standardised assessments of reading and spelling skills both pre and post intervention, to measure the impact of using the WWL-AR App. A further 120 students (Control Group) who are also are currently underachieving in English literacy tasks will undergo standardised assessments of reading and spelling skills both pre and post their regular school literacy intervention over the same time span, to compare the impact of both models. The Control group (students, parent and teachers) will then receive a free (1-year) WWL-AR App licence to explore the programme themselves. In compliance with GDPR and Data Protection regulations, all participants data will be initially ?pseudonymised? (given a code) and once all the data is collected, it will be fully ?anonymised? in order that no participant could be identified.

The goal of this Arete research Pilot 1 project is twofold: 1) to understand whether or not AR facilitates the teaching of competent English literacy skills and 2) to identify what types of primary school children most benefit from this mode of intervention.

Pilot 1 recruitment process started on 5.10.2020, if you are interested in taking part in our project or following progress, please follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook.

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