Harry Potter Paper Augments

While working on this augmented paper I have found some really cool uses for AR. This could be really beneficial for English majors and especially in high school. As I was augmenting the paper I was trying to figure out what to have as my overlays and it became a way to try and make the overlays important and not just another image. I am wanting to use the scholarly sources in my paper as the overlays, because it leads to more support for my papers as well as giving the reader more information if they so desire to learn more about that specific topic. I also think it could help teachers to make sure their students are using credible sources and it might stop students from plagiarizing and it would be a way to check that information out. It could be the new one to cite sources so that students don't have to do a works cited anymore! I also talk about specific scenes in my paper and as I was writing the paper the first time I thought how much easier it would be for my teacher to just be able to see the scene I was talking about and not have to write down all this information trying to explain my point of view and what I was trying to prove. Well now with AR I can put a still image of the scene in that part of the paper and then have it augmented so that it goes exactly to that clip of the movie and it becomes easier for my teacher to know exactly what I'm talking about. It doesn't erase all of the explaining in the paper, but it makes it less confusing and easier to understand what someone is referring to if they have the clip right there in front of them. I just think the possibilities for AR in the form of education is endless. Students can probably augment things with math and it could make learning math a little more fun by showing how math can be used and what it's good for. You could augment things in science classes to see different formulas working out or videos of experiments. You could even augment art and music classes. I'm going to be an English teacher in high school and already I'm trying to see if I can work this stuff into my lesson plans, because it is a great way to engage students that have grown up with this advancing technology. Writing papers no longer seems antiquated anymore and actually has become technologically advanced through the use of AR. Students would no longer hate having to write these papers, I hope, because they would get to spend time augmenting and turning them into something fun and would want to share with other people. It would also encourage students to read each other's works and see different writing styles and have a conversation about why they chose certain things to augment. There would need to be a whole semester on AR alone and it could inspire kids to love writing. It's very exciting to think about.