Augmented Reality, Primary Education, Digital Technologies

This chapter focuses on the possibilities of educational uses of augmented reality in Slovak primary school. Usage of augmented reality presents new challenges and opportunities both for childrens’ autonomy and teachers’ work and should be a natural part of an educational practice which helps children to achieve learning goals by themselves. Teachers simply evaluate the quality of childrens’ competencies and their autonomy and masterfulness in augmented reality activities. Our goals were to identify the impact of augmented reality usage, including benefits on the childrens’ digital literacy development, as well as emerging problems or difficulties for children while using augmented reality applications. Our action research was conducted in a natural didactic context, and our research methods included direct and indirect observation, and content video analysis based on the grounded theory methodology. We were able to observe and indicate the impact of usage of augmented reality in education activities on children and our main finding was an increase of children’s inner motivation for learning which subsequently increases also the inner motivation of teacher for futher professional development and self education.