What is Mini Lesson

Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) has school districts across the country scrambling to integrate technology into the academic day. The days of showing a PowerPoint with your lecture and calling it technology integration are gone. Today's educators, and students, are looking for interactive and student-centered immersive technology experiences. What is the reality of bringing augmented reality (AR) into the classroom? How feasible is it to introduce students to these experiences in a meaningful and academically challenging way? This chapter attempts to look at the challenges from the educators' point of view as well as its impact on the learners. In addition, the definition of AR is provided, multiple learning theories that provide the basis for using AR in the classroom are discussed, and an overview of best practices for AR integration is presented.