Pokemon Go can help students develop help seemingly skills communication - the Irish News

a number of mobile augmented reality like Pokemon can improve communication skills of a person, but a researcher sees otherwise go to map.

Emily Howell, assistant professor at the University of Iowa, whose specialty is literacy and education, wrote a paper, like Pokémon Go can help promote learning in the classroom.

She said the game by the developer of the software US Niantic created different types of communications integrated - such as gestures, signs and visual effects - it is a good learning tool for students of the school.

Howell, Pokémon Go "shows the need to include multimodal text what the way we communicate with others. "

multimodal learning goes beyond the traditional classroom teaching methods, to identify the student.

Pokemon Go, so many mobile games and video players Howell described as "just in time learning" are.

It is believed that it is a part of the program, teachers can ask students questions at stake to identify, find answers and their results in different formats to communicate - such as video or graphics.

He also added that students in Pokemon Go, get involved, which has the world average of 65 million monthly active users, making them more interesting and helps students with their work tasks.

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"It is important to give students choices that really have meaning in their lives," Howell said.

"We need to encourage them to develop questions to explore the answers and then share this information in writing. "

Howell believes games like Pokemon Go - where the virtual world meets the real world - as well as traditional textbooks note add professional skills.

"We have no text or email; we have a live video chat or conference, "he said.

"Time Teachers can find something that students are already doing, and in multimodal form what advantage to take this interest and teach students about the potential of the tool.

"It's not enough students to provide the technology and let them play, it's really the principle that the interaction so that they can bring meaning to the expression. "

Howell received a scholarship primary school teachers integrate technology into their help in Iowa is written.

The research is published in the reading teacher.