Nushu AR EDU

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CertifiedEducation quality
01/2018
Nushu AR EDU

Nushu AR EDU

Minushu
Media Literacy
Nushu is an AR app that immerses children into the current news in an educational and exciting way.

Nushu is an AR app that immerses children into the current news. The product has a comic strip and AR activities around the latest news at the time. Stories are designed to be age appropriate. The main character helps students to get familiar with the current topic.

The service includes a website where teachers can download and print each adventure, and an application that includes Augmented Reality content.

Age groups 
Elementary
Middle school
Price 
Subscription
Languages 
English
Spanish
Catalan
Platform 
Mobile Android
Mobile iOS
Registration 
Not required
Offline play 
Internet required
Pictures
Videos
Pedagogy
Educational Quality
Learning Goals

The pedagogical analysis covers how the product supports learning of the identified skills. The student’s role is assessed by four contrary pair parameters, which are selected to cover the most essential aspects on the use of the product.

Passive
Active
When using Nushu AR, learners are in quite an active role while playing with the AR app. Additional practices provide more possibilities for students to create their own work around the news.
Rehearse
Construct
The structure in the stories is easy to understand. The stories provide today's biggest news in an age-appropriate way. The teacher's materials consist of additional practices with which students can deepen their learning experience.
Linear
Non-linear/Creative
The story is delivered in a linear way and students follow the same path. With additional practices provided in teacher's materials, the work will be more creative and open-ended.
Individual
Collaborative
The tasks within the application are completed individually. The additional materials include collaborative activities to be completed in the classroom.

The following are the high educational quality aspects in this product.

Nushu AR provides today's news in an age-appropriate and engaging way. It guides kids through the news with the main character, Nushu.
Nushu AR EDU uses AR to deliver more information about the news with related short game activities.
The aesthetics and animations are professional looking and stylish.
The news includes lesson materials which provide additional activities for students to do in the classroom.

The supported learning goals are identified by matching the product with several relevant curricula descriptions on this subject area. The soft skills are definitions of learning goals most relevant for the 21st century. They are formed by taking a reference from different definitions of 21st century skills and Finnish curriculum.

Subject based learning goals

Learning to understand media critically.
Learning to understand the media's role in society.
Practicing to read the news.

Soft skills learning goals

Developing problem solving skills
Practicing to create questions and make justifiable arguments based on observations
Practicing to look things from different perspectives
Practicing to notice causal connections
Practicing logical reasoning to understand and interpret information in different forms
Familiarizing with the influences of media and understanding its affordances
Learning to view and consider media and advertising critically
Building common knowledge of technological solutions and their meaning in everyday life
Learning to recognise and evaluate arguments and their reasonings

The Finnish Educational Quality Certificate

Our Quality Evaluation Method is an academically sound approach to evaluating a product’s pedagogical design from the viewpoint of educational psychology.

The method has been developed with university researchers and all evaluators are carefully selected Finnish teachers with a master's degree in education.

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