5 Uses of Xbox Kinect in Education.

• Establishing interaction
• Meet students from other schools, but instead of just talking, shake their hand.
  • Similar to Second Life, but instead of a mouse and keyboard, you’re using your hands and feet to interact.
  • Make students do a jig to retrieve resources.
  • Practice proper footwork for the upcoming dance while watching how others are dancing.
  • Pick up items and explore its features

• Storage and retrieval of classroom media
  • Find your teacher’s virtual classroom, go to their virtual file cabinet, and pull out the latest homework.  
  • Yes, we can already achieve this by accessing teacher web pages and finding course content, but augmented reality approach is much more engaging, and we all know engagement leads to increased learning.
• Logging access & record keeping
  • Instead of depending on student reliability to tell us if they studied for a test, we can access the log history to see who logged in and when.
• Enhancement of real-world environment
  • Forget about brick-and-mortar schools.  Build your school in the jungle or rainforest.
• Student Familiarity and Ownership
  • This is a technology many of our students are familiar with.  In fact, I would venture to say that many of our struggling students spend a lot of time gaming.  This outlet might breed confidence because of the familiarity they have with the technology.