The educational possibilities of augmented and virtual reality technologies

The article reveals the role and place of augmented and virtual reality technologies in classroom and extracurricular activities. Despite the fact that, as educational practice shows, these technologies have a number of advantages over traditional teaching methods, there are a number of problems of their effective implementation in the educational process. In particular, many teachers experience difficulties in using AR technologies in their professional activities, associated with determining their place and role in the specific circumstances of the educational process. The aim of the work is to study the possibilities of using augmented and virtual reality technologies as an innovative technology for organizing the educational process in real school practice. The text discusses various approaches to the implementation of these technologies in the educational space of the school, technological and methodological features of their development within the school informatics course, gives a comparative description of programs and applications for creating augmented reality, presents the development of some elements of augmented reality and reveals the methodological features of their use in lessons and extracurricular activities. As a result of the study, it became possible to consider AR/VR-technologies as an integral part of school educational tools.