Discover how the Google Lens app can help you explore the world around you. Use your phone's camera to search what you see in an entirely new way.
Type of Material:
Development Tool
Recommended Uses:
The app can be used by classroom teachers in order to have students explore different situations. In a biology class, they can take pictures of different flowers or plants and find out their names. Students in a Math class can easily consult the resolution of an exercise whenever they are stuck in trying to solving it. The app can also be used by any user of google store. They can take pictures of whichever they want and search more information about that specific object.
Real-time research with class readings and instructional support of math problems.
Translation tools can support learners in diverse environments.
The text to read has remediation opportunities for struggling readers and those that are auditory learners.
Technical Requirements:
Requires Android
6.0 and up
*Note: iOS users would need to download the Google App and access Google Lens by clicking on the camera icon in the search bar.
Identify Major Learning Goals:
Users can utilize a variety of tools such as translate, text, search, homework, shopping, places, and dining through the camera (visual intelligence) tools and can enhance educational applications with text-based materials and objects.
Google lens' goal is to provide users with a complete number of options to discover the world throught the capture of images.
Target Student Population:
Middle School, High School, College General Ed, College Lower Division, College Upper Division, Professional
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:
Skill: Familiarity with camera feature of mobile device/tablet.
Content Quality
Rating:
Strengths:
The app has not originally been created for pedagogical purposes. However, after analyzing the functions, one can orient its usage to educative purposes. For example, teachers can incorporate some features of the app in math lessons. They may encourage students to figure out the solution of a certain math assingment whenever they get stuck in solving the operation. If the class is made up of multilingual students, teachers can encourage learners to pick chunks of instructions so that the app helps to translate into their native language. It is relevant that teachers clarify the translation will not be fully accurate, but at least, the learner will have an idea.
In general, the app can be used in any field of teaching.
This is a fluid resource that could support a variety of content areas; however, it really is up to the practitioner to maximize the tool for its learners.
Concerns:
Ther are opportunities for learners (within the homework feature) to circumvent the actual skill for the answer. While we want to utilize tools for instructional support, it could become a crutch to avoid the mechanics of the learning outcomes.
Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool
Rating:
Strengths:
This material can be used in a variety of ways to achieve teaching and learning goals. In addition, the learning material can be readily integrated into the curriculum and pedagogy of the discipline.
Concerns:
The application of this tool is more consumer/social in nature because it is broad in its features. It does not promote conceptual understanding, as there are no defined learning outcomes to develop effectiveness as a teaching tool.
Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty
Rating:
Strengths:
Google Lens is a simple tool to use, as it is embedded within the photo application. The software enhances the user interface because it is easy to navigate, and do not require any instruction beyond selecting the lens feature and snapping the picture.
The app is very intuitive. Once you download it, you will easy figure out the different functions it contains. Tutorials are at one click on Youtube as well.
Concerns:
There are no parental or filters to prevent access to inappropriate content.
Creative Commons:
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