Augmented reality and environmental education: strategy for greater awareness

Abstract

Introduction: augmented reality offers broad possibilities as educational technology, it is a way to interact with physical reality in real time, improving people's perspective on dissimilar topics. Objective: characterize the impact of augmented reality for the improvement of environmental health. Method: a review of the available literature was carried out using synthetic and historical-logical analytical methods using articles recovered from databases such as SciELO, Dialnet, Scopus, Researchgate, recovering a total of 16 reference articles from available literature related to the topic. in question, included in the time frame between 2019 and 2024. Results: the ecological crisis is currently the greatest challenge that human beings face, the integration of emerging technologies, such as augmented reality (AR), to the teaching and learning process facilitates, favors and motivates learning, thus having a strong educational impact of technology and specifically AR towards raising awareness of the population about environmental problems, a healthier ecosystem can be achieved, many people have the wrong idea about technology and the environment, pitting one against the other most of the times. Conclusions: augmented reality constitutes a powerful tool with a strong impact on the teaching and learning process that allows different population groups to become aware of a primary issue such as environmental health, influencing in turn the behavior of people in care. of the ecosystem.