New Taipei City offers free AR teaching workshops for high school teachers

New Taipei City is launching a series of free "AR Cross-Domain Interactive Teaching" workshops for high school teachers this summer. The initiative, a collaboration between the New Taipei City Cultural Foundation, the Quanta Arts Foundation, and the Huizhi Cultural Foundation, aims to integrate new media technology into the classroom.

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Technology and art have now become indispensable cross-disciplinary abilities. The foundation has long promoted the island roaming plan in technology and art, and technology and art are the best adhesives for promoting cross-disciplinary teaching.

The workshops, scheduled for July and August, will cover two main themes: AR filter design and interactive WebAR creation. The program emphasizes a "learn and use immediately" approach, providing teachers with practical tools for cross-disciplinary instruction. Registration is now open online, with a limit of 30 participants per session. Priority registration is given to teachers from New Taipei City's public and high schools.

Industry professionals will lead the sessions. The first workshop on July 8, titled "AR Augmented Reality: Creative Digital Filters," will be led by the Black Code Art team. Participants will learn to use the Snap AR platform to design and publish their own teaching filters. The second workshop on August 12, "From Hand-drawing to WebAR and Mini Domes: Immersive Content Creation," will feature a tech artist from Duohxin Technology. This session will guide even "zero-basis" teachers through transforming hand-drawn art into interactive cross-domain works using MindAR technology.

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The foundation stands with frontline teachers and accompanies teachers to overcome technological thresholds, transforming technology into easy-to-understand and easy-to-use teaching tools, and jointly promoting students' cross-disciplinary learning and creative inspiration in the classroom.

New Taipei City Cultural Foundation CEO, Gong Ya-wen, highlighted the growing importance of technology and art as cross-disciplinary skills. She stated that the foundation has long promoted "island roaming" projects in technology and art, viewing them as essential for cross-disciplinary teaching. The workshops are designed to help teachers overcome technological barriers and transform new technologies into accessible and useful teaching tools, fostering cross-disciplinary learning and creative inspiration among students.

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Facing the development of digital technology, we have promoted various new media and new technology exhibitions in recent years, bringing contemporary technology art into the public eye.

Zhang Ai-yu, Director of the New Taipei City Department of Cultural Affairs, added that the city has been promoting various new media and technology exhibitions to bring contemporary tech art to the public. She emphasized that the "AR Cross-Domain Interactive Teaching" workshops focus on hands-on practice and low barriers to entry, ensuring that tech art extends beyond galleries into practical classroom applications, thereby enhancing students' cross-disciplinary literacy.

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The 'AR Cross-Domain Interactive Teaching' workshop emphasizes practical application and low barriers to entry, allowing technology art to go beyond the exhibition hall and deepen students' cross-disciplinary literacy.