Wearable learning: How Google Glass is changing education?

Wearable computers have become very popular among consumers last year. The emergence of new types of devices (including bracelets, watches, clothing and glasses) can significantly change our society, consumer markets and education. The demand is constantly growing and the global spread of such devices is expected to increase in the near future. One of the most anticipated and popular wearable computer is Google Glass. This device displays information in a smartphone-like hands-free format that can interact with the Internet via natural language voice commands (Wikipedia, 2013). Google Glass is still in a development stage and is not available to customer market. The Glass Explorer program was available for developers to test this wearable computer since February 2013. Today 10,000 people were selected as part of a contest to test the early version of the device (Wikipedia, 2013). Google Glass has the potential to bring new possibilities to educators and students. Probably, Google Glass is a new educational tool that allows using actions, such as " Search " , "Take a picture", "Record a video", " Translate " and other for integrating into teaching and learning activities. Successful implementation of new technology (in this case wearable technology) in education depends on many circumstances. We need to understand how Google Glass can change teaching and learning. The following questions should be asked: • How to use Google Glass for teaching and learning? • Which of subjects are appropriate for Google Glass? • Are educators and learners ready to use Google Glass? Currently we have a limited number of quantitative and qualitative researches on the use of Google Glass in teaching and learning. However, in our work, we tried to consider the various aspects and problems of using Google in different areas related to education. Some researchers are studying new cultural aspects related with emergence of Google Glass. Pace (2013) provides a preliminary analysis of how users are creating the cultural platform that will determine the success of Google Glass. Users are shaping the meaning of this product through two contrasting ideas: that Google Glass will empower users or that it will detach them from reality. Meanwhile, Gates (2013) argues that Google Glass designed to literally integrate bodies more seamlessly with devices and more thoroughly into network infrastructures. The appearance of new Google Glass applications can help consumers to integrate real and virtual worlds. For example, Campbell (2013) describes game application that brings …