LEAP is a piece of hardware that allows anyone to write, draw, zoom, play, and interact with their computer screen using a finger, fingers, or entire hand. By moving your hand over the device, the mouse follows your movements, the user controls the device without touching the keyboard, the mouse, or the screen.
It can upraise any lesson to a highly enjoyable experience,such as, it can provide unique learning opportunities for all students, especially kinesthetic learners. Furthermore, it appears that the Leap Motion controller has a great potential in the field of special education. Teachers can use this tool to teach about earth and space, students are able to use the Leap Motion controller to zoom in and away from the sun, the planets of our solar system and their moons, as well as all of the major satellites that orbit Earth. Using just their index figure, they were able to pull up facts and graphics about the internal structure of each planet, general information about a planet’s size, length of day and year, surface temperature, as well as the names of scientific missions sent to these planets.
Elementary teachers like me can use this tool in their classrooms, because a number of very good apps on the Airspace store (Leap Motion’s equivalent of the Apple or Google app stores) designed specifically for young learners. These apps can help students develop eye-hand coordination skills and at the same time explore educational concepts. Caterpillar Count is a free app that kindergarten, first, and second grade teachers can use to teach counting skills as well as odd and even numbers. Leap Motion is an excellent tool in helping students develop their motor skills. Leap Motion makes learning become a game, its kinesthetic approach turns every activity into an enjoyable, highly interactive learning experience. The students’ interest in the lesson will become clearly more intense. I think all teachers must use this tool in their classrooms to give the students a good learning experience. And definitely I will use it in my class.
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