Слайд 1Mobile Technologies in Science Education
Eric Demoncheaux, PhD
Слайд 2Challenges
Overcoming students' overwhelming concern for their image, social status, after school
activities, etc.
Getting students to apply what they have learnt.
Finding a way to get students to apply what they learn, and to recognize how to apply the lessons.
Слайд 3Preconceptions and Misconceptions
Science has a kind of built-in curiosity.
Tackling the
misconceptions and preconceptions leads to student self-correction.
Install in them the desire to learn more.
Слайд 4Teach students to think beyond the text
"Teaching Science" means getting students
to "think".
Memorization is necessary to learn the fundamentals.
To really learn science, and to master it, requires the development of critical thinking skills.
Слайд 5Memorisation of facts
Concentrate on memorizing facts.
Teach students how to use those
facts.
Слайд 6You can't look everything up
You can't put information to good use
if you don’t know how.
Students need to be able to explain things clearly and completely and accurately to others, in speech and on paper.
Слайд 7You can lead a horse to water …
Create a sense of
purpose, of direction and future before you teach.
You have to have a class of students that have some willingness to learn, some desire to achieve, however slight.
Слайд 8Can technology help?
Many schools lack adequate facilities for lab work.
Science
could be “done” online with the help of pre-recorded real experiments and interactive data collection.
Online labs allow to "flip" the science lab.
Online labs may prove to be cheaper than real labs too.
Слайд 10Ipads
http://www2.hull.ac.uk/ifl/ipadresearchinschools.aspx
Слайд 13iPads in the classroom
Another perspective:
Слайд 14Online resources
Lots of online resources for Chemistry - related teaching here:
http://www.rsc.org/learn-chemistry
The Royal Society of Chemistry has also released a free app for ipads, iphones and android phones called Elements of Nutrition.
Слайд 15Mobile learning
Amplify, Spongelab, Edmodo and Educade.
Edmodo allows locking of the ipads
so that students can’t misuse them during lessons.
Nearpod allows to make interactive presentations.
Слайд 16iPads apps for STEM Education
https://edshelf.com/search This link takes you to the
edshelf “tools” where collections can be built based on subject, age of learners, device platform.
http://www.onlineuniversities.com/blog/2012/05/50-best-ipad-apps-for-stem-education/
Слайд 17‘Exploriments'
‘Exploriments' has a range of apps for your high school classes:
http://www.exploriments.com/index.htm
Слайд 18File sharing
Notability is an app which may be used for worksheets
and submitting work for electronic assessment.
Слайд 19More apps …
Biology
- Protozoan
- Might microbes
- colour test
- motion pics
- google
earth
-science 360
Chemistry
- Lab assisstant
-Mahjong chem
- chemical
-chemical by design
- circular motion
-Mol.Wt.Finder
-formulas lite
-Molarity
- molecules
- chemistry
-Atoms in motion
- Elements
-Atoms HD
-sMole Builder
- Lewis Dots
-Nova elements
-Salts
- The elements
Astronomy
- GoSkyWatchP
-NASA
-NASA Viz
-Nasa science
- Starwalk
- Hubble site
- Solar walk
- earth viewer
- Saturn
Anatomy
- 3D brain
- Essential Skeleton
- 3D cardiovascular system
-3D Digestive system
Physics
-E fields
-Fourier Touch
-Angry birds
-Projectile
-string
Слайд 20Apps for STEM
CGP has a couple of good apps for revision.
One version is free.
iCell is great for discovery of cell structures.
Virtual dissections are fun as each student can get involved.
Students can also make up their own word searches on puzzle-maker.
Слайд 21iPADS and its camera functions
StoMo, free stop motion.
Слайд 22More apps
Biology - Gene Screen
Chemistry - Organic 3D, MPSE (Best free
Periodic table app)
Teaching - Explain Everything, Lino
Слайд 23Avoiding the technology is impossible
iPads in the classroom allow us to
move away from the 'sage on the stage' and can enhance the learning for everyone.
Yet, so many apps are 'nice to haves', but not 'must haves'.
Слайд 24Support the learning of others
Taking away i-Pads, or giving them to
students to use, does not make good learners.
Good learners are developed by:
an atmosphere that values learning
a curriculum that provides challenges that can be satisfied by hard work and commitment.