30 Oct 2010
Mobile Learning with iPad in Environmental Trail
The pilot scheme of mobile learning is being launched in our school. It is an innovative mode of teaching and learning which engages high-tech equipment and tailored pedagogies for students to learn not only in the classrooms and campus, but also outdoors through various comprehensive activities. Our school has made use of the CFSS Environmental Trail, Greenhouse, iPads and WiFi system to teach S.3 students on plant biodiversity and basic species identification skills in the science lessons.
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Teacher briefly introducing different large plant groups in the world
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Teacher comparing monocotyledonous and dicotyledonous plants
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A group of students investigating the features of Norfolk Island Pine (Araucaria heterophylla) and general morphology of gymnosperms
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A teacher asking students to work on the questions preloaded in iPads by searching for information in the Trail
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A teacher showing distinctive xerophytic features of cactus which bear sharp needles and greenish succulent stems
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Students indulging themselves in information searches in the Internet and their real experience in front of the species
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Students applying identification skills just acquired to categorize Paper-Bark Tree into correct plant phylum in addition to studying the medicinal effect of the tree
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Under the Chinese Banyan (Ficus microcarpa), a student concentrating on the morphology as described on the display board
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Students sitting aside and discussing among themselves
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A teacher assisting students to solve the technical hiccups when they search for information using iPads via the WiFi system
