Angus Chan Precious Blood Secondary School

Using Mobile Apps to Cultivate Students’ Life-long Learning Habit

• eClass: Need to buy licenses

• Moodle: Free

• Main benefits of traditional Learning Resources Management Systems:

◦ Students’ assignments and teachers’ feedback can be collected systematically

◦ Teaching materials can be arranged systematically

Existing Learning Platforms

• Are these so-called learning platforms targeted for students or teachers?

• Will students revise the materials on these platforms even after promoted to high levels or graduated?

• Will students use them for life-long learning?

Existing Learning Platforms

• To promote life-long learning, instead of using specialized learning platforms, tools that are available to most people at anytime should be encouraged

• Mobiles apps are good candidates, especially those that are NOT limited by specific subjects or contexts, with transferrable skills

Mobile Apps for Daily Usage

• Feaures:

◦ support text, drawings, photos, videos & audio recording

◦ easy-to-use

◦ easy to manage & search materials created

◦ cross-platform

◦ online storage / sharing

Mobile Apps for Daily Usage

• Life-long learning skills:

◦ create multimedia notes on students’ own

◦ organise ideas using drawings or concept maps

◦ manage their learning materials and notes

◦ search learning materials and information efficiently

Mobile Apps for Daily Usage

• Evernote

Mobile Apps for Daily Usage

• Educreations

Mobile Apps for Daily Usage

• Vittle

Mobile Apps for Daily Usage

• bContext

Mobile Apps for Daily Usage

• Popplet

Mobile Apps for Daily Usage

Thank you!