Mobile Learning Lab

Well, this lab was the least useful in my eyes... even though most if not all of the students at our school have smartphones, our school policy is not to have them out during school hours... before, after and at lunch it is ok... so I did not really have an opportunity at my school to try out any of the mobile learning apps... we are an 1:1 iPad school... or at least on the way to being one...

So... I decided to find a different venue to try out some of these apps... I was scheduled to teach a First Aid and CPR class last week and for fun, I set up several learning assessment check using Poll Everywhere.  At three points during my presentation, I stopped and put up the poll question on the screen... and had my students respond via sms with their cell phones... the responses were shown to the class minutes later... on one of the three sections, I found that most of the class had less than adequate answers, so I reviewed the previous section before moving on. 

All in all, I think that this was a helpful tool for this particular class.  Normally we don't really have  way to assess knowledge till the final test at the end of the class.  Often, it is too late to go back and remediate a section.