Field Trip Technology
Phillip Sexton
Dulwich International High School Suzhou
Keywords: m-learning, field trip, mobile, student engagement
Abstract
Have you ever been on a field trip? Have you wanted to extend student learning via technology? This presentation is going to provide you with some tools that were used when ninth grade students were brought to Shanghai Disney Resort for a day of physics and magic! We focused on the use of mobile apps and students were actually required to bring their phones. Notably we used WeChat for communication, Vidometer to record video and g-force at the same time, and we used NCSC MyTech as an accelerometer recording device. I will also share a little bit of my journey in making a custom app that was to be used in conjunction with paper packets.
This is a journey of learning to code and what apps we used when we went to Disney in Spring of 2017.
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Author Biography
Phillip Sexton, Dulwich International High School Suzhou
Phillip Sexton is a Science teacher at Dulwich International High School - Suzhou. He has been teaching in China for the last 7 years and taught outside Chicago for another three. After reviecing his Masters in Education at the University of Wisconsin - Madison he has focused on using technology to reach more students. He created and organized the Dulwich Science Art Photo Competition that saw nearly 1000's entries this past year from 9 campuses around the world, and has recently started developing apps for student engagement.
