Tech Edge, Mobile Learning In The Classroom - Episode 48, Chemistry

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Technology Information: Royal Society of Chemistry, Periodic Table

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[00:00:00.571]Coming up on Mobile Learning in the Classroom,
[00:00:02.499]chemistry apps.
[00:00:03.759](upbeat music)
[00:00:16.939]Hi, I'm Zoe Falls
[00:00:18.256]and today on Mobile Learning in the Classroom
[00:00:20.108]we're going to look at the periodic table.
[00:00:22.831]Now, the Royal Society of Chemistry
[00:00:24.474]has developed a really fabulous
[00:00:26.436]interactive periodic table
[00:00:28.540]that you can access from a computer,
[00:00:30.212]and then they also have a mobile version of it
[00:00:32.325]so you can put it on iPads or on smart phones,
[00:00:35.271]so when you're on the go you have access to it.
[00:00:38.433]So, when you first go to the page
[00:00:40.703]it just gives you the table,
[00:00:42.484]and it's color-coded based on the type.
[00:00:45.721]And then it has a really great hover over feature,
[00:00:48.391]so if we go to hydrogen and you hover over it
[00:00:52.291]it tells you some quick facts about it.
[00:00:56.344]Then if you click on it
[00:00:59.478]it's going to give you more information
[00:01:01.448]on that specific element.
[00:01:02.829]So, it gives you the same information
[00:01:04.136]you saw in the hover over,
[00:01:05.970]and then it just expands that information.
[00:01:09.257]So, fact boxes, melting points, boiling points, densities,
[00:01:15.017]and then uses and properties.
[00:01:17.301]So again, if you have a student that
[00:01:19.017]they're learning chemistry,
[00:01:20.389]it's their intro to chemistry class,
[00:01:22.090]it's kind of a one stop shop for information they need.
[00:01:25.872]I think it would be a great way for them
[00:01:27.373]to be able to review the material.
[00:01:29.558]It's color-coded, they get to interact with it.
[00:01:33.004]They could do it in pairs or table groups
[00:01:35.296]and quiz each other.
[00:01:38.469]Then it goes through and it gives you
[00:01:40.617]history about it, atomic data,
[00:01:44.039]a whole bunch of other stuff that I think I personally
[00:01:45.991]would have to know more about chemistry
[00:01:47.485]to really appreciate.
[00:01:49.171]But one of the things I like about it
[00:01:50.637]is this resource area.
[00:01:52.999]So, the resources extends beyond
[00:01:55.599]just sort of facts and figures about hydrogen.
[00:01:58.742]It talks about
[00:02:00.986]engaging students in the chemistry of tattoos.
[00:02:03.985]What a way to get students that maybe are like,
[00:02:06.585]"But chemistry and the periodic are scary."
[00:02:09.456]Remember when I took chemistry I was really excited
[00:02:11.415]that my TI-89, I could upload an app,
[00:02:14.901]and this is old school uploading an app
[00:02:16.817]that had a periodic table on it.
[00:02:18.614]And it was sort of interactive,
[00:02:20.083]but it gave five things about it
[00:02:22.005]and they were never the five things that were on the test.
[00:02:24.802]But I felt better about having it.
[00:02:26.765]But here the students are able to get some
[00:02:30.319]different perspectives
[00:02:31.482]and get some more real world, like,
[00:02:33.245]why do I need to know about hydrogen?
[00:02:36.243]Well, tattooing.
[00:02:38.625]And even if they're not explicitly interested
[00:02:40.441]in tattooing itself, right,
[00:02:42.967]it's kind of a different, funky way
[00:02:44.863]to get them thinking about chemistry.
[00:02:47.932]And so again, they can go through
[00:02:48.977]and they can read the little article about it.
[00:02:51.865]And it talks about how hydrogen
[00:02:56.774]interacts with tattooing.
[00:03:02.108]Again, different sorts of resources for them.
[00:03:06.804]Again, as a teacher you could kind of
[00:03:08.487]pre-sort through and maybe
[00:03:10.370]have the students look at specific ones,
[00:03:12.886]and then choose one on their own.
[00:03:14.656]So, if there was something more specific
[00:03:16.362]that you needed them to look at
[00:03:18.112]you could assign two and give them the option
[00:03:20.196]of hey, find one.
[00:03:22.407]So, there are some podcasts
[00:03:25.149]so they can listen to some stuff, and then videos.
[00:03:28.997]So again, really a great opportunity
[00:03:31.740]for them to have some multi-modal experiences
[00:03:34.460]with the different elements.
[00:03:36.625]So, when we go back to our periodic table
[00:03:43.313]it does this for all of the elements,
[00:03:46.896]which I think is really great.
[00:03:49.179]There are some sorting features
[00:03:51.193]so you can have it just select the ones that are metal,
[00:03:54.274]so only metals within the periodic table are now colored.
[00:03:57.641]And then you can do non-metals,
[00:03:59.823]so we have some of our gases and other things.
[00:04:06.426]Really when they're learning the table
[00:04:07.855]and they need to learn the different periods
[00:04:10.224]you can sort by a specific period.
[00:04:16.942]Which, again, things that I wish I would have had
[00:04:19.358]in chemistry when I was learning it
[00:04:22.309]because it's colorful, it's interactive,
[00:04:24.550]they're able to visually see the differences,
[00:04:27.033]they're not having to put their hands over it
[00:04:28.933]and cover it and hope that they're getting it right.
[00:04:32.138]And then again, the different groups.
[00:04:36.734]And the other cool thing is here in the middle
[00:04:39.946]it gives you a description of the group.
[00:04:43.516]Group 1 includes hydrogen and alkali metals.
[00:04:48.231]And then it'll do the blocks,
[00:04:49.296]the s block includes the akali metals
[00:04:51.340]and the alkaline earth metals.
[00:04:53.285]So, again the students are getting this snapshot view
[00:04:57.024]of kind of relevant information,
[00:04:58.677]and also how to read the periodic table.
[00:05:01.373]It's one thing to remember hydrogen is 1, helium is 2.
[00:05:05.898]But to be able to appropriately be able to
[00:05:09.016]utilize the information within the periodic table
[00:05:12.203]can be a really great asset to your students.
[00:05:16.345]And then it also talks about supply risks,
[00:05:18.502]so when you hover over
[00:05:19.987]you can talk about the rarity of an element.
[00:05:22.989]And it talks about high supply risk, low supply risk,
[00:05:26.349]or unknown like when we go over to hydrogen, it's unknown.
[00:05:31.611]And the other thing that I like about this
[00:05:33.079]is you could just have the students
[00:05:34.698]kinda go through and explore on their own for a little bit.
[00:05:37.037]You could do sort of a pre-lesson
[00:05:39.635]where you give them the website
[00:05:41.497]and you give them some time,
[00:05:42.478]and you just say, "Hey, go figure out some stuff."
[00:05:45.628]Maybe you have them figure out,
[00:05:47.009]"What can you tell me about the periodic table
[00:05:49.093]"based on your observations."
[00:05:51.107]And then you can go through and reinforce that content by
[00:05:55.380]more explicitly pointing out the different groups,
[00:05:59.052]the different periods.
[00:06:01.519]You can also sort it by temperature,
[00:06:04.435]and again the other cool features,
[00:06:06.188]this is the type of tool that can be useful
[00:06:08.442]at various levels of chemistry need.
[00:06:12.589]What they're learning in elementary school,
[00:06:14.793]it's probably a much lower level
[00:06:16.210]than some of the resources and applications
[00:06:18.286]that they'll need as they move on.
[00:06:20.771]Even in college you could have this be
[00:06:23.718]a really great resource for your students to have
[00:06:25.827]because it's free.
[00:06:28.121]Right, like what student doesn't love free things?
[00:06:31.589]So, one of the other things in Resources
[00:06:32.986]that I wanted to mention
[00:06:36.047]when it loads is that depending on
[00:06:38.951]the institution, so the district, the university,
[00:06:42.902]the resources can vary.
[00:06:44.978]So, one of the things I noticed is that
[00:06:47.892]with the resources because I'm
[00:06:51.242]hooked in through the university
[00:06:52.584]and the university is part of a larger system,
[00:06:56.453]this is one of the things we get access through
[00:06:58.765]the library so our resources can vary
[00:07:00.828]from institution to institution.
[00:07:02.806]So, there are resources, but what you might have access to
[00:07:06.469]can vary depending on what sorts of access
[00:07:08.773]your district has, your school has, et cetera.
[00:07:11.845]But the basic interactive parts,
[00:07:14.659]the information, all of that stuff remains constant.
[00:07:19.074]But sometimes the resources can vary from where you are.
[00:07:23.622]So, again just kind of a fun
[00:07:27.683]little interactive app that I think can
[00:07:30.748]have really great uses
[00:07:34.296]for students and for teachers.
[00:07:37.018]So, this has been Mobile Learning in the Classroom,
[00:07:39.322]and the periodic table of elements.
[00:07:41.120]Seeya.
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Chemistry
Periodic Table
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