Tech Edge, Mobile Learning In The Classroom - Episode 49, Project Noah

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[00:00:00.189]Coming upon Mobile Learning in the Classroom,
[00:00:02.167]Project Noah.
[00:00:03.000](exciting rhythmic music)
[00:00:16.911]Hi, I'm Zoe, and today on Mobile Learning in the Classroom,
[00:00:19.451]we're gonna look at Project Noah.
[00:00:21.421]So Project Noah is a biology website and
[00:00:26.591]it has several different things going on in it,
[00:00:29.373]and I haven't explored all of the features yet,
[00:00:31.496]but you go through and it's things that other educators,
[00:00:35.876]other students, have curated.
[00:00:37.557]So they go out into their environment and they take
[00:00:39.808]pictures of bugs, of plants, of other living organisms,
[00:00:45.269]and then they post the picture,
[00:00:48.229]and they talk about what it is.
[00:00:50.158]And as you can see, as I'm scrolling through,
[00:00:52.389]they say where they are.
[00:00:55.120]So you can see different wildlife in different
[00:00:58.928]parts of the world.
[00:01:00.157]So in Malaysia, there's something nosed monkey,
[00:01:04.988]there's a jumping spider from Malaysia.
[00:01:07.920]And then in Costa Rica there's a tree frog.
[00:01:11.589]So one of the things you can do as a teacher
[00:01:13.890]is you can setup a classroom, and within your classroom
[00:01:18.659]you can set up different quests.
[00:01:20.768]So if you're doing a unit on bugs,
[00:01:23.390]you could set up a quest for your students
[00:01:26.450]where they had to go out and find bugs,
[00:01:30.020]maybe identify them, maybe you have a list of bugs
[00:01:33.279]and it's a scavenger hunt, and they work in groups,
[00:01:35.860]and they take their phones,
[00:01:36.693]because this is also an app they can put on their phones
[00:01:38.428]or on their tablets.
[00:01:40.109]They go outside and they try to find bugs,
[00:01:42.451]and then you come back in and you could do a web quest
[00:01:45.131]and have them identify different features.
[00:01:47.751]And then there are also missions that you can just join
[00:01:50.758]that have been setup.
[00:01:51.946]So we're gonna look at this global schoolyard blitz
[00:01:55.608]and again, it's kind of cool because it's interactive,
[00:02:01.280]it gets your kids out there, taking pictures.
[00:02:04.267]They can see what they have in their own backyard,
[00:02:07.537]they can see what there is in their community,
[00:02:10.319]and then they can kind of compare it to see what
[00:02:12.916]other places have.
[00:02:17.047]So while that's loading, we'll go ahead and we'll look
[00:02:21.015]through a little bit more.
[00:02:28.566]So when they take pictures, if you don't know what it is
[00:02:32.259]you can put it up here and then other people can
[00:02:35.077]come along and look at the picture,
[00:02:38.499]and try to help you identify what it is.
[00:02:42.344]So your students can become part of this larger
[00:02:44.634]educational community and see some...
[00:02:48.526]It's kind of a cool looking bug.
[00:02:51.327]And see what is happening other places.
[00:02:53.339]It shows you a map on the right hand side so they can
[00:02:56.108]see where it is in the world,
[00:02:58.717]so you can sort of tie it to geography.
[00:03:01.167]And again, you could build larger lessons around why
[00:03:04.447]would these sorts of living creatures be in this region,
[00:03:08.237]and what would they eat,
[00:03:10.596]why would they live there and not somewhere else.
[00:03:13.418]If you go to an existing mission,
[00:03:16.268]this one is one where it's collecting and sharing
[00:03:20.819]wildlife observations from schoolyards around the world.
[00:03:23.907]So this would be a really easy way in to sort of
[00:03:26.569]expose your students to what's going on,
[00:03:28.747]and how it operates.
[00:03:30.299]And they just would go and take pictures of what
[00:03:33.001]they see in the schoolyard.
[00:03:34.627]I remember finding ladybugs, and ants, and flies,
[00:03:40.050]and then watching kids run away from bees,
[00:03:43.389]and that's how I learned that there were people
[00:03:44.368]that could be allergic to bees.
[00:03:47.297]I just knew that they hurt if they stung you,
[00:03:48.948]and then they died and felt kind of sad about that,
[00:03:51.497]but it was confusing because they also stung me, so.
[00:03:56.036]But then you can go and see what other people find.
[00:03:58.646]And we also had garter snakes in my schoolyard,
[00:04:02.248]and we always, we would try to figure out if the hole
[00:04:04.114]was from irrigation, or if a snake was living in there.
[00:04:08.903]So again, it can be a really fun way for your students
[00:04:11.108]to go out and identify what they all ready have,
[00:04:13.609]and then you could compare it to what they're finding
[00:04:16.479]in other schoolyards around the world because,
[00:04:20.448]I'm pulling up a picture here of a bird,
[00:04:23.208]I think it's a bird, yeah.
[00:04:24.427]We don't really have things that look like that
[00:04:25.716]in my schoolyard.
[00:04:28.714]So again, a really cool way to get them thinking
[00:04:32.736]about species, and talking about animals, and science.
[00:04:39.558]And again, this doesn't have to be sort of a lesson
[00:04:41.966]in itself.
[00:04:43.047]It can be an extension of something,
[00:04:44.576]it's a way to get them out and engaged.
[00:04:47.457]And you can invite...
[00:04:49.789]So within the school section, you can have different
[00:04:52.859]classes, so you can have a different sort of
[00:04:56.340]project reach class.
[00:04:57.298]So if you have freshmen that are studying one thing,
[00:05:00.500]you can have them looking at something.
[00:05:02.128]Or if you're an elementary school,
[00:05:03.208]you could have your sixth graders looking at something
[00:05:05.709]different than say the fifth graders.
[00:05:08.635]And as a school you can collaborate and see
[00:05:13.451]sort of what the students are learning as they
[00:05:15.173]progress through.
[00:05:16.071]It would be a really cool way to have sort of
[00:05:18.131]the program follow the students as they progress through,
[00:05:21.475]sort of what they're seeing when they're in
[00:05:23.945]the earlier years versus the types of things
[00:05:26.002]they're identifying in the later years.
[00:05:28.362]And it gives them something to look forward to.
[00:05:30.290]And you know, because you could have them look
[00:05:31.730]at the things that the fifth graders are finding,
[00:05:33.291]and when you're in first grade, that might be really cool.
[00:05:36.113]And plus it's visual, it's highly visual.
[00:05:40.886]And they get to, again, see what's going on in
[00:05:43.705]other countries, so if you have them...
[00:05:45.986]I remember in junior high we had to do a country
[00:05:49.324]assignment, maybe you tag this on as part of that,
[00:05:52.259]and have them figured out based on what they can
[00:05:54.966]find in this website, what bugs live in other countries,
[00:05:59.424]what creatures are in other regions,
[00:06:01.154]and have that tie into a larger maybe
[00:06:03.513]social studies lesson.
[00:06:04.952]So what I like about this is how it does sort of
[00:06:07.893]allow you as an instructor to sort of cross that line
[00:06:11.214]between biology and science to maybe some social studies
[00:06:15.789]elements, it's collaborative, it's visual,
[00:06:19.249]it has your students out there engaging with their
[00:06:22.506]own environment, and they get to have some fun with it.
[00:06:27.039]Again, especially with the younger students,
[00:06:29.745]watching them out there trying to find bugs,
[00:06:32.155]it's a great way to get them out there,
[00:06:34.969]and then they get to see what's going on around the world.
[00:06:37.094]So they're part of this larger world community
[00:06:39.378]that's also going out and exploring, and identifying,
[00:06:42.045]and doing the same sorts of things.
[00:06:44.057]So I'm Zoe, and this has been Project Noah
[00:06:46.698]on Mobile Learning in the Classroom.
[00:06:48.468]See ya.
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