Mr. Angus Chan, ITC of Precious Blood Secondary School

1. Angus Chan
Precious Blood Secondary School
Using Mobile Apps to
Cultivate Students’ Life-long
Learning Habit

2. • 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

3. • 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

4. • 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

5. • 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

6. • 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

7. • Evernote
Mobile Apps for Daily Usage

8. • Educreations
Mobile Apps for Daily Usage

9. • Vittle
Mobile Apps for Daily Usage

10. • bContext
Mobile Apps for Daily Usage

11. • Popplet
Mobile Apps for Daily Usage

12. Thank you!