Tech Task #7: Mobiles For Learning

After watching the session with Liz Klob I learned a lot about incorporating mobile phones into the classroom. One of the ideas in Liz's presentation that I really liked and would use in a classroom was         Qr Codes.  I will be interning in a kindergarten classroom and majority of the students do have IPad's . Teachers can also book out IPads and use them for their class. So the kindergarten's can use their ipads for a ton of different activities especially QR Codes. Also parents can use their smart phones to see what their children are learning, or can do different activities at home. 

I would use QR Codes in my kindergarten classroom to: 

• Advertise school events or classroom announcements 
• Use the QR Codes as a scavenger hunt game where students can search the classroom/school to answer a question or clue 
• Link to a variety of children's books 
• Use the codes for a variety of counting activities that children can use and play to help them develop number sense 

Here is a link to create your own QR Codes:

http://www.qrstuff.com/

Here you can do a ton of cool things with QR Codes like change the colour of your QR Code for different events. 

As I got to thinking of different activities to do with the kindergarten class I found the blog Technology in Early Childhood. In this blog kindergarten teachers post different activities young children can do using technology. There was a link to QR Codes for kindergarten classrooms where there are a ton a different activities and bar codes to use in the classroom. Such as counting games, activity sheets or sliders to help young children match words to texts. 

http://www.classroomfreebies.com/