Tips & Tricks

• Make sure not too much data traffic will be consumed (maximum of 8-16 mb) if you want to use web-based apps outdoors.
• Make sure files have a compatible format for all students and all sorts of devices (Android, iOS, other).
• Give precise instructions for your students to avoid side-tracking.
• Communicate with colleagues about their experience with digital tools and materials (apps, devices and software).
• Visit teachers training seminars and inform yourself through public institutions (libraries, museums), scientific literature, pedagogical books, Internet.

Learn more 

• Tablets in schools (tablet initiatives around the world)
  
• To find some more science related apps, have a look here and here. 
• An interesting article about the advantages in mobile wireless and sensor technologies and their possibilities for supporting learning activities
• Teachers from 14 European countries worked out eleven interesting teaching units that show how to integrate Smartphones at maths, physics, chemistry and biology classes.
• An interesting Master’s thesis (Henrik Egholm Wessel) on the topic “Smartphones as scientific instruments in Inquiry Based Science Education”
• A chemistry lesson plan incorporating smartphones (and a free colour match app) to determine the concentration of a dissolved colorant.