We actually wanted to use the Seek app to show kids how to identify plants from pictures and what they could learn about plants. We wanted to emphasize:
* native vs introduced vs endangered
* threatened or endangered
* medicinal, culinary, or crafting uses
Unfortunately we could not because of school policy preventing kids from using smart phones in class, BUT they were happy to follow the teacher around and point at plants to ID. It significantly increased classroom participation cause it’s interactive learning. Information that used to be incredibly out of reach is now readily in front of them.
Overall, I think it’s good to extremely limit use of smartphones in schools, but I think there’s some amazing stuff we can do now like bird ID with Merlin and kids should know how to do it.
Unfortunately we could not because of school policy preventing kids from using smart phones in class, BUT they were happy to follow the teacher around and point at plants to ID. It significantly increased classroom participation cause it’s interactive learning. Information that used to be incredibly out of reach is now readily in front of them.
Overall, I think it’s good to extremely limit use of smartphones in schools, but I think there’s some amazing stuff we can do now like bird ID with Merlin and kids should know how to do it.