Opening up the environment

13th October, 2009 posted by: Sarah Grier

Richard Needham, chairperson elect of the Association of Science Education (ASE), is a fan of all technologies that manage to liberate students from low-order pen and paper skills while conducting outdoor environmental investigations. He singles out Wildkey a mobile technology decision-tree application that enables students to make highly accurate species identifications using a mix of visual and descriptive prompts. “It makes the process so much more enjoyable and accurate and it is GPS-enabled allowing students to geo-tag their discoveries.

source: inspirED

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  1. Handheld species identification with WildKey « SeriousGamePlan
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