Publisher`s description - SamEx
SamEx was designed to support Self-directed and Collaborative learning activities and provides a participatory platform for students to contribute, share, and give feedback. Students can use it to take a picture to collect data or post information they found to be useful for their learning. These postings are shared with other students who can review, give comments and evaluate by giving “Likes” to the contribution.
SamEx can store contextual users’ information for potential educational use. Depending on the current time and users’ location, the system allows question prompts to be displayed on students’ smartphones potentially facilitating or scaffolding learning tasks. Students can therefore be guided in outdoor mobile learning trails or just prompted periodically in connection with their homework observations or other work they are recommended or required to pursue outside school. Students can also subscribe to their peers’ contributions.
To reward students’ activity, SamEx leverages on its own badge system, an extrinsic motivational tool. By collecting media, answering location-aware questions, providing comments to other students’ questions and liking other students’ work, students take part in a game to accumulate points leading to the earning of badges in five categories and 4 levels per category. The badges were designed as recognition to motivate student to participate and share in the inquiry process.
Logging in: After donwloading and installing the application, users are given QR codes. Once the application is launched, a QR code needs to be scanned with the in-app camera module. Following that, the registration is done automatically.
For QR codes, potential users need to contact Nan Chiau Primary School, Singapore via this e-mail: ncps@moe.edu.sg
