Project Abstract: “The HP Technology for Teaching grant has given Bluegrass Community and Technical College the ability to offer access to high quality mobile technology and to gain immediacy in collection, analysis and sharing of data. The General Chemistry Lab courses have begun using mobile tablet PC technology to perform experiments where data is collected in real-time, students assist each other in analysis of data and results are shared. The use of mobile technology has allowed the chemistry faculty and students to move the laboratory outside the walls of the institution making our chemistry courses less abstract and more meaningful. “
Full article and contacts can be found at http://www.bluegrass.kctcs.edu/Natural_Sciences/HP_Grant
The greatest impact to date is allowing students to collect water samples outside the laboratory which creates an autonomous community of learners who rely on one another to collect a water sample, record the coordinates using GPS software of where the sample was taken, and analyze the sample once back inside the laboratory