Mobile Learning and Digital Games in School

Pumpkin Soup & Rocket Man Level A0

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Details: Category: Mobile Learning; Last Updated on 15. Dec 2013; Published on 25. Jan 2013; Written by Anabel Nowak; Hits: 7491

The group learning English from scratch was the most challenging to play with, at the same time I was convinced that a game in that group would improve confidence and vocabulary much faster than in any other group.

I decided to use two short games. Pumpkin soup onlinegames.net is rather a game for females and Rocket Man amanita-design.net was intended to be for the four males in the group of 12.

The handouts contained four pictures of each game and two questions to each picture. The questions had to be answered as the students played along. Task two of the game consisted of writing:onlinegames.net In Pumpkin Soup students were asked to write the recipe for the soup in four short sentences and in Rocket Man amanita-design.net they had to write a summary of the story in four short sentences.Students were allowed to use their mobile devices as dictionaries.

The first surprise was that students wanted to work on their own and called me to ask questions, they played several times in order to build their sentences, but they only played Pumpkin Soup. Everyone liked the game, they organized a cooking session in the school kitchen afterwards. Later on during the term some students asked when we could play another game. I had no negative feedback.

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Engineering English and Iron Lord

The game

The Iron Lord is suitable to play with students of Mechanical Engineering with B1 or B2 English level not only because it is a nice change to “normal” English lessons, but because the game offers the possibility to apply language knowledge the way students will do in their future jobs. The Iron Lord is about a young man visiting his uncle in Namariel for the first time, the country has been converted in an iron land full of machines with a robot army. The uncle is taken prisoner soon after his nephew arrives, so the new visitor has to work out how machines function in order to save his uncle. The game challenge is not very big for students, they can play the game in a few hours time, and the real challenge will be the task afterwards.

Who applies Mobile Learning?

Many schools have been using mobile devices to teach. Some schools even have their own apps. Universities rely on Mobile Learning because of the advantages. Primary schools use mobile devices because they have proved to be useful in many ways, for example for disabled kids. Many schools talk about their experiences with Mobile Learning and their positive results. But what do students think? Do they have a different view of Mobile Learning or even further ideas on how can Mobile Learning help us in future? One student explains why Mobile Learning should be standard learning. All in all, we can summarize: Mobile Learning is the future.