Testing tablet computers in Slovenia

A group of experts and teacher within the national project E-education prepared a Pilot project testing tablet computers (link HERE)
In the introduction the research states :

"The pilot project - Testing tablets has established a methodology for testing new solutions in the context of the national project e-Education. Such pilot projects usually begin with the initiative for testing; proceed with the project design approved by the client, afterwards the testing itself follows, which is carried out by teacher-volunteers. The testing results are to be used as a contextual framework for the activities of management consultants, advisors of the school subject areas and as a technical framework for the possible purchase of hardware and software.

In testing the tablets we have relied on existing resources and research on the use of tablets in the education and beyond, which predict the growing popularity of mobile devices. So it makes sense that even in our environment, organized experiments are implemented to obtain first examples of such good use as a framework for the specification of a possible mass delivery of the devices."

In my case we were given an android tablet Asus Transformeser and planned to test it in grade 3 at maths le I searched for useful free accessible Adds. 

Software and hardware used:

1.     Google Body (ikon heart) – counting and addition of the bones in human fingers           (https://market.android.com/details?id=com.google.android.apps.body)

2.     Maths – (ikon blocks) addition three types of maths tasks - different level of difficulty

3.     LITE ABC Kids connect the dots – (ikon ABC) numbers up to 20 in English           (https://market.android.com/details?id=zok.android.dots&feature=search_result)

4.     Video camera

5.     Talking Tom: (https://market.android.com/details?id=com.outfit7.talkingtom2free)

6.     My Piano: (https://market.android.com/details?id=com.bti.myPiano)

7.     worksheets, tablet computer Asus Transformer

8.     projector, balls, blackboard, software

We used Talking Tom to teach him addition.

We counted bones in the human fingers.

The one who finished tasks on worksheets first could solve the tasks on the tablet.  Awesome!!!

Link to the videoclip of the lesson: http://url.sio.si/47