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From left, Raoul Botundu, 9, Morgan Williams and Monika Kurzelowska, 10 |
Hi-tech phones help pupils dial up our Victorian past
SMART phones are bringing history to life for one King’s Cross primary school.
Year 5 students at Blessed Sacrament RC Primary School, Boadicea Street, have been issued with the state-of-the-art technology, on loan from the Islington City Learning Centre, to help them explore how their area has changed since Victorian times.
The smart phones operate like mini computers, with touch sensitive screens and GPS satellite navigation.
They have been specially programmed with a ‘learning trail’, which the children will follow from Regent’s Canal to the British Library.
When the children walk through certain zones they will trigger a sound and a picture will pop up on the phone with instructions.
The idea is that the pupils will take pictures of their surroundings when prompted and compare these to photos of the area during the Victorian Era, then share their discoveries online.
The scheme was pioneered by Blessed Sacrament deputy head Morgan Williams who hopes this new approach to learning will help motivate the children to look into their history and keep up to date with the latest technology.
He said: “This will be the first exercise of its kind in the UK as the phones were only released in February.
“The children are all very excited about the project and have picked up the new technology quickly.”
Mr Williams added that one great benefit is that the phones will cut down on the amount of paper the school uses.
He also stressed that they are entirely safe to use as they operate without wireless technology.
Mr Williams said: “This will be a learning experience for the whole school, but we hope to do this kind of exercise regularly in the future with children of all ages.
“Hopefully, it will open the way for other schools to follow.” |
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