Introduction
Thanks to the generous gift of 3 G1 Android phones by Greg
Grothaus, former Southside student now employed at Google, Mr. Rogers' IB
Computer Science students were able to begin developing Android phone apps
using Eclipse. A sampling of the programs developed so far can be found at
right. Most of the current programs were developed for use in physics classrooms. It's our hope to eventually
have a classroom set of at least 20 Android phones that can do double
service as devices either for teaching computer science or teaching physics,
possibly math or other science courses.
Why we're excited about the Android
phone: In computer science they offer a plethora of different programming
experiences: blue tooth, WiFi, GUI, graphics, OOPS, real-time sensor data
collection, on, and on. No other single device in the price range of an
Android phone offers such a range of programming experiences.
In physics
class Androids offer numerous cost effective ways to collect data and conduct
experiments with sensors such as video camera, microphone, GPS, 3-axis accelerometers, tilt
indicators,
and temperature sensors.
Purchasing these devices individually would cost more than an unlocked
Android phone.
With its many
sensors and programming capabilities we believe Android phone will also
become a regular feature of student research projects. Several of our
students are already working on Android-based science fair projects.
We're still rookies at Android development but hope to
eventually develop our humble beginning into full fledged Android education
unit complete with lesson plans and lots of software examples as part of our
High school IB Computer Science course. Please check back often for further
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| Our Goal: Develop and migrate as many Android
application as possible for use in science, math, and computer
classrooms.
Our plan is not just to use Android phones for programming in
computer science class, but to eventually provide Android phones
with educationally oriented apps for use in physics, math, and
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