without requiring excellent mobile network.
No negative effect on the pupil. Because of the
fact that the application is used exclusively on the
field, and not in the classroom, it does not distract
students in any way from the educational process. At
the same time, proper organization of students in
groups, can avoid potential adverse effects of the
mobile phone, such as inequality between students,
bullying, as the use of the mobile phones is limited on
the field, loss of concentration and loss of collegiality,
since the students are encouraged to work together to
achieve the objective, which is to reach their
destination, and correctly answer the question.
5.1 Future Work
As in all applications, there are many capabilities of
improvement, especially for an application like this,
which introduces something innovative, and a new
way of utilizing new technology. Below several ways
to improve the application are proposed.
The creation of a forum, where tutors would
exchange experiences and ideas for creating better
activities for their students;
Translation of the system in many different
languages;
Embedding Google Maps on the website, so that
the tutors can add markers to the points they want,
instead of collecting the coordinates using Google
Earth;
Enabling tutors to provide photographs and
videos along with the information.
Development of an iOS (Apple’s operating
system, used in iPhones) version of the
application.
Furthermore, we plan to hold several activities in
which students and teacher of various educational
levels will participate, in order to acquire more
feedback and make RouteQuizer even better.
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