Well-designed mobile tools have the power to transform learning in chemistry, in both secondary and higher education. The spatial understanding required for success in organic chemistry is not readily accessible via traditional textbook and lecture delivery systems. Many students require immediate feedback as they try to make sense of the visual-spatial ideas at the core of the curriculum. We are creating mobile games for organic chemistry, allowing students to discover the rules of acidity, resonance, and mechanisms through game-based learning. In addition to applications for organic chemistry, a new mobile tool to create molecular animations easily on a smartphone or tablet will be introduced. With increasing emphasis on particulate drawings in AP chemistry, this app will allow teachers and students to construct these drawings, bring them to life, and share them with others.

Building mobile tools for chemistry

251st National Meeting (2016)

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