1. 2015 Mobile Learning Week
Using Mobile Devices to Support the Status of Girls in a High School Statistics Class: Bridge, Build, and Encourage
Self Introduction
--Interest in Education for the underprivileged in the rural area of China.
--Experience with struggling of female international Chinese students overseas
--Experience as a female graduate student with discrimination and prejudice in a developed country.
Yao Yu

2. Project Purpose: Bridge, Build, and Encourage
Bridge the digital divide between boys and girls as well as girls and technology.
Build students’ awareness and understanding of gender differences in learning. Enlarge students’ understanding of societal trends, especially those impacting women and girls, both within China and in other nations.
Encourage girls to reject and break negative social stereotypes and embrace mathematics

3. Overview 01 · Project Introduction and Guiding Questions
02 · Methods: Use Mobile Applications to Support Girls’ Learning
03 · Results: How Do Girls Benefit from Mobile Learning?
04 · Next Step
Contents
--Introduction
--Methods
--Results
--Discussion and Conclusion
--References and acknowledgements
05 · Acknowledgements

4. In what ways do girls learn math differently than boys?
How do I help the girls in my math classroom express themselves more often and more fully?
In what ways do girls learn math differently than boys?
How can mobile technologies connect students’ ideas and issues nationally and internationally?
How do I close access and confidence gaps between girls and boys using mobile devices? 01
Project
Introduction
And Guiding Questions
Awareness
--Girls learn differently and traditional value has that girls don’t perform as well as boys do.
Understanding
--Girls and boys learn differently.
Action
--Encourage girls to break the social stereotype.

5. Use Mobile Applications to Support Girls’ Learning
Independent Research: Mobile apps can facilitate independent statistics research with applications providing various data sources.
File Sharing, Idea Exchange, and Feedback: Students share ideas with each other. Teachers can track student work and give feedback.
Aptitude and Confidence: Mobile technologies give female students alternative channels for expressing themselves and participating in class discussion. 02
Methods:
Use Mobile Applications to Support Girls’ Learning
Mobile Assistance: Share
--Tremendous data source mobile applications function as a wonderful way for independent research.
--Assist classroom idea exchange and sharing
--Assist different learners with graphical understanding.

6. 02 · Methods: Statistics Class Goals and Mobile Applications Assistance
Represent Data Graphically, Improve Quantitative Skills
Use Data and Critical Thinking to Analyze Global Trends, Conduct Independent Research
Share Research Findings,
Improve English Oral and Written Communication Skills

7. 02· Methods: Student Work Sample--Infant Mortality Rate and GDP Using WDI and JMP Graphical Builder
A scatter-plot drawn with JMP Graphical Builder From Earl’s Research Infant Immortality Rate and Economic Status

8. 02 · Methods: World Data Bank—Female-Related Research(Politics)
The Juvenile period is critical in forming girls’ self perception and important for teenage boys to realize how equally expressive their opposite gender is.

9. 02 · Methods: World Data Bank—Female-Related Research(Health)
The Juvenile period is critical in forming girls’ self perception and important for teenage boys to realize how equally expressive their opposite gender is.

10. 02 · Methods: Mobile Lab Interactive Learning
Personal Mobile Teaching Experience
--Interaction with students, student peer interaction, efficient and synchronized information display and sharing—iPad and Computer.
--Female students have found a much more direct way of expressing themselves and perform group discussion.
--Students present their ideas in a more visual and timely fashion.
--Teachers can track students 'work and give more efficient in-class feedback.

11. Results: How Do Girls Benefit from Mobile Learning?
Mobile Devices Encourage Female Student Research 03
Results: How Do Girls Benefit from Mobile Learning?
Now let me show you how girls have learnt from mobile learning
--Project presentation of girls sharing How they learnt from mobile application research
--Sophia(Prezi), Cynthia, and Earl(JMP)

12. Impact Research: Collect and analyze data to quantify contribution of mobile devices to numeracy
Peer Teaching: Reach out to help learners in South Africa conduct survey research on the status of women in their country
Connect Globally: Use mobile technologies to share and compare research findings on female status in China and South Africa 04
Next Steps
My Future Research Focus: Collect Data to prove students have acquired a better way of learning using quantitative data.

13. 04 · Next Step: Future Collaboration with Ilanga High School
in Durban, South Africa
My Future Research Focus: Collect Data to prove students have acquired a better way of learning using quantitative data.

14. Beijing Royal School for its generous support of mobile learning 04
My students, Sophia, Earl, and Cynthia, for their contributions to this presentation
Guangfa Wang, my principal, Amanda Cheng, Liu Chao, Lucy Haagen, and Jeryl Hewey, and all my colleagues who have provided valuable professional advice and assistance
Beijing Royal School for its generous support of mobile learning 04
Acknowledgements

15. Yu Yao, Calculus and Statistics Teacher Beijing Royal School,
2015 Mobile Learning Week
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Yu Yao, Calculus and Statistics Teacher
Beijing Royal School,
No.11 Wangfu St., Beiqijia Town,
Changping District, Beijing, China
Work Phone: (8610)
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