A PBL Teaching Model Based on Mobile Devices to Improve Primary School Students' Meta-Cognitive Awareness and Learning Achievement

Abstract

With the evolution of the mobile platform and the rapid adoption of mobile devices such as cell phones and other handheld devices, mobile devices are playing a huge role in education. The traditional teaching mode cannot meet the requirements of comprehensive quality cultivation for students in the information technology environment. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of different teaching model (PBL teaching model based on the mobile devices vs. traditional teaching model) on the meta-cognitive awareness of learners. One hundred and three primary school students enrolled in the "Movement of the Earth" course taught by the experienced professor. This study randomly selected one class as the experimental group and the other as the control group. The teacher used PBL teaching model based on the mobile devices in the experimental group and used traditional teaching mode in the control group. Quantitative analysis combined with qualitative analysis was used to examine the meta-cognitive awareness, learning achievement and students' work. The results showed that PBL teaching based on mobile devices has better effect on students' meta-cognitive awareness but there no significant difference with control group; Compared with the traditional teaching, PBL teaching based on mobile devices has a significant positive impact on students' learning achievement; During the whole teaching process, students in the experimental group played an active part in inquiry activities and did rich works.