Turn on (off) the phone, kid! Smartphone as mini-lab in Science teaching

Abstract

The scientific literature has shown significant number of publications on the use of technological features such as tablets and smartphones in science education. Are enough positive reports of experiences that seek to make teaching more attractive sciences, developing different methods, practiced by most educators, making the dynamic process of teaching and learning. In addition to the many reported experiences, organizations such as UNESCO, have encouraged action in this perspective and have released ostentatious documents. However many schools still include these technologies as an opponent, underestimating them, disregarding their great potential to be used as a pedagogical tool. You can make these devices one mini-lab of scientific experiments, which besides enhancing meaningful learning, transforms the experience into a mechanism that leads to reflection built, integrates the teaching of science to the daily lives of students, learning by interacting with the reality of students . The technologies of mobile communications, smartphone and its derivatives, are part of the cultural identity of students and enable students to develop their own scientific experiments autonomously, bringing knowledge built in the classroom to the outside of the school environment, allowing the dissemination of its learning and the dissemination of their experiences on social networks, enabling the student to learn and teach at the same time. The objective of this work is to teach science content using as a tool the smatphone / tablet as a teaching laboratory in order to obtain meaningful learning.