Smartphones and mobile communication have become an important part of students’ daily lives. Little by little mobile devices are also introduced into the classroom, as they offer a variety of possibilities for learning applications. From the physical perspective smartphones and their integrated sensors may also serve as handy measuring instruments. This study aimed at investigating which ideas a group of students connects to the smartphone as a measuring device after being confronted with a small set of experiments. Continuing feedback and follow-up interviews showed that the students have very different ideas about whether the smartphone is a useful tool for (school) experiments and whether it is a reliable instrument or not.
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Oswald, A., Rath, G., & Haagen-Schützenhöfer, C. (2018). Smartphones as Measuring Instruments in the Physics Classroom: What Do Students Think? In The Role of Laboratory Work in Improving Physics Teaching and Learning (pp. 169–174). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96184-2_14
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