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- Children using sound sensors to improve school environmental healthPublication . Souza, Alexandra; Alves, Ana Rita; Rodrigues, Sofia; Gomes, Cristina Azevedo; Silva, Maria JoãoThe teaching and learning experience, reported in this paper, aims at empowering schoolchildren in the promotion of environmental health in schools, emphasizing the role of Information and Communication Technologies in such promotion. Sound sensors (integrated in tablets) together with a free app were used by children to improve their awareness in what concerns noise, and its consequences. A set of strategies were designed and implemented to support children in making sense of the use of sound sensors in the specific context of a science museum school, with their own teachers, and where each class stays only for a week. Children’s registers and answers to a satisfaction questionnaire contributed to validate the developed strategy. Primary school teachers’ feedback made it possible to follow-up the experience. The dissemination of the experience to other primary schools is being planned in the context of a research project on Environmental Health (Eco-sensors4Health).
- Melhorar o conforto térmico na escola: um estudo exploratório com alunos do ensino básico no contexto da formação inicial de professoresPublication . Gomes, Cristina Azevedo; Novais, Anabela; Abrantes, IsabelEste capítulo apresenta um estudo exploratório sobre a utilização de sensores digitais para exploração do conforto térmico com crianças do 2.º Ciclo do Ensino Básico. O estudo foi desenvolvido com a colaboração de quatro alunas da licenciatura em Educação Básica no contexto da Iniciação à Prática Profissional. As alunas desenharam um conjunto de propostas didáticas que implementaram no âmbito das disciplinas de Ciências Naturais e Matemática do 6.º ano de escolaridade. A partir do registo e tratamento de dados recolhidos com sensores de temperatura e humidade, as crianças foram convidadas a propor soluções de melhoria do ambiente da sua escola, apresentando-as a toda a comunidade escolar. As potencialidades da integração dos sensores em temáticas de ciências e matemática são discutidas em função da análise das planificações e reflexões de alunas da licenciatura em Educação Básica, bem como da análise das soluções propostas pelas crianças do 2.º Ciclo do Ensino Básico. Reflete-se sobre os impactos nos processos de ensino aprendizagem nas crianças, valorizando a compreensão dos fatores associados ao conforto térmico e a alteração de atitudes e comportamentos. Discute-se, também, sobre o percurso de aprendizagens evidenciado pelos alunos, futuros professores, enfatizando a importância da mobilização deste tipo de dispositivos em abordagens transdisciplinares.
- PrefácioPublication . Gomes, Cristina AzevedoNum contexto de profunda e acelerada transformação digital, as restrições colocadas pela pandemia COVID – 19 vieram interpelar, de forma abrupta e disruptiva, a (re)organização das escolas e das suas práticas de ensino, desde o pré-escolar ao ensino superior. Nos anos letivos 2019-2020 e 2020-2021, as circunstâncias de isolamento e de afastamento profilático condicionaram o desenvolvimento das atividades de ensino e aprendizagem em torno de abordagens a distância ou abordagens mistas.
- The Use of Mobile Sensors by Children: A Review of Two Decades of Environmental Education ProjectsPublication . Silva, Maria João; Gouveia, Cristina; Gomes, Cristina AzevedoOver the past twenty years, the use of electronic mobile sensors by children and youngsters has played a significant role in environmental education projects in Portugal. This paper describes a research synthesis of a set of case studies (environmental education projects) on the use of sensors as epistemic mediators, evidencing the technological, environmental, social, and didactical dimensions of environmental education projects over the last two decades in Portugal. The triggers of the identified changes include: (i) the evolution of sensors, information and communication platforms, and mobile devices; (ii) the increasing relevance of environmental citizenship and participation; (iii) the recognition of the role of multisensory situated information and quantitative information in environmental citizenship; (iv) the cause–effect relation between didactical strategies and environmenta. education goals; (v) the potential of sensory and epistemic learners’ practices in the environment to produce learning outcomes and new knowledge. To support the use of senses and sensors in environmental education projects, the SEAM model was created based on the developed research synthesis.
- VIAS | Viseu InterAge Stories: developing an app to foster social inclusion and healthy lifestylesPublication . Gomes, Cristina Azevedo; Pereira, José; Araújo, Lia; Rito, Pedro; Figueiredo, Maria; Ferreira, Sónia; Morais, Nídia Salomé; Gouveia, TeresaVIAS | Viseu InterAge Stories aims to promote communication, understanding and collaboration between different generations, deepening the sense of belonging to the city and developing a share vision of their identity. Having the city of Viseu as the study case setting, the project aims to develop and evaluate a collaborative app that promotes interaction between generations and the practice of outdoors healthy lifestyle. Inhabitants will be invited to create collaboratively, while touring and interacting with and about the various places of reference, stories about their city, from the memories and reminiscences of the elderly to the meanings of the present and the expectations of children and youth concerning those same sites. We present the referential framework that supports the development of VIAS, discussing both its theoretical foundations and the methodological approach.