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- Using electronic sensors to support gender neutral STEM activities in primary schoolPublication . Silva, Maria João; Ferreira, Eduarda; Batista, SusanaThe Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) gender divide is still a nowadays multidimensional problem. During the last decades, research has been studying the factors that can contribute to close the gender gap in what concerns participation, achievement and progression in STEM education. The empirical study presented in this paper assessed, with a gender perspective, the results of the use of electronic sensors to explore and solve environmental health problems by children of four primary school classes. The developed experiment was designed to promote gender inclusion. The results evidenced that children acquired knowledge linked to the use of the sensors, and were able to produce suggestions to solve the explored problems. Nonetheless, gender differences were not promoted by the experiment didactic activities, evidencing affordances of such activities to narrow gender gaps.
- Utilizar eco-sensores na exploração da saúde ambiental: Das salas de aula ao espaço exterior na formação docentePublication . Silva, Maria João; Caseiro, Ana; Rodrigues, Margarida; Valente, Bianor; Melo, Nuno; Almeida, António; Nunes, MariaA investigação apresentada neste artigo desenvolveu um conjunto de cenários pluridisciplinares de aprendizagem para promover a exploração da saúde ambiental na formação docente, utilizando eco-sensores em diversos espaços interiores e exteriores à escola. Os referidos cenários centram-se em diversas dimensões da saúde ambiental das escolas, como o som e a qualidade do ar, especificamente a concentração de dióxido de carbono no ar. A avaliação do uso dos sensores para explorar estas dimensões da saúde ambiental da escola tornou possível validar práticas pluridisciplinares de utilização dos sensores em saúde ambiental na formação docente inicial e perspetivar práticas dos/as futuros/as docentes no empoderamento das crianças, para eco-inovarem em saúde ambiental.
- 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).
- Conceção e Desenvolvimento de uma Plataforma para a Participação das Crianças na Saúde Ambiental das suas EscolasPublication . Silva, Maria João; Ferreira, Eduarda; Souza, Alexandra; Alves, Ana Rita; Rito, Pedro; Gomes, CristinaA investigação apresentada neste artigo está centrada no processo de conceção e desenvolvimento de uma plataforma, que permite a participação das crianças na saúde ambiental das suas escolas. O processo de conceção e desenvolvimento integrou-se num processo de investigação baseada em design (design-based research), foi colaborativo, iterativo e situou-se no contexto das escolas de 1º ciclo do ensino básico (primárias) portuguesas e dos seus problemas de saúde ambiental, bem como nas suas atividades curriculares de educação em ciências. A plataforma foi concebida e desenvolvida para permitir a monitorização de variáveis de saúde ambiental, as intervenções na saúde ambiental, e para incluir uma base de dados que integra os dados de saúde ambiental adquiridos, registados e introduzidos pelas crianças na plataforma, com as respetivas anotações, os blogues e documentos colaborativos das escolas. Desta forma, a estrutura da plataforma permite o registo do processo de participação (pesquisa e intervenção) realizado por cada turma, produzindo conhecimento sobre os problemas de saúde ambiental das escolas
- The Eco-sensors4Health project in teacher training: Using sensors to raise awareness in environmental healthPublication . Silva, Maria João; Caseiro, Ana; Rodrigues, Margarida; Valente, Bianor; Melo, Nuno; Almeida, António; Nunes, ClarisseThe Eco-sensors4Health research project proposes the use of everyday Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), such as sensors, in the creation of healthy and sustainable environments in school. Complementarily, the TEL@FTELab (Technology Enhanced Learning@Future Teacher Education Lab) research project investigates how a technology enriched training can improve teachers’ education. The research presented in this article was developed in the context of both projects and created a set of multidisciplinary learning scenarios to raise awareness in environmental health, through the use of sensors in teacher training. The referred scenarios focus on various dimensions of environmental health in schools, such as sound and air quality (trough the study of carbon dioxide concentration in air). The assessment of the use of sensors to explore such dimensions of environmental health in school made it possible to validate learning scenarios and envision multidisciplinary practices of prospective teachers regarding the empowerment of children to eco-innovate in environmental health.