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- 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.
- Embodied education: Senses, emotions, and technologyPublication . Silva, Maria João; Ferreira, Eduarda; Andrade, Vania; Nunes, Olinda; Carvalho, Maria da LuzThe theme of this paper is the importance of educational embodied approaches, aiming at developing children's sensory awareness, emotional competences and abstract thinking. The case studies presented in this paper explored the joint use of human senses and electronic sensors in embodied educational activities, related to mathematics and science education, situated in schools and in the schools' neighbourhood, and grounded in children's everyday practices. In all the three case studies, the children enhanced sensory and emotional awareness, body literacy and developed abstract thinking, grounded on their own embodied experiences.
- Embodied education: Senses, emotions, and technologyPublication . Silva, Maria João; Ferreira, Eduarda; Andrade, Vania; Nunes, Olinda; Carvalho, Maria da LuzThe theme of this paper is the importance of educational embodied approaches, aiming at developing children's sensory awareness, emotional competences and abstract thinking. The case studies presented in this paper explored the joint use of human senses and electronic sensors in embodied educational activities, related to mathematics and science education, situated in schools and in the schools' neighbourhood, and grounded in children's everyday practices. In all the three case studies, the children enhanced sensory and emotional awareness, body literacy and developed abstract thinking, grounded on their own embodied experiences.
- 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).
- Sensing locally in the global environment: using sensors in teachers’ educationPublication . Silva, Maria João; Almeida, António; Valente, Bianor; Rodrigues, Margarida; Manteigas, VítorIn order to develop elementary school children's environmental citizenship, the 2lst century teachers have to improve their own environmental literacy and electronic sensors can have an important role in that improvement. The research presented in this paper describes an environmental education project that uses electronic sensors to support future teachers in thinking globally while sensing and acting in their local environment. Future teachers used sound sensors, temperature sensors, as well as carbon dioxide sensors, together with smartphones, to explore natural and urban systems in order not only to characterize these systems, but also to: i) understand ecosystems' services and interconnectedness; ii) identify environmental problems; and plan related solutions in what concerns climatic comfort and air quality. The data acquired and produced in ecosystems' explorations were selected and are presented in this paper, as well as the related interpretations.The leaming results are related to: i) the local characterization of a natural ecosystem and of the teachers' education school campus; ii) the differences and relations between Lisbon, urban systems and the neighboring natural ecosystems; iii) the identification of interventions to improve the environmental quality of the campus. This research contributed to validating the use of electronic sensors and smartphones as a useful strategy to produce environmental information about the explored ecosystems, to link local and global approaches in environmental education, as well as to support students' actions, planned to enhance the Campus environment.
- Sensing locally in the global environment: using sensors in the teachers’ educationPublication . Silva, Maria João; Almeida, António; Valente, Bianor; Rodrigues, Margarida; Manteigas, VítorIn order to develop elementary school children's environmental citizenship, the 2lst century teachers have to improve their own environmental literacy, and electronic sensors can have an important role in that improvement. The research presented in this paper describes an environmental education project that uses electronic sensors to support future teachers in thinking globally, while sersing and acting in their local environment. Future teachers used sound sensors, temperature sensors, as well as carbon dioxide sensors, together with smarphones, to explore natural and urban systems in order not only to characterizeth ese systems,b ut also to: i) understande cosystems's ervicesa nd interconnectednessii;) identiff environmental problems; and plan related solutions in what concerns climatic comfort and air quality. The data acquired and produced in ecosystems' explorations were selected and are presented in this paper, as well as the related interpretations. The leaming resultsa re relatedt o: i) the local characterizationo fa natural ecosystema nd ofthe teachers' education school campus; ii) the differences and relations between Lisbon,urban systems and the neighboring natural ecosystems; iii) the identification of interventions to improve environmental quality of the campus. This research contributed to validate the use of electronic sensors and smar@honesa s a useful strategy to produce environmental information about the explored ecosystemst,o link local and global approachesin environmentale ducation,a s well as to support students' actions, planned to eúance the Campus environment.
- 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.