Engaging students in science is essential in promoting further interest in mathematics and science. Implementing science using mobile technology and "learning to go" is one way to engage all learners. Come see how the iPod touch & iPhone enable an entirely new class of experimentation in and out of the classroom, engaging even the most reluctant learners. This track investigates how these devices can accelerate learning in the field of science. Get a hands on experience with the latest applications on mobile devices that will allow your school to extend science everywhere. In the first part of this 1.5h workshop we will work with the sensors that are native to the iPod touch, the accelerometers and the microphone. In the second part we will use some external measuring probes (from a range of many) that enable us to do science experiments that the iPod on its own cannot.
[Attended by Kin Chuah]:
I was excited when I read the synopsis especially after experiencing much difficulty last year in searching for a data logger that is compatible to Mac.
Paul started by sharing the native sensors in both iPod touch and iPhone as seen below.
For the next hour, we spent time experimenting with
(a) the microphone on iPod touch to study the characteristics of sound such as loudness, pitch and doppler effect.
One of the apps to measure loudness in decibel.
Other apps allow measurement of amplitude and frequency.
(b) the accelerometer to obtain data on motion using coastermate apps as shown below.
Due to its touch screen interface, make it even more fun to do data logger experiment.
What really excites me was when Paul introduce that PASCO has a new app "sparkvue" with iPod Touch and this allows their sensors to be use with the device. Wow, that will be pretty cool and this will further facilitate experimentation out of the class.
The apps was still under beta version when we tried it and not available on the apps store. We were given a preview and once the interface problem was resolved, we started our task in locating a magnet using a magnetic field sensor.
With this new found possibility, I am exploring the possibility of adding to our inventory iPod Touch and relevant sensors for year 2011 curriculum.
The "sparkvue" is now available to download for free and as I am trying out the iPod Touch, incidentally I found other ideas on how to use iPod Touch at this link.
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