Education - Sensors and Sensibility

Week 16 - Sensors and Sensibility

Despite not being able to attend the whole class session this week, I was able to participate in a couple of the activities as follows:

Mobile Sensor Inquiry - in a small team we used http://www.nquire-it.org/ and installed their app then joined a mission to record noise levels and compare with other peoples samples using our mobile phones. This was an interesting process and it was great for gathering baseline data to compare with other samples. A great repository of information that could potentially be used in many different ways in a class.

We moved on to the Action Bound Mission. We used https://en.actionbound.com/ on our phones to complete a mission our facilitator had setup. This particular mission was like a scavenger hunt that involved particular selfies, pictures, video and audio. We were encouraged to collaborate and come up with creative outcomes.

From these workshops I could see that you could use your mobile devices in a number of ways. Our mobile phones have useful features like GPS, camera, and sound sensors that we probably don’t always make the most use of and would provide other means of engagement with our learners.