IIBYT   23944
INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLOGICAS Y TECNOLOGICAS
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Characterising the educational potentials of mobile applications related to ecology
Autor/es:
LETICIA GARCÍA ROMANO; MARÍA ZOE MALDONADO PÉREZ; ROMINA C. TORRES
Lugar:
Bologna
Reunión:
Congreso; 13th European Science Education Research Association Conference; 2019
Institución organizadora:
ESERA (European Science Education Research Association)
Resumen:
Ten free-download mobile applications (apps) to be used for Ecology teaching and learning have been characterised. The analysis has included not only their technological characteristics but also their ecology content as well as the didactic aspects proposed by such apps. The technological resources studied have shown a high degree of usability, but two-dimensional images with low or null degree of realism have prevailed. Most of the apps have shown a wide variety of contents in their proposal. Few apps included activities for users, and whenthey did include them, they were limited to closed-ended questions or games. In most cases, no assessment activities that would enable meta-reflection were presented. The scientific thinking skills that were mostly promoted were: categorising observations, recognising patterns and thinking about causes and effects. As a result of the systematic analysis of the apps, they can be classified into three large groups: ?simulations?, ?gaming apps? and ?encyclopaedia? apps in which different levels of interactivity, user-orientation, content amplitude, skills involved and cognitive demand prevail.