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Tobias Fabrin Gade authoredTobias Fabrin Gade authored
Back To workshops
20/03/2019
Our initial cardstorm
The following table shows the domains and technology that were discovered during the workshop. The domains are meant to represent just a few of the the problems that we found interest in. The technologies represent some possible direction to go, in order to find solutions to thoes problems.
| Domains | Thecnology |
|---|---|
| Lack of theory | Smartboard |
| Experiments outside of the lab | Augmented Reality |
| Substitute teacher dosn't have access to any material and can't help the students | Digital lab / Digital experiments |
| Lack of tiem | Interactiv lab table |
| physic and chemistry orientated smartphone game | |
| Software to avoid distractions like games and social media | |
| Movement tracking | |
| Mini-kit (lab) | |
| Interactive periodic table | |
| Artificial intelligence | |
| Varible results with digital results collection | |
| Interactive Remedies |
Choosing a few of the best ideas, we tried to expand upon them with more detail.
Interactive Remedies
Domain: Experiments outside of the lab Technology: digital lab and digital experiments
It was clear from our observations that the restrictions on the lab use and which chemicals the students was allowed to use posed a problem. Not only did the restriction on the use of the lab result in important teaching time and experiments beeing lost, but the ever more strict regulations regarding what chemicals are allowed to be used in experiments, means a lot of very inseightful experiments are no longer able to be used in education.
We started to brainstorm solutions, and began thinking about an Interactive remidie. The initial idea is simple in it's functionality, but complex in it's development and desing.
The idea is a test tube with a digital overlay, providing an interface where the students can choose chemicals and everyday objects from a list, and "put" them into the glass, without actually having the chemicals. The screen should also provide basic but important information about the reaktion taking place in the glass, i.e. the temperature, the gasses that a created if any and also show the current composition of the content "in" the glass.
A quick drawing of the concept is show below:
Inspired by Little Alchemist
Domain: Experiments outside of the lab Technology: Little Alchemist
Another thing that was very clear was the lack of time. In general there was rarely enough time for the students to complete all assignments. Being inspired by the mobile game Little Alchemist, a possible solution could be a game where the children where able to combine different elements to see what reaktion would take place. another possibility would be the ability to save you progress/experiments so that the children could easily with no time investment return to it later. Doing experiments the normal way, has it's pros, however if we look at the time it takes to set up all remedies for an experiment takes a lot of time, which there is already a lack of.
Periodic table
Domain: Substitute teacher dosn't have access to any material and can't help the students Technology: Interactive periodic table
Looking a the problems that occur when the teaching is done by a substitute teacher, it was clear that the fact that the substitute dosn't have access to the material had a disrupting affect. The children had a hard time getting help and the focus was greatly reduced. Our idea was to design something, that provided indirect teaching, something that they could experiment with in different ways and thereby gain some knowlagde of the field.
We thought about making a Interactive periodic table, which lets the children explore the elements, their composition of neutrons, protons and electrons, where they are found, what they are used for, and also how they can be combined into know molecules - like sugar.
Lack of reason
Domain: lack of reason why Technology: digital lab and digital experiments
A piece of software that includes both the theoretical knowledge concerning the experiments and a place to write the report. The theoretical part should include a lot more examples/perspective to real life and inform why a certain chemical Reaction happens. An example from our observations was an experiment where the students had to test to see how much protein a certain type of food contained. A deeper understanding of why proteins are important and what they are used for in the body was not given in the material/by the teacher.
A software that may included pop-ups with knowledge etc could give that last piece of needed information.
lack of "the why"
Domain: lack of understanding/the why Technology: movement tracking
Since the school put a great effort in making multidisciplinary subjects a combination of physics and sports using tracking of movement would make sense. It could be both in sprint/throwing/jumping etc. It would be possible to see how different angles affected the throw and get back to the lab to process the measurements. It could give a greater understanding of the physics behind any kind of movement.