Applied Aspects of Instrumental Digital Didactics: M-learning with the Use of Smartphone Sensors

Abstract

According to the concept of the new Ukrainian school, the educa- tional process is undergoing intense changes. This is partly due to the active implementation of a variety of information and communication technologies and mobile equipment. The article discusses the methods of use of mobile ap- plications for physics study. Foreign and Ukrainian experience of using infor- mation-technological and technical capabilities of mobile devices for educa- tional purposes is analyzed. The classification of mobile applications is pro- posed; methodological advantages and disadvantages of their use in the educa- tional process are defined. Mobile applications are an important part of the digi- tal didactics tools. Features of innovative teaching methods based on the use of the measuring, computing, and modeling functions of the sensitive elements of gadgets are revealed. It has been shown that the use of sensors in the teaching of physics is a kind of instrumental digital didactics. Besides, an example of ap- plication the Physics Toolbox Suite to perform a research on the topic Mechan- ics is described in the article.