Abstract:

The amount of pupils who have and use their own mobile devices as a learning aid is increasing. This paper examines the pupils use of their own mobile devices as a personal laboratory in an educational setting.

Some researches shows that the use of digital technologies in teaching Science subjects leads to higher achievement in educational goals. Using digital technologies in a meaningful way has several advantages, in particular, an increase in pupils' interest in scientific phenomena and also an improvement in pupils' communication skills.

Nowadays, personal mobile devices are equipped with many sensors that pupils can use while learning Physics or other Science subjects so we can say that pupils are carrying a personal laboratory to schools every day.

The paper also describes common sensors that we can find in mobile devices and an application called Phyphox, which can be used for identifying sensors in mobile devices and how educators can use them in Physics lessons.

The paper briefly peruses a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) model which is currently in use and describes how using personal devices can support pupils' learning.

Keywords:

Phyphox, personal mobile device, sensor, Physics.