The Use of Educational Scenarios Using State-of-the-Art IT Technologies Such as Ubiquitous Computing, Mobile Computing and the Internet of Things as an Incentive to Choose a Scientific Career

摘要

By definition, technology seeks to exploit scientific knowledge in order to serve today's practical human needs. The promotion of IT-related technologies such as Ubiquitous Computing, Mobile Computing and the Internet of Things (UMI) is a matter of great concern to the scientific community due to their diffusion in all areas of human activities. The educational community recognizes the above technologies as a tool that can be used to improve the quality and effectiveness of the education, while, at the same time, is facing the challenge to highlight ways to utilize the technical characteristics of UMI technologies in order to lead to learning, not just the information accessibility. The presented research contains a proposal for the exploitation of innovative technologies in the field of education and presents the results of its implementation. More specifically, it is a proposal to use UMI technologies in the field of formal Secondary Education based on educational scenarios. Additionally, it is investigated if using UMI while teaching the 15-17-year-old students provides learning- not only ubiquitous access to information- and if it serves as a motivator for choosing a career in science and technology.