Dashboard for Environmental Awareness Education

Treball fi de màster de: Master in Cognitive Systems and Interactive MediaDirector: Davinia Hernández-LeoAn educational dashboard can provide opportunities for new methodologies and learning activities aligned with the 21st -century skills and the challenges of our society, such as the fight against climate change. In the context of the TEASPILS project, a dashboard has been developed as part of an IoT system to monitor the environmental conditions of plants, with the aim to promote environmental awareness among students and their teachers. The adoption of such a learning technology enables experience-based activities, but can also arise multiple questions about its impact on students. While dashboard tools for teachers in formal education have been extensively covered in the literature, fewer studies have focused on students, and even lesser on environmental dashboards for education. This research has addressed the implementation of a dashboard for environmental awareness education from different points of view, by designing learning activities based on the TEASPILS dashboard and by implementing and analysing the impact of different dashboard systems -mirroring, alerting, and advising- on the problem-solving skills of primary school students. For these purposes, a workshop around the topic of data analysis to understand the best conditions for a plant was conducted with primary and high school students, bringing the concept of the TEASPILS IoT system into real classrooms for the first time. Results showed a significant positive impact of the activities on the environmental awareness goal. Although no significant differences were found in problem-solving performance between experimental groups, other differences and observations allowed us to gain insight and to unfold some preliminary answers and further questions on the use of AI in education through alerting systems