New Perspectives in Science Education

The digitization of STEM teaching presents teachers with a number of challenges and decisions. Starting with the choice of basic digital equipment suitable for their lessons through digital whiteboards, tablets or laptops, the acquisition costs of various digital measuring devices, such as pH meters, photometers or conductometers further complicate the use of digital measurement technology in STEM lessons. In order to meet the requirements of contemporary and digital teaching, it is equally desirable for teachers to ensure that the digital infrastructure and measurement technology are as compatible as possible in order to teach digital skills in a targeted manner. At the same time, the measuring devices should ideally remain affordable enough to ensure that student-centered instruction remains possible.

The LabPi measurement station, which is based on the Raspberry Pi minicomputer, offers a cost-effective solution for digital data acquisition and combines various measurement instruments into a uniform low-cost measurement station with the aid of a large number of miniature sensors [1]. It is didactically tailored to teaching and, with the help of the associated cloud platform COMPare, provides the space for collaborative teaching-learning opportunities.

In this article, we will show how the new LabPi-Web interface extends the existing measurement system with novel and cloud-based functions. It will be shown in which areas of teaching the use of a cloud-based measurement system can offer advantages and create new learning opportunities.