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There are abundance of benefit and advantage of data logger in teaching and learning
process, especially for student. Besides students can perform their experiment and collect data
in simple yet systematically way. First, students can monitoring fast changes in a physical
quantity, such as changes in movement of an object or changes in light intensity. For example,
the application of Tracker Software in Physics subject which student can monitor the fast
changes of the velocity, acceleration of the fast movement object to get the data. Then, by the
data collected from the software, the formula for acceleration object was been automatically
set by the software, the output from the moving object can be presented by graph, table and
comparison between graph.
The other side of the advantages data logger is that the software such as Tracker can be
set to take many readings in a short period of time. Students and teacher can conserve more
time for teaching and learning process rather than wasting time waiting and counting the result
manually during the experiment. The best part of this software to student is that the data
collected from the science experiment such as physics experiment by using the Tracker
software can be processed by specialist software or put into a spreadsheet. Thus, data logger
provide better processing and presentation of results. Lastly, the benefit of data logger by using
Tracker software is that student can measuring changes accurately with the sensor and
interpretation of result from the experiment.
Conclusion
Initially, the main purpose of data logger in education especially for science experiment
is the real-time data collection capability. However, now with the advancement in computers
and software, data logger technology offers various technological advantages. For example,
the new generation of data logger systems enable users to watch events (through video capture)
and collect data simultaneously which perform time and event-triggered data collection, and
carry out live data presentation thus analysis with the use of remote controlled sensors and
wireless data interfaces. Through these technology, data logger in education are also said to
have many pedagogical benefits in science lessons. These advantages include encouraging
students to become actively involved in science lessons, by making them engaged with ideas
and processes rather than mere data collection. Therefore, students will have more time to
discuss ideas, opportunities to suggest explanations for their observations from the result
achieved, and also to test their ideas through the experiment.
References
Lajium, D. (2016). Science Teachers’ Acceptance towards. International Journal on E-
Learning Practices (IJELP), 84-89.