Benefits of data logger (Tracker software)

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.

Data collection can be automatic so no human presence is necessary, there will be no

silly mistakes or human error during conduction and the data are respectively accurate to the
experiment. It will help student and teacher to get a authentic and reliable result from the
experiment conducted. Therefore, there is no chance of somebody especially students
forgetting to take a reading during the experiment. Readings can be taken very quickly [several
readings every second from a number of different sensors] such as the sensor from the Tracker
software which can detect the velocity of the movement object. Humans could not achieve this,
which is the reading taken with high degrees of accuracy.

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.

In a nutshell, the usage of data logger in order to conducting science experiment is a

helping tools for student and teachers throughout their teaching and learning process. There are
many benefits of using data logger during science subject experiment while the application was
advanced technology that provide a reliable and accurate data according to the science theory.
It is also a combination of ICT in education in order to implement technology and innovation
of multimedia and ICT during teaching and learning process during lab session or in the class.

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