The Use of Mobile Devices
in Environmental Education
Regina Célia Soares Pereira, Maria Alzira Pimenta Dinis
and Luis Borges Gouveia
Abstract Digital media plays an essential role in the area of Environmental Education. This study intends to propose an activity involving media in environmental
education. The participants came from a Technical Teacher Training school in the
municipality of Cabo Frio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This city has been suffering with
environmental damages and precariousness in the supply of water and sewage treatment, in addition to the excessive amount of solid waste thrown on the beaches in
the high season. Among these, coconut waste. Faced with this situation, a thematic
proposal was developed with the students, comprising an interactive lecture about
different ways of reusing solid coconut waste and about the harmful implications
when it is released to the environment. In order to accompany learning, a playful
activity was performed using the mobile device feature in the Kahoot! application.
Students were then asked to answer a questionnaire in an interactive and collaborative way. It is therefore possible to understand the success of this kind of playful
activities and its possibilities, associated to games using mobile devices, in the context of the teaching-learning process. It can be concluded that the media-education
through mobile devices improves cognitive development, autonomy, creativity and
enables an eminent awareness about social-environmental problems.
Keywords Environmental education · Mobile devices · Coconut waste
R. C. S. Pereira (B) · L. B. Gouveia
University Fernando Pessoa, Praça 9 de Abril, 349, 4249-004 Porto, Portugal
e-mail: rsoarespereira7@gmail.com
L. B. Gouveia
e-mail: lmbg@ufp.edu.pt
R. C. S. Pereira
Fluminense Federal Institure (IFF), Estrada dos Búzios, S/N, Cabo Frio, RJ, Brazil
M. A. P. Dinis
UFP Energy, Environment and Health Research Unit (FP-ENAS), University Fernando Pessoa
(UFP), Praça 9 de Abril, 349, 4249-004 Porto, Portugal
e-mail: madinis@ufp.edu.pt
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
W. Leal Filho et al. (eds.), Universities and Sustainable Communities:
Meeting the Goals of the Agenda 2030, World Sustainability Series,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30306-8_38
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in Environmental Education
Regina Célia Soares Pereira, Maria Alzira Pimenta Dinis
and Luis Borges Gouveia
Abstract Digital media plays an essential role in the area of Environmental Education. This study intends to propose an activity involving media in environmental
education. The participants came from a Technical Teacher Training school in the
municipality of Cabo Frio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This city has been suffering with
environmental damages and precariousness in the supply of water and sewage treatment, in addition to the excessive amount of solid waste thrown on the beaches in
the high season. Among these, coconut waste. Faced with this situation, a thematic
proposal was developed with the students, comprising an interactive lecture about
different ways of reusing solid coconut waste and about the harmful implications
when it is released to the environment. In order to accompany learning, a playful
activity was performed using the mobile device feature in the Kahoot! application.
Students were then asked to answer a questionnaire in an interactive and collaborative way. It is therefore possible to understand the success of this kind of playful
activities and its possibilities, associated to games using mobile devices, in the context of the teaching-learning process. It can be concluded that the media-education
through mobile devices improves cognitive development, autonomy, creativity and
enables an eminent awareness about social-environmental problems.
Keywords Environmental education · Mobile devices · Coconut waste
R. C. S. Pereira (B) · L. B. Gouveia
University Fernando Pessoa, Praça 9 de Abril, 349, 4249-004 Porto, Portugal
e-mail: rsoarespereira7@gmail.com
L. B. Gouveia
e-mail: lmbg@ufp.edu.pt
R. C. S. Pereira
Fluminense Federal Institure (IFF), Estrada dos Búzios, S/N, Cabo Frio, RJ, Brazil
M. A. P. Dinis
UFP Energy, Environment and Health Research Unit (FP-ENAS), University Fernando Pessoa
(UFP), Praça 9 de Abril, 349, 4249-004 Porto, Portugal
e-mail: madinis@ufp.edu.pt
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
W. Leal Filho et al. (eds.), Universities and Sustainable Communities:
Meeting the Goals of the Agenda 2030, World Sustainability Series,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30306-8_38
643