Abstract
More and more of today’s devices are electronic and software operated. Since they measure the signals of the real world and act as a result of processing, informatics is getting closer to interdisciplinary fields. The technology of everyday devices, automotive industry, Industry 4.0, Internet of Things (IoT) are based al-so on engineering, physics, electronics, biology and other fields besides informatics. Accordingly, the in-terdisciplinarity is important in education too, it is essential to teach related solutions of technology for the informatics teacher students since they will certainly need it during their teaching practice. Although the development of technology is still very rapid, the main principles of operation remain the same, so education should focus on this rather than on the teaching of a current software development environ-ment or hardware realization. Following this idea, we have worked out several laboratory exercises for our programme of informatics teacher students. During their work they construct some circuits, write the code and practice the fundamental methods of embedded software development. We report on how they could understand and learn the most important principles during working on an educational, a commer-cial, an industrial and a medical field related exercise. The associated experience-based learning helps sys-tematic understanding and development of creativity. Based on our experience, students are getting more self-confident by the use of modern technical systems, which we consider particularly important.
Highlights
One of the most important issues of education is how to adapt to the rapid development of technology
An important part of the training of informatics teacher students is to teach about the operation principles of the common electronic devices operated by processors and software
Due to the rapid development of tools and software, it is essential to become more familiar with the universal principles and creative application of these
Summary
One of the most important issues of education is how to adapt to the rapid development of technology. It is a serious problem that pupils and students feel strange in the school environment; they do not understand why to learn several parts of the curriculum This is getting to be a common approach in public thinking too: the school should teach what is needed in practice. As IT solutions are getting common in more and more fields (education, industry, medicine, communication, navigation, entertainment, etc.), a certain level of interdisciplinary knowledge and openness is very useful Many people find it hopeless to understand the operating principles of modern devices, they are considered as "black boxes" even more than before, it is thought we can't see the details of operation. The principles that can be observed in everyday life We focus on practical education, and we aim to teach the required theoretical background and universal principles that can be learnt more efficiently during laboratory practices
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