The experience of distance and combined learning during the pandemic COVID-19 has demonstrated the complexity of organizing experimental research in natural sciences, especially physics. In conditions of limited access to full-sized laboratory equipment, smartphones have significant potential: they contain sensitive elements (distance, lighting, magnetic field sensors, accelerometer, GPS and others). Their use in the educational process of teaching physics is effective for the formation of key and subject skills of students in terms of the digital age. The use of digital means of obtaining and processing experimental data during the educational process in natural sciences enriches pedagogical science with methods that can be described by the general concept of «instrumental digital didactics» (IDD). The authors explain a definition of IDD, identify the types and functions of IDD tools. It is shown that the use of smartphone sensors for educational research in physics demonstrates the intersection of the conceptual fields of IDD and m-learning. Foreign and Ukrainian experience of the use of information technology capabilities of smartphones at the physics study is analyzed;in this context, the classification of mobile applications, in particular, designed to process data from sensitive elements is considered. An anonymous survey in June and December 2020 concerning the distance learning experience revealed, on the one hand, the presence of earlier experience and interest of students in use of smartphone sensors for physics research, on the other hand, the need for clear instructions. The methods proposed by the authors, which are demonstrated on the resource STEM-laboratory MANLab (stemua.science), do not require an experiment in a laboratory and are based on the use of only sensitive elements of a smartphone and PC. The design features of sensors can also be studied during physics lessons. The author’s technological map of use of the mobile application Phyphox for laboratory work on the topic «Mechanics» is proposed. © 2021, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
Instrumental Digital Didactics of Physics Study in the Aspect of M-learning