One of the increasingly important areas in modern society is the knowledge and understanding of digital skills. We decided to combine learning digital skills using the Colibri Air platform and air quality issues. The Colibri Air platform consists of the Colibri Air electronic development board, which contains sensors for air quality monitoring, and the ThingsBoard cloud platform, which enables the visualization of data obtained from the sensors.
The central research problem of the diploma thesis is the design and implementation of Colibri Air workshops for young people. With this, we want to encourage them to acquire digital skills with the help of an air quality monitoring platform. We also focus on positioning the Colibri Air platform among existing similar platforms such as Micro:bit, Learnometer, Adafruit Circuit Playground and various Arduino-based platforms. We want to make a comparison between these platforms and Colibri Air and find out the advantages, disadvantages and possibilities for upgrading the Colibri Air platform.
We held several sets of workshops where we introduced the Colibri Air platform to the participants. We adapted the workshops several times and changed the program according to the circumstances and feedback from the participants. In addition, we compared the capabilities of the Colibri Air platform with various similar platforms.
Our comparison showed that the Colibri Air platform offers a wide range of options for air quality monitoring, which is important to adapting to different needs and requirements. We found that the Colibri Air platform is effective in teaching digital skills to the young people who participated in our workshops, and is more suitable for students in upper grades of primary and secondary schools. In the years 2021 – 2023, we held four sets of workshops, a total of 44 workshops. In all years, we had around 50 participants, and 10 participants took part in the workshops for the second year in a row. A comparison with other platforms showed that Colibri Air platform has several advantages, such as ease of use and a wide range of air quality measurements, and that there are also some opportunities for upgrades.
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