High-Tech Tools for Teaching Physics: the Physics Education Technology Project

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written by Noah D. Finkelstein, Wendy K. Adams, Christopher Keller, Katherine Perkins, Carl E. Wieman, and the PhET

This paper introduces a suite of computer simulations from the Physics Education Technology (PhET) project, identifies features of these educational tools, and demonstrates their utility. We compare the use of PhET simulations to the use of more traditional educational resources in lecture, laboratory, recitation and informal settings of introductory college physics. In each case we demonstrate that simulations are as productive, or more productive, for developing student conceptual understanding as real equipment, reading resources, or chalk-talk lectures. We further identify six key characteristic features of these simulations that begin to delineate why these are productive tools. The simulations: support an interactive approach, employ dynamic feedback, follow a constructivist approach, provide a creative workplace, make explicit otherwise inaccessible models or phenomena, and constrain students productively.

Journal of Online Learning and Teaching: Volume 2, Issue 3, Pages 12

https://jolt.merlot.org/vol2no3/finkelstein.pdf

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Education - Applied Research - Active Learning = Modeling - Instructional Material Design = Simulation - Technology = Computers Education - Basic Research - Problem Solving = Representational Use General Physics - Collections - Scientific Reasoning	- Lower Undergraduate - High School	- Reference Material = Article = Research study

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License:: This material is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 license.
Rights Holder:: Journal of Online Learning and Teaching
NSF Numbers:: DUE-0410744; DUE-0442841
Keywords:: PhET, Physics teaching, computer simulation, interactive simulation, representations, student learning, student understanding, visualization
Record Creator:: Metadata instance created July 11, 2012 by Zachary Davis
Record Updated:: June 1, 2022 by Caroline Hall
Last Update when Cataloged:: September 1, 2006
Other Collections:: The Physics Front

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<a href="https://www.per-central.org/items/detail.cfm?ID=12215">Finkelstein, N, W. Adams, C. Keller, K. Perkins, C. Wieman, and PhET. "High-Tech Tools for Teaching Physics: the Physics Education Technology Project." J. Online Learn. & Teaching. 2, no. 3, (September 1, 2006): 12.</a>

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N. Finkelstein, W. Adams, C. Keller, K. Perkins, C. Wieman, and PhET, , J. Online Learn. & Teaching 2 (3), 12 (2006), WWW Document, (https://jolt.merlot.org/vol2no3/finkelstein.pdf).

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N. Finkelstein, W. Adams, C. Keller, K. Perkins, C. Wieman, and PhET, High-Tech Tools for Teaching Physics: the Physics Education Technology Project, J. Online Learn. & Teaching 2 (3), 12 (2006), <https://jolt.merlot.org/vol2no3/finkelstein.pdf>.

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Finkelstein, N., Adams, W., Keller, C., Perkins, K., Wieman, C., & PhET. (2006, September 1). High-Tech Tools for Teaching Physics: the Physics Education Technology Project. J. Online Learn. & Teaching, 2(3), 12. Retrieved September 10, 2024, from https://jolt.merlot.org/vol2no3/finkelstein.pdf

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Finkelstein, N, W. Adams, C. Keller, K. Perkins, C. Wieman, and PhET. "High-Tech Tools for Teaching Physics: the Physics Education Technology Project." J. Online Learn. & Teaching. 2, no. 3, (September 1, 2006): 12, https://jolt.merlot.org/vol2no3/finkelstein.pdf (accessed 10 September 2024).

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Finkelstein, Noah, Wendy Adams, Christopher Keller, Katherine Perkins, Carl Wieman, and PhET. "High-Tech Tools for Teaching Physics: the Physics Education Technology Project." J. Online Learn. & Teaching 2.3 (2006): 12. 10 Sep. 2024 <https://jolt.merlot.org/vol2no3/finkelstein.pdf>.

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