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Teaching physics by integrating the traditional experiment, the computer controlled experiment and computer simulation. | |
| M. Fonseca, A. Hurtado,
C. Lombana, O. Ocaña Universidad Distrital, Francisco José de Caldas, Bogotá - Colombia Proyecto Curricular de Licenciatura en Física Grupo Física e Informática |
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In the ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) age, computer science progresses and provides new tools for learning processes. Universities are now under curricular reformations to find or adjust their ways of teaching, incorporating didactic technological tools. Computer science has become an almost indispensable tool to support the different disciplines, including education with virtual learning scenarios. To understand the modern the technologically developed world, it is necessary to have knowledge on physics. Sciences of the nature (physics as part of them), have themselves a high cultural value. Traditionally teaching physics has been seen as theoretical conferences followed by experimental demos or practices based on a set of instructions. We think that experimental work should be focused as an approach which conceives the learning as a construction of knowledge, in this case, of nature. So, it is necessary to the student get familiarized with the activities of scientific work, to be able to understand what he studies. in is this way, it is very important to present the physics experiments as problems to solve or small investigations to carry out. So, if we should lead the interest of the students to a problem situation, whose solution should involve: some “thinking”; doing numerical calculus by hand, doing some numerical experiments, by using a computer; doing single experiments; doing experiments with data acquisition equipment and computer data analysis; doing simulations by using or developing suitable software for mathematics or physics. The use of the interactive laboratories of simulation let the students to enlarge the number of studied phenomena, since they don't have to be limited to the analytical soluble ones provided by the text books To elevate the quality of the learning and of the teaching of the
physics including the use of technological tools not isolated, and
to provide and /or explore a possible methodological alternative to
teach physics, we have been working with some students of last semesters
of Licentiate in Physics at the Distrital University, in “Teaching
physics by integrating the traditional experiment, the computer controlled
experiment and computer simulation”. |
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