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This article describes the 25-year history of development of the activity-based Workshop Physics (WP) at Dickinson College, its adaptation for use at Gettysburg Area High School, and…
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The combination of modern computing power, the interactivity of web applications, and the flexibility of object-oriented programming may finally be sufficient to create computer…
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Research on learning shows that students learn better when they construct
their own understanding of scientific ideas within the framework of their existing knowledge. To accomplish…
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We give an overview of the Physics Educational Technology (PhET) project to research and develop web-based interactive simulations for teaching and learning physics. The design…
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The Physics Education Technology (PhET) project creates useful simulations for teaching and learning physics and makes them freely available from the PhET website…
G. Passante and A. Kohnle, Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res., 15 (1), 010110 (2019).
Time dependence is of fundamental importance for the description of quantum systems, but is particularly difficult for students to master. We describe the development and evaluation…
