Physics Educators as Designers of Simulation using Easy Java Simulation (Ejs)

TL;DR

This paper discusses how physics educators can act as designers of simulations using Easy Java Simulation (Ejs), leveraging open-source tools and collaborative online communities to enhance physics teaching and learning.

Contribution

It highlights the role of physics educators as active designers of simulations through Ejs, fostering collaborative development and remixing of models for inquiry-based physics education.

Findings

Educators can effectively develop physics simulations using Ejs.

Open source collaboration enhances simulation quality and relevance.

Remixed simulations facilitate inquiry-based learning in physics.

Abstract

To deepen the professional practice of physics educators, I seek to highlight the Open Source Physics (OSP) and Easy Java Simulation (Ejs or EJS) community of educators that engage, enable and empower teachers as learners so that we can be leaders in our teaching practice. I learned through Web 2 online collaborative means to develop simulations together with reputable physicists through the open source digital library. By examining the open source codes of the simulation through the Ejs toolkit, I was able to examine and make sense of the physics from the computational models created by practicing physicists. I will share some of the simulations that I have remixed from existing library of simulations models into suitable learning environments for inquiry of physics. http://www.phy.ntnu.edu.tw/ntnujava/index.php?board=28.0