Physics Educators as Designers of Simulation using Easy Java Simulation (Ejs) Part 2*

TL;DR

This paper discusses how physics educators collaboratively develop and remix open-source simulations using Easy Java Simulation to enhance inquiry learning and foster a community of DIY physics educational tools.

Contribution

It introduces a collaborative approach for physics teachers to create and adapt simulations using EJS within the open source physics community.

Findings

Teachers remix simulations for inquiry-based physics learning.

Open source collaboration enhances simulation development.

Physicists' models are made accessible for educational remixing.

Abstract

To deepen do-it-yourself (DIY) technology in the physics classroom, we seek to highlight the Open Source Physics (OSP) community of educators that engage, enable and empower teachers as learners so that we create DIY technology tools-simulation for inquiry learning. We learn 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 Easy Java Simulation (EJS) toolkit, we are able make sense of the physics from the computational models created by practicing physicists. We will share newer (2010-present) simulations that we have remixed from existing library of simulations models into suitable learning environments for inquiry of physics. We hope other teachers would find these simulations useful and remix them that suit their own context and contribute back to benefit all humankind, becoming citizens for the world. Abstract Footnotes: website prior to the meeting http://www.phy.ntnu.edu.tw/ntnujava/index.php?board=28.0 *Extension of Wee, L. K. (2010, 20 July). Physics Educators as Designers of Simulation using Easy Java Simulation (EJS). Paper presented at the American Association of Physics Teachers National Meeting Conference: 2010 Summer Meeting, Portland, Oregon, USA.