The role of computers in education of phisics

Szabó Krisztina-Ágota <krisztin@caesar.elte.hu>

ELTE BTK Doktori Iskola

An ininiative has been started in 1991 in the USA, that spread all over the World by now: provide Internet access to schools . Through this teachers and students got an easy way to find new information, share experiences with their colleges country-wide and abroad. In the recent years the interest in natural sciences has decreased. It is particularly true in case of Physics: the students are less motivated, the number of students whose major is physics significantly decreased. Meanwile the the interest in computers dramaticaly increased.

Appearance of hypertext, hypermedia, spreading of computer and Internet usage give us new possibilities in field of education too (up-to-date, nonlinear "books",remote learning, interactivity, simulations). The new education method, that is based on these tools, is not used in general till now.

In this talk at first some example will be presented connected with the application of the digital pedagogy in school practice and after it some web pages which are useful in physics teaching will be shown. Finally, the constraints of the application of these methods will be discussed.