The Use Of Modern Technologies To Help Students Better Understand Physics
Physics education is an essential tool of economic and social development in all nations around the globe. It advocates the application of innovative strategies to prepare students for skills acquisition and knowledge. It is one of the most aspects in science making a significant contribution to innovations, it enables learners acquire problem-solving and decision-making skills that is commonly used in people’s everyday lives. The growing demand of Education in Physics creates an obscure understanding to the learners. Many learners think and say that Physics is difficult. Angell, Gustttersud, Henriken, and Isnes (2004), reveal the views of learners and teachers towards Physics. They concluded that learners find physics difficult, because they need to battle with different complex activities such as experiments, formulas and calculations, graphs, and conceptual explanations at the same time.
In the study conducted by Ebora (2016), Academic Performance in Physics of Fourth Year High School Students in one Public High School in Batangas City, where respondents of the study are the 95 fourth year students, 48 females and 47males of Talumpok National High School, Batangas City, Philippines during School Year 2012-2013. The responses were tallied, scored and tabulated for analysis. The scoring of responses was based on the Likert Scale positioning where in the respondents will chose which is more applicable to them. The values range from 1 to 5 with 1 expressing the lowest value and 5 equivalents to highest value. An equivalent verbal description was used for each of the numerical values. The weighted averages were interpreted based on the given scale: 90 above: Outstanding (O); 85 – 89: Very Satisfactory (VS); 80 – 84: Satisfactory (S); 75 – 79: Unsatisfactory (US); 74 below: Poor (P). The given scale was used to interpret the result of the problems encountered: 4. 5 – 5. 0: Very Serious (VS); 3. 5 – 4. 49: Serious (S); 2. 5 – 3. 49: Moderately Serious (MS); 1. 5 – 2. 49: Slightly Serious (SS); 1. 0 – 1. 49: Not Serious (NS).
Based on the data gathered, no one showed outstanding performance in Physics lecture discussion. There are only 18 students who have very satisfactory performance in Physics with 85-89% grades, 41 who have satisfactory performance with 80-84% grades, 36 who have unsatisfactory with 75-79 % grades and no one got poor performance in Physics. Examination of gathering contrasts as for the recurrence of visual-spatial representations utilized, as expected, revealed that gifted students utilized visual-spatial visualization essentially more regularly than students with learning disabilities. Students with learning disabilities utilized pictorial representations essentially more frequently than gifted students. Results showed that schematic representations were utilized on accurately solved problems approximately 76% of the time. Pictorial representations were utilized around 70% of the ideal opportunity for incorrect solutions. The gathering which was subjected to customary direction (control) have enhanced by around 109. 48% while the other gathering with extra guide through motion picture cuts (trial) performed 137. 96% or around 26. 01% better. The normal distinction of change is around 26. 01% which was figured to be significant. This enhanced execution using film scenes can be ascribed to the sort of intrigue delivered in watching Journal of Academic Research Vol. 02 No. 35 Solis& Orale (2017) physics in real life. As appeared in the investigation of Blasco et. al (2015), films enable the student to get a handle on the theme in an account show grounded in the learners' natural world that is confined in feelings and pictures. Application of visual tools has been proven to be effective in understanding abstract concepts. Educating through motion pictures is a viable method to reach people's full of feeling space and it advances insightful attitudes as it gives interface figures. Instructing with motion pictures triggers that unveil feelings permits inquiries, desires, and problems to emerge for both student and instructor. Utilizing motion pictures in expressions of the human experience are viewed as viable, there were few investigations utilizing motion picture cuts in aiding teaching which was ended up being powerful, for example, the investigation of Dubeck (1998).
Representation in arithmetic includes some combination of either composed images, genuine objects, or mental pictures. Regardless of the combination, the development of a portrayal is basic for comprehension the quantitative connections communicated in an issue keeping in mind the end goal to have the capacity to tackle it. Graphs have frequently been referred to as a great representation technique for speaking to a word issue, as they can be utilized to help unload the structure of an issue and consequently lay the establishment for its answer, rearrange a complex circumstance, and make unique ideas more concrete and, thus, familiar.
Mobile technologies, laptops, notebooks, tablets and smartphones that share data and applications often through cloud-based computing. Illustrated lectures, online everywhere learning, cloud computing, student generated information, demonstrations and hands-on lab activities and projects are all possible with mobile technologies. Mobile-based resources are available for the innovation and entrepreneurial skills of communication, collaboration, creativity, problem solving, assessment, analyzing information, development of critical analytic skills as well as decision making through the use of mobile digital technologies. Currently available are mobile mathematics applications, available for most mobile digital devices. Many of these apps are free. A network study of all available apps found that there were about three times more free apps than paid apps. According to Statista. com, educational apps are the second most downloaded category of app from the Apple App Store and Play Store. About ten percent of seventy-five billion downloaded apps were educational. There are about four thousand math apps in the Apple App Store alone. Technology is quickly reshaping the educational environment across the world. The image of students sitting at library tables scribbling on paper and pounding calculator keys, while surrounded by stacks of books, is being replaced by learners sitting in front of their laptops performing an assignment, while using a smartphone as calculator and a tablet as personal library collection. Best practices in pedagogy and curriculum development are also adapting to this new technological landscape. In mathematics, content and learning aids are readily and abundantly available on the Internet. Additionally, e-assessment (also known as web assessment and computer aided assessment) has become ubiquitous and is publicly encouraged.
This study created a mobile application that provides a visual representation of Physics Problem with Optical Character Recognition. The Photo Physics Problem Illustrator Application was design to provide deep learning among Physics Problems. In addition, the illustrator does not limit only on 2D images but also with 3 dimensional images to give further explanation on more obscure Physics Problem. The study was conducted in the Mandaue City Comprehensive National High School located in North Reclamation, Plaridel ST. Mandaue City.
