TEACHERS AND STUDENTS SPEAK ABOUT PHET

WHAT IS PHET?

It was also people's deep longing for freedom.

Ryan O'Block Two thumbs up for PHET.

Michael Dusbon I've never heard a student give me negative feedback about a PhET sim.

WHAT MAKES PHET EFFECTlVE?

Douglas Duncan PhET is the iPod of educational software.

It's the achingly sentimental yearning for times that never happened.

PHET IS VlSUAL So I find that PhETs matched very well with the way I visualize what's happening in the system.

Paul Doherty PhET is the best physics simulation software I've ever encountered,

All who thirst for freedom may come with us.

PHET IS SClENTlFICALLY SOUND And with PhET sims there is so much care that goes into each sim that this is not an issue.

PHET PROVlDES REAL WORLD EXAMPLES

Dedra Demaree I love the PhET simulations. I find that they are really fun even for me to play with.

Then we'll go to the PHET sim to see what the right answer is.

One of the unique things about PhET is that it's research based.

There are other PhET sims that are making physics representations make more sense.

Janice Heil We developed this saying in Physics 3, Let's PhET it out.

Some of us would disagree and we'd like, well let's just check the PhET.

Dedra Demaree One of the things that PhET allows that other things don't allow is that when something spontaneously comes up in class,

Rosa longed for a world where justice would not be sacrificed in the name of freedom, nor freedom sacrificed in the name of justice.

Their ardent yearning for peace enables them to play a more important role in the promotion of peace processes.

With the establishment of the new Government in South Africa, there is a considerable keenness in the country to attract foreign investment.

PhET is a collection of over 100 interactive simulations for teaching and learning science.

So in lecture I use PhET in a variety of ways. Sometimes I'm using it just as a demonstration.

Laura Duncan he fact that it comes from research is really important to me.

PHET IS EASY TO USE

The PhET suite of simulations is one of the most carefully thought out simulations that we have employed in our instruction.

The idea of an open workspace allows us then to encourage students to mess about to make sense of the world.

So that demonstrates to me that the impact of the PhET applets right now, is worldwide, which is a remarkable thing.

The easiest way to show the whole class to make sure everyone can see is to have a big PhET sim up on the screen.

Trish Loeblein I think lots of science teachers should use PhET. I think they would really see that students enjoy science more.

His work has been published in numerous international publications, including TIME, Sunday Times Magazine, FT Magazine, Washington Post and The New York Times.

They're all free on the web. You can run them online or you can download them to your computer.

PHET GOES BEYOND THE LAB Paul Doherty Simulations allow you to go beyond what you could do in real life, quickly.

One of the main goals of PhET is to provide students with an open exploratory environment where they can engage with the science content like a scientist.

In a real circuit they can only infer that electrons are flowing wires by the brightness of the bulbs, but in the PhET sims they can see the electrons.

I think PhET definitely provides real world examples things that in the classroom you can't see or get your hands on at all.

Gregor in small hotel rooms had always thought about with a certain longing, when, tired out, he had had to throw himself into the damp bedclothes.

PhET allows you to pause it in the middle and see what the wave equation is at this point or see the velocity at the peak of the ball's motion.

And when students use a PhET simulation, they are focused on the physics, not how do I run this simulation, that's all been made very simple.

It's clear to me that the PhET development team really sweats the details, and so a novice might look at the motion of the molecules in the Gas Law applet

Though much has changed in our world over the last 60 years, one thing has remained constant mankind's yearning for peace, dignity and freedom.

Sapre s answer might not have been the brightest, but if the judges had any idea of how desperate Indians are for sporting success, they would have understood that she was not expressing such an absurd priority.

It reflected the yearning of the Jewish state to unleash its creative energies in economic and social matters, as it created space for an independent, imaginative foreign policy that was not linked to, or conditioned by, the paralyzing constraints of the Arab Israeli conflict.