Developing Smartphone App as a Learning Resource on Rectilinear Motion Topic
Ferina Rizky, Elisabeth Pratidhina, Budijanto Untung, Djoko Wirjawan
Physics Education Study Program, Widya Mandala Catholic University Surabaya
Abstract
Fast development of technology has significant impacts on people-s lifestyle, smartphone is one of the examples. In the past time, mobile phone is mainly used only for communication, however present smartphone can be used for various purposes. Moreover, in most smartphone, the features can be added by installing new supported program. Smartphone is also popular among high school students in Indonesia. That makes smartphone is potential to be used in education, including in learning physics. Smartphone app has some advantages for physics learning platform such as it has high interactivity, it provides more attractive illustration, it is easy to be brought everywhere and so on. In this study, we develop a smartphone app to help high school students in learning rectilinear motion. The smartphone app includes simulation, material, video-animation, and quiz. The use of smartphone app in the learning process is expected to improve students- conceptual understanding and learning independence
Keywords: smartphone app, high-school physics, rectilinear motion
Topic: Physics Education