PHYSICS EXPERIMENTS WITH SMARTPHONES AND ACTIVE METHODOLOGIES IN THE CLASSROOM: A SEQUENCE FOR TEACHING ACOUSTIC THROUGH THE PHYPHOX APPLICATION
Smartphones; Phyphox; Sound waves; Experimentation.
In recent years, technological advances have caused major changes in the way of teaching and learning physics, where portable technologies such as smartphones and tablets have become useful resources as instruments for collecting, storing and presenting data. This work explores the use of the cell phone and the phyphox application as an alternative for carrying out physics experiments in the classroom, in order to develop a simpler and more dynamic method of learning, thus increasing student interest in the discipline. The experiments were carried out during physics classes in the 2nd year of high school, and addressed the content of waves, more specifically sound waves. All experiments are easy to assemble and execute and included discussions on physical concepts and principles related to the phenomenon studied. The methodology used in this work has a qualitative-quantitative character and is based on the theory of John Dewey and José Moran and on active learning methodologies. For data collection, questionnaires were used in which the results obtained revealed that the resources present in smartphones are excellent educational tools and should be disseminated in physics classes.