ACTIVATION OF STUDENTS' COGNITIVE ACTIVITY IN THE LABORATORY WORKSHOP ON THE STUDY OF γ-RADIATION USING DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES

Abstract

This article investigates the impact of digital technologies on enhancing students' cognitive activity in laboratory studies of γ-radiation. The study focuses on the development and implementation of experimental tasks based on the cycles of experimental and theoretical research. The comparison of real and virtual experiments allows us to demonstrate the alignment between the cycles, emphasize the importance of digital tools in physics education, and highlight the potential of virtual experiments to complement real-world research. The research findings indicate that the proposed research and applied experimental tasks, as well as phenomenological, functional, and constant experiments, significantly improve the quality of students' scientific knowledge. The study emphasizes the need to stimulate students' cognitive activity and highlights the potential of using software for simulating physical experiments and laboratory work in physics to achieve this goal. The article outlines the features of such software, which should meet the following requirements: Interactivity and visualization: enabling interactive user interaction and graphical visualization of experimental results for a better understanding of physical processes. Realism: using realistic parameters and providing reliable physical data. Parameter customization: allowing for the modification of experimental parameters to explore different scenarios and obtain diverse results. Result analysis: providing functions for analyzing the obtained data, including plotting graphs, processing results, and comparing them with theoretical models. Support for teachers and students: offering tools for creating and sharing laboratory work, as well as opportunities for collaborative project work between teachers and students (access to a shared cloud environment). The article argues that software meeting these requirements will effectively assist students and teachers in conducting laboratory work in physics and expand their opportunities for studying and exploring physical phenomena. The prospects for further research lie in the development and testing of such software.