Abstract:

Information and communication technology (ICT) are becoming more and more used in science education: modeling and simulation software, whiteboards, Internet, virtual experimentation, programming (robotics), numeric books, etc. Concerning eBooks, the focus of this research, there is still a lot of development to be done (Métioui & Trudel, 2011). Indeed, very few of these books are interactive and reflect the conceptual difficulties of students as published in the review of the international literature (Finkelstein, 2005; Planinic, 2006; Métioui & Trudel, 2010). The present research shares this approach and aims to develop the structure of an interactive numeric book on the basic notions related to the magnetic phenomenon. We will see that the book’s structure appears in line with the constructivist model of active learning and so, the 7 experiments presented considered the students and teachers erroneous models about magnetism as documented in the international review and the ICT progress. The book developed will be used by pre-service and in-service elementary and secondary teachers as by their students.

Keywords:

ICT, numeric book, magnetism, pre-service teachers, elementary and secondary school