  In case of inquiry-based education, the priority is the pupil's activity,
developing his/her practical and research skills. We can use the knowledge and
skills obtained by the pupil from other subjects. Applied informatics into
physics seems to be a suitable application of digital literacy. Open IT tools
are the ones of the available IT tools that bring several benefits to promote
freedom of inquiry. An overview of open IT tools for physics education includes
microprocessor kits with a variety of analog and digital electronic components,
a large number of application software, simulation software, programming
languages, libraries and development environments, web tools, virtual
laboratories, data catalogs, hypertext documents and other auxiliary resources.
Such open IT tools together with suitable open educational resources will be
applicable in physics, mathematics, informatics and other subjects.
