IT priemonių taikymo ypatumai per technologijų pamokas
ICT measures application of peculiarities in technology lessons

Summary/Abstract: Relevance. There have been performed a number of studies and international projects in the country, related to IT deployment and ICT skills education in schools: since year 2004, a “General computer literacy” research is carried out annually, a series of scientific, methodological, information works, reports have been produced to convey experience of the ICT implementation in education. The study was conducted to investigate how ICT education skills are organized in technology lessons. The aim of the research is to analyze IT tools application peculiarities in the elementary school for 5–8 classes in the technology lessons. The objectives of the research are as follows: 1. To identify the importance of education for pupils’ ICT skills in the elementary school during technology lessons. 2. To investigate the aims of IT usage during educational process which are used by technology teachers. 3. To analyse the features of ICT application skills during technology lessons for 5–8 grade students. 4. Summarize the major problems associated with the application of IT in the technology lessons. The empirical method was applied in the research. The survey was carried out in 2011–2012 school year at Lithuanian general education schools. The data of all respondents was statistically treated (n = 603): managers of elementary school (n = 215), technology teachers (n = 112) and 5–8 grades students (n = 276). The study found that in order to develop pupils’ skills in information technology more attention should be paid to ensuring high-speed internet connection, the installation of computer individual sites, modern interactive teaching material, learning space development, educational content adaptation for work in cyberspace, for dissemination of good practice. It is also important to create conditions for students to develop consistently the ICT application skills through technology lessons in general education schools. In the educational content, IT dominate as a tool for reaching the lesson objectives, effectively exploiting the lesson time and space. The survey revealed that majority of teachers plan the use of ICT in lessons and always include it in the annual work plans. Most of the teachers use IT in extracurricular activities. Technology teachers use IT often and have used almost the same amount of all programs during classes. The study revealed that the most popular and most commonly used are the search, preparation of presentations and text editing programs.

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