Google Jam board as a possible solution for e-learning in preschool

Author(s): María Boltá Hidalgo / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2021

The purpose of this article is to explain some of the barriers that preschool teachers can face when they are trying to implement ICT resources in their classes. At the same time, we will suggest some ideas to overcome them as well as examples of different activities developed at CEIP San Fernando, a public school in Tenerife, Spain. Although they are about prehistory, they can be applied to many different themes. Also, some can be used on different devices, like tablets in case of an online learning environment for a lockdown due to Covid-19 situation. Another topic that we will be focusing on is the use of physical resources that complement the digital experience.

Remote education during COVID-19 - the analysis of Polish and German schools

Author(s): Paulina Burkot,Amy Sepioł,Nataliia Demeshkant / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2021

As a result of the pandemic, education has moved into virtual space on an unprecedented scale. Teachers were obliged to give up traditional and direct relationships in the school classroom, in favor of remote teaching using modern technologies. The purpose of this study was to determine the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on education and to compare the problems and ways of coping with them between Polish and German schools. The study used a qualitative measure, which was realized through telephone interviews with school principals. The received responses have been transcribed and categorized. The final stage was a comparative analysis of the data obtained. The results of the study revealed that the most common problems concerned: the possession and functionality of teaching resources for remote learning (computer equipment, network connection), ensuring the needs of face-to-face relationships (lack of peer meetings and no direct contact with the teacher), mental problems caused by changes in education (depression, anxiety, feelings of stress) in teachers and students. Among the ways schools deal with these problems are leadership role of school leaders (support, staff training, mental support of students and teachers (meetings with a pedagogue, a school psychologist, conducting remote social meetings with students). In conclusion, there is a similarity among the problems related to remote education in both countries. At the same time, some differences in how to cope with them have been revealed.

Outdoor Education in Times of the Pandemic - The Use of ActionBound Application

Author(s): Małgorzata Nodzyńska-Moroń,Martin Bílek / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2021

Education in times of the pandemic requires the use of new solutions. One of the biggest challenges is the implementation of out-of-body education. The article proposes a tool that allows the teacher to plan a trip (with various tasks and challenges). This application then allows the student to complete the task on their own, i.e. to go on a trip (with all the challenges planned by the teacher). The article describes the results of the study by 110 teachers who have been trained in the use of this application. The obtained results allow us to state that, regardless of gender, education and age, the vast majority of the surveyed teachers (50 to 75%) appreciate the role of the ActionBound application in the preparation of the trip and plan to use it in the near future.

The impact of digitalization on society in the context of public services in Poland

Author(s): Marcin Piątkowski,Jakub Misztal / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2022

The aim of this article is to demonstrate the impact of digitalization on society in the area of public services in Poland. This issue must be recognised as extremely important, because digitalization is one of the elements driving the development of the national economy and contributing to its socio-​economic development, as well as supporting the emergence of information society. The article presents the benefits and threats of digitalization of public services in Poland from a user perspective in the areas of administration, education and transport. The authors attempt to answer the question of how digitalization has changed the accessibility to public services in the areas mentioned, as well as how it affects society. The article is descriptive and analytical in nature and was developed on the basis of a literature review, as well as available statistical data from the Eurostat and CSO databases.

Problematyka internetu na łamach „Przeglądu Edukacyjnego. Pisma Nauczycieli” w latach 1994–2020

Author(s): Mariola Antczak,Monika Wachowicz / Language(s): Polish Issue: 19/2021

This article examined quantitatively and qualitatively, the evolution of the Internet theme in the journal, Przegląd Edukacyjny between 1994 and 2020. Through the use of the browse, bibliographic and bibliometrics methods, it was found that 50 articles in the journal address Internet issues, and the journal’s first issue about the internet was written in 2000. The issue was introduced by Prof. Bogusław Śliwerski who wrote about the need for the rational use of the Internet in education and its influence on the shape of the school of the future. In the second half of the first decade of this century, the topic of the Internet was most often discussed in the already published Issues 14 to 17, and these comprised 90% of the 50 articles found. The articles covered the following (in order of the most frequently appearing issues): projects, educational competitions, advantages of using the Internet in the classroom, threats related to the use of the Internet, e-learning, m-learning, news from the world of science, copyrights, social media and rules of creating and editing Internet messages.

Czytanie, oglądanie w czasach pandemii (na przykładzie sondażu wśród studentów). Rekonesans badawczy

Author(s): Anna Dymmel / Language(s): Polish Issue: 19/2021

The article demonstrates the results of the research which was carried out during the first year of the COVID 19 pandemic. The research included the reading practices among students, and the extent to which they used audio-visual media. The pandemic and its limitations resulted in rapid changes in all spheres of social life, economy, culture, and education. They also affected the everyday life of young people (including students). The article demonstrates the results of survey research conducted among the students of information architecture at the University of Maria Curie-Skłodowska in Lublin in March 2021. The research included the analysis of students’ behaviour in their free time and some selected indicators of the reading practices, with particular attention to the intensity of reading and the reading choices. The intensity and preferences of the use of audio-visual media was included. The potential differences between the time before pandemic and the period of isolation were also taken into account. I also discussed the specificity of book market in Poland, and I considered the context of the general changes in book market in Europe and other continents which were affected by the pandemic.

Anotační příspěvky z konference Současnost a historie – vzdělávání v době pandemie – studentská vědecká konference

Author(s): Jan Bíba,Štefan Němeček,Jan Dobrý,Filip Jírový,Gabriela Fatková,Tereza Beránková,Anna Krauzová,Jiří Polívka,Kamila Jelínková,Jana Březinová,Pavla Králová,Ondřej Novák,Simona Pacandová,Petra Koudelková,jan Hostaš,Martin Polák,Martina Turoňová,Jana Balvínová,Věra Jančová,Vlasta Malá,Marie Fritzová / Language(s): Czech Issue: 2/2022

This paper contains brief conference annotations of following topics: 1. Relevance zkoušení během pandemie COVID19 2. Vliv pandemie na motivaci během učení 3. Distanční výuka na základních školách pohledem rodičů během pandemie COVID-19 4. Důvody studijní neúspěšnosti na FF ZČU od roku 2020 5. Vliv pandemie na psaní kvalifikačních prací 6. Příprava na SZZ a její průběh v době pandemie 7. Distanční výuka žáků se specifickými poruchami učení během pandemie COVID-19 pohledem vyučujících 8. Distanční výuka na vysokých školách pohledem vyučujícího během pandemie COVID-19 9. Distanční výuka na vysokých školách pohledem studentů během pandemie COVID19 10. Distanční výuka na základních školách pohledem vyučujících během pandemie COVID 19 11. Pandemie a sociální izolovanost žáků ZŠ 12. Vliv pandemie na motivaci žáků středních škol během učení 13. Vliv pandemie na motivaci během učení (pohled učitelů) 14. Využívání nových technologií během pandemie 15. Analýza příčin neúspěšnosti studenta na VŠ 16. Vzdělávání odsouzených v době pandemie 17. Výhody a nevýhody distanční výuky z pohledu izraelských a českých univerzitních studentů – případová studie

The art of education: Creative thinking and video games

Author(s): Lina Georgieva,Alexander Nikulin / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2023

The COVID-19 pandemic has shed new light on some significant problems that have been present in the education systems for decades. Тhe lack of various educational methods is becoming more and more evident, leading to a decreasing interest in learning and critical thinking. Оn the other hand, more and more research shows that different types of digital games can enhance creative and critical thinking in students. А closer look at the requirements of the educational programs shows how strict they are in their demands on students. Digital games like role playing games can be a bridge between students’ imaginations and complex educational material. Video games feature a variety of game mechanics that stimulate creative thinking and spark interest in otherwise difficult to understand topics. Motivation and engagement in digital games can be used in a specific way for educational purposes. If we think of teaching as an art in itself, what better method of teaching than through interactive arts.

EMOTIONS AND EDUCATION: MEDIA REPRESENTATIONS IN THE DISCOURSE ON SCHOOL CLOSURES IN POLISH AND BRITISH INTERNET PORTALS

Author(s): Małgorzata Gruchoła / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

The aim of the article is to present the representations of emotions (happiness, anger, sadness, fear, worry, stuckness, compassion, dumbing, stagnation, humiliation, sense of guilt, hope, hate, sense of privilege solidarity, boredom, banality), neighbourly solidarity in the texts of the opinion-forming portals Polityka (PL) and The Spectator (UK), referring to school closures due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and their media representations in the public (the perspective of a teacher, school headmaster, member of the government, expert) and private domain (the perspective of a student and parent), in the processual approach (a catalogue of events), in the context of technological changes (distant learning), as well as socio-cultural (human relationships, domestic violence) and economic (social benefits) contexts. Our hypothesis is that, in line with the concept of the culture of fear by Frank Furedi, the way the internet content is created and construed is supposed to evoke the emotion of fear. We performed a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the content of 78 articles published in Polityka and 12 in The Spectator, between 1 March 2020 and 30 July 2020, found with the use of a search engine. We observed at least three levels of information sources on emotions in the studied groups: the main character of the article, the one who experiences emotions (perspective of the sender); the author/editor of the article, who does evaluation and interpretation (perspective of the gatekeeper) and the reader (perspective of the addressee). On these levels, emotions can result from their literal identification; from an interpretation of a given situation, from the situational context (contextual emotions) and from the non-verbal clues and physical reactions of the organism. The hypothesis was partially confirmed. Despite the fact the school closures, as represented by the media, generates mostly the emotion of fear, the emotion prevalent in the discourse on the consequences of school closures and on the evaluation of remote education is sadness (Polityka) and compassion (The Spectator). However, the dominant emotion, both in the public-private and public domain, is the one of sadness.

ANALYZING THE EFFECTS OF DEMOGRAPHIC AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC FACTORS ON EFFICACY OF DIGITALIZATION IN INDIA’S HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEM DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Author(s): Bharat Kumar Meher,Iqbal Thonse Hawaldar,Ramona Birau,Santosh KUMAR,Sumit Singha,Ninulescu Petre Valeriu,Abhishek Kumar Gupta,Sheila Sison / Language(s): English Issue: 01/2023

The purpose of this study is to assess the efficacy of the digitalization in higher education of Bihar during the lockdowns of colleges and universities due to covid-19 pandemic and to find whether gender, course opted, stream of study, medium of study, residential area, family income level, online class attended, actual time spent on using internet for education, and ownership of gadgets used in online classes affect the effectiveness of digitalization in higher education in Bihar. The data used in this study are primary in nature and collected by using the questionnaire method from 429 students of thirteen different state universities and one open university. As many predictors are categorical in nature multinomial logistic regression has been used to assess the impact of various demographic and socio-economic factors on efficacy of digitalization in higher education in Bihar. It has been found that the variables like monthly income of the family, time actually spent by the students for education by using internet per day, stream of the study, medium of the study, residential area and gender are significant factors that affect the digitalization in higher education in Bihar during the pandemic. The study could contribute in two ways. First, the results of efficacy of digitalization in higher education in Bihar of a lowest education index ranking state will depict an authentic picture of effectiveness of digitalization in higher education in Bihar in backward states and thereby add up to the existing literature and second, the significant factors of the model could assist the policy makers in taking corrective measures while taking any decision to digitalize the education in such kind of states in India.

Интегрирана система за наблюдение на морския компонент на Република България

Author(s): Niko Kukov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2023

The report examines the need for a maritime control and surveillance system adequate to modern conditions, guaranteeing a high degree of security, as well as for appropriate training of the forces to perform the tasks related to this control. Under the conditions formed in recent years, the relevance is further strengthened by the specific geostrategic situation of the Black Sea, as well as by the growing potential danger of illegal arms trafficking, drug trafficking, illegal migration, trafficking of cultural and historical heritage and the risk of terrorist acts. At the same time, the current situation in the region, a result of the ongoing military conflict between the Black Sea states, requires the states to take timely actions in order to minimize the negative consequences and prevent future, similar processes and phenomena.

Snowflake Generation and problems caused by pandemic restrictions. An analysis starting from Constantin Noica and Max Weber

Author(s): Samira Cîrlig,Narcis Rupe,Alin Bulumac / Language(s): English Issue: 1-2/2022

This paper aims to address, in the form of brief considerations, one aspect of the snowflake generation and some of the student issues arising from the pandemic restrictions imposed between 2020 and 2022. These aspects of social reality are approached from a philosophical (the way in which a concept is defined, Constantin Noica) and from a sociological (the comprehensive method of cognition These authors prove that we can know concepts, or social facts, if we compare them with ''something else'': with an opposite (Noica), or with an ideal-typical construction (Weber). Thus, we see that the snowflake generation “should” (ideal-typical) be characterized predominantly by an effervescent attitude to the problems of life, but they are not. Restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic have further decreased the vitality of young people in the snowflake generation, young people with the highest rates of depression and anxiety between 2020 and 2022. In this context, online learning, being a form of interaction between young people and their peers and teachers, did not reduce depression and anxiety in these young people during the COVID-19 pandemic, although it ‘should’ (ideally-typically) have reduced them.

Digital Skills through the Lens of Gamified Activities in Language Mediation. The DIAL4U Erasmus+Project

Author(s): Ioana Mudure-Iacob,Alexandra Cotoc,Veronica Diana Micle,Ana Maria Hopârtean,Daniel Andronache,Raluca Pop / Language(s): English Issue: 24/2023

The current study intended to analyse the perception of foreign language higher education instructors and higher education students in Romania regarding the increase of their digital skills and the use of digital tools in the COVID-19 pandemic. Online instruction provided a multitude of challenges and opportunities for designing instructional content. Our respondents concluded that language learning games and gamified instruction represent valuable tools in reconfiguring the scenario within language classes. By exploring these opportunities that increase students’ participation, interactivity and accessibility, the teaching and learning experience can be improved and adapted to more complex and ever-changing technological advances.

State and Education Policies in the Context of the Coronavirus Pandemic

Author(s): Enache Tușa,Ilie Iulian Mitran / Language(s): English Issue: 76/2022

Due to the present context which is marked by the pandemic, the education system was forced to become more adaptable to digital environments. Teachers, students, homework and the various educational resources that were used, along with the way in which communication was done, became essential tools in the educational process. The new social context brought with itself significant changes both in the management of school and classrooms. The same thing can be said about scheduling and the manner in which one can effectively carry out activities, knowing that each child and family has their own peculiarities. The family and the school need pragmatic and dynamic solutions for the new school year, adapted to local realities, with full compliance with the regulations established by the Ministry of Health. Under these conditions, the absence of a real and coherent plan regarding education during the pandemic risks condemning a significant number of students to an uncertain future.

TRAINING OF PRE-UNIVERSITY TEACHERS IN ORDER TO STREAMLINE THE TRANSITION PROCESS TO ONLINE ACTIVITIES

Author(s): Ioana-Daniela Ana (Toma) / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2022

The conduct of teaching activities in Romanian educational institutions was based until March 2020 almost exclusively on traditional learning methods, namely they were organized face to face in a classroom. The sudden outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic shook the world and forced the education system in all parts of the world to switch to online teaching overnight. The school environment has been reluctant to take over the changes in technology, often emphasizing the risks of using them compared to its benefits, but in the crisis the existence of technology facilitated the transition when the only option was to move entirely to to an online teaching-learning system. Teachers were given the opportunity to rethink the methods by which the instructive-educational processes were carried out and to find a balance between their traditional role and the new roles assigned through digitization. In order to achieve this balance, teachers need to be trained for today's education. This article aims to analyze the factors that determine an effective transition to online activities and to explain the need for an interdependence between specialized, pedagogical and technological knowledge in the context of teacher training for online teaching - learning activities.

Uncovering People Centred Design in the Context of Curriculum and Learning Design in Higher Education

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Exploring Design Thinking in the Context of Open and Distance Education at the Open University of Sudan

Author(s): Salha Mohammed Abdo / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2023

Design thinking is a human-centred approach used in various fields, including the context of education, where it can be a powerful tool for reimagining and improving the learning experience. Educators can use design thinking to understand students' unique learning needs, interests and aspirations and tailor their teaching methods to better engage, support and inspire them. This paper is a reflective exploration of human-centred design in the context of open and distance learning (Open University of Sudan) and is particularly linked to specific curriculum design opportunities. In recent times, design thinking has gained significant importance in Open and Distance Learning. Professionals have embraced this approach to immerse themselves in students' perspectives, to understand how they think and solve problems. By adopting an innovative and creative mindset, educators seek effective solutions that cater to the unique needs of distance learners, enhancing the overall learning experience. This paper aims to delve into the strategies employed in ODL to establish more robust student engagement in the educational process, with a specific emphasis on the utilisation of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Open and Distance Learning (ODL). The future of design thinking in education is brimming with immense potential. It offers a transformative force, instilling students with indispensable 21st-century skills such as creativity, innovation, problem-solving, and collaboration. Design thinking can empower students to become active agents of positive change, paving the way for a brighter and more promising tomorrow. It, therefore, becomes a powerful catalyst for shaping a world of endless possibilities.

Theoretically Rich Design Thinking: Blended Approaches for Educational Technology Workshops

Author(s): Howard Scott / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2023

This paper is a reflective account that outlines the design of two Continual Professional Development (CPD) workshop sessions based on a blend of theory for design thinking about aspects of curriculum, pedagogy and technology. The theoretical approach blended aspects of design-based research, speculative design, Activity Theory and subtractive change to address issues, barriers and explore opportunities in each workshop example that is presented. The first of these workshops brought university engineering lecturers together to explore the opportunities and barriers for integrating ‘co-creation’ as a pedagogical strategy to subject teaching alongside a new interface into their curriculum. The results show how design thinking exposes limitations and challenges that prevent the realisation of pedagogically rich interventions. The second workshop brought together post-compulsory vocational lecturers to a teacher education workshop and used the same theoretical reference points to inform and antagonise the implications that Large Language Models, such as Chat GPT, present to subject knowledge, curriculum design and modes of assessment. Here these theoretically rich forms are proposed for planning use in learning design and for reshaping curricula, where academics and other professionals supporting teaching and learning may want to introduce new technologies and integrate innovative pedagogical methods or confront new challenges to their work. They may also be used as continual professional development sessions in highly participatory, practical and creative ways that allow for lucid experimentation and to imbue professionals with agency and trust.

Оценка перспектив применения искусственного интеллекта в системе высшего образования

Author(s): Igor Sergeevich Ivanchenko / Language(s): Russian Issue: 4/2023

Introduction. The article deals with the problem of improving the quality of higher education in the context of its computerization. The purpose of the article is to describe the new structure of higher education, based on the principle of a neural network, as well as to identify the prospects of digital transformation for universities, when a wide range of administrative and educational functions might be performed by artificial intelligence. Materials and Methods. The study uses structural modeling in order to build a higher education system that functions as a neural network based on theoretical analysis and reviewing of scholarly literature on the methodology of teaching in high-ranking foreign universities. The author also employs the UTAUT (Unified theory of acceptance and use of technology) model to identify students’ attitudes towards the prospects for the introduction of artificial intelligence in higher education. Results. The paper proposes and describes a new intellectual structure of the higher education system. A distinctive feature of this structure is that employers should become the main evaluators of graduates’ education outcomes. Employers’ feedback is supposed to be provided for universities, adjusting the higher education system to continuously changing market requirements. The advantage of transforming the higher education system according to the principles of neural network functioning will bring a considerable increase in the quality of preparing top-level professionals, and therefore, real prospects for restructuring the national economy will be provided, when GDP growth is ensured not by increasing the amount of exporting raw materials, but by high-tech production. The results of students’ survey conducted and processed using the UTAUT model showed that the younger generation has a positive attitude towards the introduction of AI in the educational process: they are attracted by new prospects in obtaining knowledge and are not afraid of the risks associated with it. Conclusions. The paper concludes that Russian universities, by switching to the new model of higher education, based on a neural network, will be able to dramatically improve the quality of education and become world leaders in the field of preparing top-level professionals, as currently in foreign universities, artificial intelligence manages only a limited range of functions. A distinctive feature of the proposed model is complete digitalization and automation of all routine work at universities, decreasing methodological and reporting load for academic staff, as well as transferring the main teaching load from classrooms to laboratories for a deeper students’ involvement in research activities.

Türkiye’deki Devlet Okulu Öğretmenlerinin Pedagojik Dijital Beceri Yeterlilik Düzeyi

Author(s): Elif Polat,Yüksel Göktaş / Language(s): Turkish Issue: Spec. Iss./2023

The significance of teachers' pedagogical digital competency for teaching has rapidly expanded with the worldwide pandemic. This study compares public school teachers' pedagogical digital competencies (PDC) across many parameters. A self-assessment scale created through a project funded by the European Commission was utilized in the study. This scale measures four aspects of instructors' technology-enhanced teaching proficiency. 204 teachers from various branches who worked in Turkish provinces' public schools made up the participants. According to the survey, 42% of participants were proficient, and 35% were beginners. It was discovered that teachers of science courses had higher PDC than social and other topics teachers. Additionally, teachers who had attended in-service IT training either because it was obligatory or on their own will had significantly higher PDC than those who had not. The sub-dimensions of digital content use and production as well as digital communication and collaboration, had the participants' lowest scores.