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Education and new challenges website (9 375 000 users in January 2011) – an encyclopaedia created by volunteers which is commonly used as a source of information by school and university students. The studies carried out by Mariusz Jędrzejko show that 54% of students at public institutions and 72% of students at non-public institutions admitted using Wikipedia as the main source of information when working on their bachelor’s and master’s theses. 49 Table 4.4. Computer equipment and Internet access in schools (2008/2009) Total Cities Countryside ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS Number of computer classrooms per 1 school 1.05 1.29 0.96 Total number of computers (for students) per 1 school 16 21 14 Number of computers with broadband Internet per 1 school 8 13 5 LOWER-SECONDARY SCHOOLS Number of computer classrooms per 1 school 1.06 1.24 0.90 Total number of computers (for students) per 1 school 17 20 15 Number of computers with broadband Internet per 1 school 11 14 8 Source: Study by J. Domalewski based on the Central Statistical Office (GUS) data 2008/2009. Fig. 4.34. Level of digital literacy of young people aged 16-24 (2008) 10% High Medium Low 80% 60% 40% 20% 0% SI LU AT PT ES HU NO EE FR DK IS FI DE LT NL MT UK EU 27 CZ IT SE BE CY SK EL LV PL IE BG RO Source: Own study based on Eurostat, Community survey on ICT usage households and by individuals, [after] Youth in Europe..., p. 148. Due to the rather mediocre level of computer equipment in schools and homes high software costs and the level of computer science classes, young people in Poland go rather poorly in the surveys of computer literacy compared to young people in other European countries. In a three-level assessment, 33% of young people represent high 49 Internet Standard. Megapanel January 2011 – thematic website, URL. http://www.internetstandard.pl/news/368513_2/Megapanel.styczen.2011.serwisy.tematyczne.html http://www.rp.pl/artykul/449751.html 126
Education and new challenges level skills, 39% medium level, and 19% low level (Fig. 4.34) 50 . Similar picture emerges from the results of the “Study for Assessment Criteria for Media Literacy Levels” – Polish young people have media competences at a level lower than the European average. With an average of 70%, Poland comes six from the last ranking position in the EU-27. Fig. 4.35. Internet literacy – young people in the selected EU countries (2008) 100% Browser literacy Sending e-mails with attachments Chat literacy Participation in social websites Talking via Internet Creating one’s own webpage 80% 60% 40% 20% 0% FI IS DK DE LT LU FR ES EE PL EU-27 HU UK MT CZ RO Source: Own study based on Eurostat, Community survey on ICT usage households and by individuals, [after] Youth in Europe..., p. 149. On the other hand, Internet has become an element of everyday life for Polish young people as it did in the Western countries, and using Internet browsers is the most common activity (Fig. 4.35). In Poland, similarly to the North-West Europe, this skill is represented by 90% of young people aged 16-24. Fig. 4.36. Frequency of using Internet for various activities by age groups 100% Posting messages or comments on other people’s blogs Posting graphics or pictures on websites Commenting other people’s blogs Sending audio/video files Writing a blog 80% 60% 40% 20% 0% Age: 15-19 Age: 20-24 Age: 25-29 Age: 30-39 Age: 40-49 Age: 50-59 Age: 60+ Source: World Internet Project 2010 – Poland. Such high indicators suggest that in each case young people considerably more often undertake a given type of communication via Internet than older people 50 The skills include: 1) copying and moving files and directories, 2) copying, duplicating and transferring information within a document, 3) using basic arithmetic calculations in spreadsheets, 4) compressing files, 5) connecting and installing peripheral equipment, such as a printer or modem, 6) writing computer programmes. Low level refers to 1 or 2 types of skills. Medium level refers to 3 or 4 skills. High level refers to all the skills listed above. The levels reflect the number of skills selected for the Eurostat survey. 127
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