MEGATRENDS AND MEDIA

TRANSFORMATION OF THE MEDIA GARDEN
of students and how will it change the way of teaching and preparation
at home? 17 By a multi media processing of the educational content and
other technologies the quality and speed of knowledge acquisition
increase and student changes roles – from a passive listener role to the
role of an active participant in teaching process. EDULAB offers options
to schools how to create a motivating environment for creative work of
teachers and students by using modern information and communication
technologies. 18
In the experimental group of pupils (total of 103 students with an
average age of 12, 8) which had the chance to test the use of tablets and
touch technology in the classroom, following data have been identiied:
– 40 % have been using digital technologies since the pre-school age,
– 55 % of students started using a computer already at the irst grade of
primary school,
– 74% of them have a computer and a mobile phone with the Internet
access and every student has at least one of the above mentioned
devices at home,
– 100 students would like to continue learning with the help of tablets,
– 98 out of 103 students would welcome the use of tablets in all subjects.
In the context of digitalization of educational process, the Slovak
government plans to equip primary schools with additional 20 000
tablets and 4 000 interactive whiteboards during 2015.
4 Design of a mobile app for the needs of media education
New technologies used in the educational process appear to be a big
step forward in modernization of the teaching process. The development
of mobile apps designed for this purpose is, however, only in its early
stages. The use of already existing apps is limited by the language in
which they are designed. For this reason, we plan to design a mobile app
designed for the students of primary schools in Slovakia as a tool to be
used in media education lectures.
17 Projekt Škola na dotyk. [online]. [2015-02-15]. Available at: < http://www.
skolanadotyk.sk/o-projekte.html>.
18 EDULAB [online]. [2015-02-04]. Available at: .
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