Informational Technology in life-long Teacher’s EducationWe made a WEB portal for on-line...
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Informational Technology in life-long Teacher’s Education
DANIMIR MANDIC
Informatics and didactic
University of Belgrade
Kraljice Natalije 43
SERBIA
IVICA RADOVANOVIC
Informatics and didactic
University of Belgrade
Kraljice Natalije 43
SERBIA
SEFEDIN SEHOVIC
Informatics and didactic
University of Belgrade
Kraljice Natalije 43
SERBIA
[email protected] http://www.uf.bg.ac.rs
Abstract: - Development of information technology and constantly innovating educational technology
causes changes in the planning, implementation and organization of teaching. Education, as a rule, slowly
opens the new technologies in relation to production, transport, services. et al. However, young people at
home and out of school live in a technologically rich environment and they expecte changes in education
in accordance with the imperatives of education for 21 century. Permanent teacher’s education in the area
of new technologies becomes necessary. We made a WEB portal for on-line permanent education and
teacher’s experience with the materials are excellent.
Key-Words: - Informational Technology, WEB portal, Education, On-line learning,, Teaching., Distance education
1 Introduction Educational technology is constantly changing and
improving in line with the development of science
and information technology. Traditional teaching
is most often criticized for insufficient activity of
students, inadequate teaching intuition and
dynamism, the impossibility of individualisation
of teaching, lack of continuous feedback on the
achievements of students and others. Intensive
development of telecommunications technology
and computer systems, permanent connection to
the Internet and WEB based learning systems
enabled better use of computer technology in
teaching. Computer based classes provide flexible
organization of activities, lectures and study
materials and a complex evaluation of students.
Teaching is often formalized, verbalized and not
sufficiently visual, reducing knowledge durability
as well as possibility of connecting theory with
real life. Multimedia programmes created for
personal computers offer possibility for making
electronic text books involving text, pictures,
sounds, animations and films, in such a way that
learners can individually proceed in learning
teaching contents, they can return to contents
which are not clear enough to them, they can
receive feedback and additional information in
accordance with their own capabilities and
interests. Interactivity and quality of presented
materials, using multimedia and hypertext, offer
considerably richer contents compared with
teaching carried out in traditional classroom. [5]
2. WEB portal In the last two years we created a Web portal for
the planning, implementation and optimal
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organization of teaching and on-line permanent
education. Portal, also, contains materials for
directors and professional associates in order to
facilitate the planning and implementation of their
activities. Portal is located at www.edu-soft.rs
Educational value of didactic media could be
reduced to the conditional proven fact: didactic
media allow faster and better realization of the
objectives and tasks of education, they are an
important prerequisite for modernization and
acceleration methods and forms of teaching, an
important factor for the alignment of teaching with
life, theory with the practice and teaching content
customization features, prior knowledge, needs
and interests of young people and adults, their
important functions in engaging multiple senses,
encouraging and maintaining the attention of
students, develop curiosity and desire for learning,
for active participation in the educational process
and its development.[7] Didactic media can
actively involve students in the process of
preparing, teaching and evaluation of realization.
Didactic media allow individual work of students,
transfer of knowledge and its application in the
work and mastering the techniques of self-
education; important presumption that equitable
engagement of cognitive, emotional and conative
power of personality in teaching and learning, they
are important factor in directing student’s
activities insight stimulate learning, problem
solving and creative activities. In Figure 1 is
shown WEB portal which contains teaching
resources for preparing and teaching in elementary
school. Materials are structured by teaching
subjects in accordance with the objectives and
tasks of the Ministry of Education in Serbia. Portal
contains methodological guidelines, preparing
drafts, worksheets, multimedia and many other
useful materials for teachers, principals and
professional associates. [4]
Fig. 1 WEB portal
Didactic media were created as a result of many
years of studying the essence of their pedagogical
and practical efficiency, and some of them have
applied for years in our schools and have proved
their undeniable value. This gives us the basis for
the claim that it is professionally produced,
diligently selected and skillfully applied, affect the
teaching organizational, contents, methodology
and results. It gives raise to a higher level of
quality, happy teachers and students, and it
realized what was effectively planned goals and
tasks of education in all types of elementary,
middle, and senior high schools. [1]
Basic principles of which starts the process of
implementation of didactic media and use sources
of knowledge can be classified in several
categories of which, it seems, most notably the
following:
a. Applying a means of teaching or the use of
sources of knowledge does not exclude the use of
other means and sources.
b. Some sources of knowledge or didactic media
are more suitable than the others for student
understanding of specific instructional materials or
teaching subjects.
c. Didactic media and sources of knowledge
should be used as an integral part of teaching and
learning.
d. Diligently preparing didactic media (prepared
by the teacher and students) is essential for their
proper and effective use in teaching and learning.
e. Students should be aware of the specific
purpose of teaching resources and feel responsible
to provide a specific time and use in the teaching
process and learning process.
f. Teacher correct use of teaching resources and
students' active monitoring of content is present,
h. Didactic media and sources of knowledge are
used to improve the quality of communication
between teachers and students.
i. Didactic media may have a competitive
advantage gained experience as they are able to
provide information that will be corrected by
experience, modify the time, convincingly given
the dimension of space, show details of processes
and phenomena. All that is important to
understand these phenomena and acquiring quality
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knowledge .
J. Materials prepared for teaching and learning
resources are effective if you contribute to the
improvement of learning to the extent that students
understand the connections and relationships
between objects and phenomena of the real world.
k. Didactic teaching medium serves the purpose if
it allows the realization of the objectives of
teaching as well as any other source material.
m. Any didactic power of the media is strong as
much as pedagogical knowledge of teachers who
use it.
In the above portal Edusoft we can choose
materials for teachers:
Fig. 2 Teacher’s materials
Portal contains materials for planning and
teaching, evaluating student work, creative ideas
and examples of teaching practice. In addition to
methodological guidance portal contains a large
number of sketches for preparing classes,
instructions, multimedia presentations and
working papers which are, so far, not published in
the print media. In the menu Directors there are
materials that enable efficient management of
school based on the quality of planning services.
Fig. 3 Portal for directors
In accordance with the director’s functions there
are more than 150 documents: models of the
annual program of work, analytical and planning
documentation, instructional program of the
School Council, examples of monthly, operational
plans of the school etc.
Materials are structured according to the director’s
functions.
3. On-line permanent education
In the on-line seminars there are materials that we
provided for teacher training, permanent education
for managers and professional staff in schools and
the courses are accredited by the Institute for the
Advancement of Education in Serbia.
Fig. 4 On-line courses
The aim of our activity is focused on expanding
the knowledge of participants of the seminar on
the importance of pedagogical possibilities of
implementing new information technology for
innovation, enrichment and improvement work in
primary and secondary schools. Development of
information technology is significantly opposed
paradigms Komensky and traditional ways of
education students, and the Edusoft ensured
through 3 accredited seminars access to prior
knowledge in the field of educational information
technologies.
The first module is prepared for the raising the
technical capability of participants to work on
their computers and the other contemporary
didactic equipment. The main goal is
understanding and practical use of 4 elementary
areas: hardware, Windows operating system, basic
package of user programs and the global network -
Internet.
Second module deals with a innovation knowledge
and skills of participants in the educational
programs. The intention is therefore that the
existing informatics tools could be properly
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applied in the planning, implementation,
evaluation and innovation in order to raise
teaching quality and effectiveness of educational
work in schools.
Third module was made to release the creative
beings in the personality of teachers, through the
creation of various educational resources designed
for educational work. It is therefore the creation of
a new climate in which they can take the
maximum advantage of new information
technologies in their work.
In the first module we prepared topics: that users
can lead to:
• Understanding the structure of information
system
•Eelementary concepts: hardware, software,
networks, Internet and existing services,
• Work with the basic Windows user environment,
• Creating and developing the resources needed for
planning and evaluation of the school work.
Analyzing the dissimilarity in the knowledge of
teachers we predicted on-line initial test, which
candidates can test their knowledge so that they
can chose one of the following modules.
Fig. 5 Tests for self-evaluation
Module 1 receives materials for learning and
practicing.
Fig. 6 Motherboard unit
In the hardware resources we described the funct-
ions of computer components, so that teachers can
understand the concept of modern computers. It is
written in understandable language with a large
number of images and presentations.
We provided several tests for self-evaluation,
similar to the initial test.
The second module is created for users who have
basic computer knowledge, to improve existing
pedagogical knowledge about:
• pedagogical effects of the application of new
technologies in the educational process of
students,
• the role, importance and types of new didactic
media.
• multimedia systems, educational software,
electronic classrooms, educational portals.
• acquire practical search and using didactic media
archived on your computer, removable drives,
Internet.
• understand the importance and role of new media
works: the innovation of teaching, promotion and
attainment of their own, deepening cooperation
with parents throughout the community.
The third module is prepared for more advanced
users who have basic computer knowledge, apply
online or have used different media. The third
module offers the possibility of didactic modeling
and shaping the content through new technologies,
emphasizing creativity and creativity of our
teachers. This third module is aimed primarily to
initiate creativity and creative teaching lessons
that will make it different from existing, dynamic
and more interesting for students. Topics that are
planned include a few key things:
• innovative teaching models supported by new
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technologies
• introduction to the process of didactic modeling
resources needed for planning, implementation,
evaluation of teaching
• structuring, creation and production of didactic
materials using various sources of information
• Detailed analysis of all the products group of
participants (made during the workshop)
• integration of resources created in the process of
planning, implementation and evaluation of
knowledge
• Presentation of results of work in bilingual
Edusoft on-line journals
All content can be viewed on the portal www.edu-
soft.rs
4 Conclusion
It is necessary to bear in mind the fact that the
media are not didactic omnipotent, that it can
solve all problems of modern teaching. They are a
consequence of inadequate position of educators
and education in society, a relatively modest
investment in raising quality of teaching and still
present weaknesses in the education of teachers.
We can say with sufficient grounds that
pedagogical power of media and sources of
knowledge could be strong as much as the
knowledge, pedagogical education and
commitment of teachers. There are a lot of courses
for teacher’s permanent education.
Dominantly teaching role is replaced by the role of
strategist, organizer and adviser. Constant
interaction between learner and source of
information ensures self-evaluation and constant
following of all learners activities in order to
evaluate learners work in a more complex way.
Information era education, by application of new
technologies, also requires changes in work
organization, teaching ways and methods to
overcome disadvantages of traditional teaching
and raise educational process to a higher, better
quality level. We prepared on-line courses in the
area of educational technology to help teachers in
adequate using new technology. Results are, so
far, very good and teachers are satisfied with the
results of applying new technologies in their work.
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