HOW DO TEACHERS USE THE NEW COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES IN TEACHING ACTIVITY?
Keywords:
teachers, pre-primary education, teaching methods, new information technologiesAbstract
The research aimed to investigate the teaching activities in
terms of teaching resources used in teaching. The teaching
resources were dividing into two categories: classical
teaching resources and modern teaching resources belonging
to the new informational technologies. The research objective
concentrated on the investigation of teaching activities from
the perspective of two categories of teaching resources
(classic and modern teaching resources specific for a modern
techno-centric educational system). The results show that: 22
of the subjects (10.5%) choose to use a combination of
computer/ laptop – Internet, other 22 subjects (10.5%) choose
computer – software, combination and 33 subjects (15.2%)
choose computer-laptop – software-video projector – Internet
combination, than 14 subjects (6.4%) computer/ laptop –
software- internet and other 14 subjects (6.4%) vote for
computer –sites – Internet. Therefore on top positions of the
choosing list we find different combinations of teaching
resources belonging to the new communication technologies
(ITC). From 218 investigated subjects, 147 (67.3%) declare
they use teaching resources belonging to the new technologies
at least once a week. Of those, 21 subjects (9.6%) declare they
use modern technologies once a day, 58 subjects (26.6%) say
they use the ITC resources combinations once or even twice
per day and 68 subjects (31.2%) declare they use ITC
resources 1-2 times per week. Teachers were questioned if
they followed or not training classes of ITC (143 subjects
(65.69%) answered they followed ITC classes while the other
73 subjects (32.56%) declare they didn’t participate at any
ITC training).
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