Information and Communication Technologies in the Basic School Reality

Autor	Mgr. Markéta Černá
Organisation	Pedagogická Fakulta, Univerzita Karlova
Year	2010
Research type	Ph.D. thesis
Annotation	In its document Learning to Change: ICT in Schools published in 2001, the OECD considered information and communication technologies as one of the means to improve the quality and effectiveness of the education process. ICT could truly be one of the means to improve the quality and effectiveness of the education process, but only provided that we manage to define and use all positive aspects which they offer and eliminate, to the largest degree possible, all negative aspects which may occur when using them. The theoretical part of the thesis deals with the determinants influencing the implementation of ICT into education in the second stage of basic schools, particularly the state information policy in education, implementation of ICT into curriculum documents, approach of schools to computer technologies etc. The theoretical part is supplemented with the empirical research which was conducted in four basic schools within the KutnáHora district, the Central Bohemian region. The questionnaire research focused on the opinion of basic school participants concerning both negative and positive aspects of using ICT in teaching, with the aim of finding, using their responses, a model way to use ICT within the school reality. The research also reflected one of the most significant present phenomena – a boom of social networks and possible danger that it encompasses.
Keywords	Information and communication technologies, second stage of elementary schools, pupils, education, risks, implementation of ICT into education process, curriculum documents
Research type	quantitative
Start date	1. 10. 2007
End date	29. 6. 2010
Obor	AM Pedagogy, education
Note	supervisor: prof. PhDr. Eliška Walterová, CSc. Oponents: Ing. Irena Fialová, CSc. , Mgr. Jiří Zounek, Ph.D.
Email	ludmila.houbova@pedf.cuni.cz
Availability	available in the NRVDM electronic library
Research location	Pedagogická Fakulta, Univerzita Karlova , M.D. Rettigové 4, Praha 1 11639
Organisation	Pedagogická Fakulta, Univerzita Karlova
Possible connection	Number of children and young people in institutional and protective education facilities Numbers of pupils and student Pre-school education - number of schools, classes, children Individuals using the Internet in education Participation of Children in Pre-school Education