Syllabus
1. DIDACTICS OF ICT AND ITS MATTER OF STUDYMain topics and goals of didactics of ICT, its concept and importance for teaching. Iformatics, information and ICT education as an integral component of general ant its position in educational system.2. INFORMATICS, ICT AND INFORMATION EDUCATION IN A CURRICULUM FOR PRIMARY AND SENODARY SCHOOL EDUCATION3. REPRESENTATIVE TEACHING METHODS AVAILABLE FOR INFORMATION, INFORMATICS AND ICT EDUCATION4. CONSTRUCTIVIST APPROACHES TO INFORMATION, INFORMATICS AND ICT EDUCATIONMain ideas of Piaget’s constructivism, Papert‘ s constructionism and logo culture and approaches5. TAXONOMY OF ASSIGNMENTS FOR INFORMATION, INFORMATICS AND ICT EDUCATION
6. MAIN CHARACTERISTICS AND CRITERIAS FOR ANALYSIS AND EVALUTION OF TEXTBOOKS FOR INFORMATION, INFORMATICS AND ICT EDUCATION
Annotation
The course struggles to provide the theoretical basis of information didactics focused on foundations, needs and specifics of ICT education and on putting into practice of educational goals of information education in primary and secondary schools. It introduces a concept of information education, analyses a role and importance of ICT and information education in curriculum for primary and secondary schools.
A great attention is given to explanaition of principles of Piaget‘s constructivism and Papert‘s constructionism in a context of information education. The course encourages teacher’s didactics thinking development to be able to achieve objectives of information and ICT education in school practice.
It follows fundamental pedagogy-psychological branches, applies and develops its findings in information education. It put emphasis on system understanding of instruction; it clarifies application and integration approach and interpretation of information education based on ICT. A theory of learning assignment taxonomy and analysis of texbooks for Informatics and ICT education forms an integral part of this course.