Bioinformatics at grammar schools, view of pre-service teachers

Abstrakt

Like in other sciences, the amount of data available in biology has grown largely. Scientists use bioinformatical approaches to process the data like DNA sequences.

The research use of bioinformatics is not reflected in teaching biology at Czech schools. Therefore, a practical course using bioinfomatics was designed and tested.

Pre-service teachers who took part in testing also gave their feed-back. The tasks were evaluated as beneficial and bringing new information and skills.

The pre-service teachers saw the possible use of the tasks at upper secondary schools as ambivalent.

Klíčová slova

• Bioinformatics
• teaching biology
• information and communication technologies
• pre-service teacher education