Biology students' teacher opinions about the integration of ICT into the learning and teaching process

Abstract

Biology laboratory work can be performed in various ways, even using information and communication technologies (ICT). Whether a teacher incorporates it into laboratory work is related to different factors, but educators can influence students’ beliefs about the value of ICT through their pedagogical practice. In our study, student teachers of biology gave opinions on how successfully university professors use ICT in the classroom, where they acquired most knowledge about ICT and their attitude towards using of ICT in laboratory work. Student teachers were critical about the knowledge and usage of ICT of university professors in class. During their student teachers mostly failed to acquire knowledge about ICT and practice in incorporating it into daily routines. These results will be presented to our university professors, at which time we will suggest how they could use ICT more effectively in daily practice because, on the one hand, they are responsible for students teacher attitudes and for the level of student teacher knowledge, while, on the others, they precipitate indirectly in forming the pupils’ attitudes and determining the level of the pupils’ knowledge of ICT. The study was done on 85 student teachers of biology. Attitudes toward ICT are statistically significant by gender.

Keywords

vzgoja in izobraževanje;informacijsko-komunikacijska tehnologija;IKT;študije po spolu;education;information and communication technology;ICT;gender studies;

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Language:	English
Year of publishing:	2014
Typology:	1.01 - Original Scientific Article
Organization:	UM FNM - Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
UDC:	37.091.3:57/59
COBISS:	20604168
ISSN:	1855-0541
Parent publication:	Innovative issues and approaches in social sciences
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Secondary language:	Slovenian
Secondary keywords:	Laboratorijske vaje;Biologija;Informacijsko-komunikacijska tehnologija;Učitelji;Študije primerov;
URN:	URN:SI:UM:
Type (COBISS):	Article
Pages:	str. 121-134
Volume:	ǂVol. ǂ7
Issue:	ǂno. ǂ2
Chronology:	2014
DOI:	10.12959/issn.1855-0541.IIASS-2014-no2-art08
ID:	10847119