TRANSFORMATION OF EDUCATION
How much did digitization actually help teachers to prepare children for the labor market?
Monday, September 25, 2023.
Digitization has provided teachers with tools and resources that have enabled them to effectively prepare students for the future, increasingly demanding, labor market. Schools have thus become modern environments for active learning and the development of digital competences
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When we think of education from some past times, we often first think of traditional methods of learning and teaching exclusively through textbooks, drawing with chalk on the school blackboard, teaching homework on paper, and the like. At that time, teachers were the main and only source of knowledge. However, the advancement of technology today has brought about major changes in the way new generations learn and prepare for the job market.
Digitization is changing the way of education
After the arrival of digitization, teachers had to adapt to new technologies. In order to provide the best education to their students, many have also received additional education in the use of computers, the Internet and various digital tools, thus acquiring digital competencies for the application of technology in teaching. Undoubtedly, the digitization of education has greatly changed the way of teaching in schools, both in the world and in Croatia.
Domagoj Pšeničnjak, principal of the "Antun Matijašević Karamaneo" High School on Vis, spent a large part of his working life in the private sector, more precisely in the management of a multinational company. From his own experience, he can confirm that the efficiency and quality of support that the school receives in the IT segment can be compared with the efficiency of private companies.
- Nowadays, all teachers use tools like online quizzes or MS Teams. The results after several years are exceptional. We have the bulletin board in the school exclusively as a channel in Teams, and simpler sessions of the Teaching Council are held online. As a school, we react faster, we are more ready for changes and the application of new teaching scenarios. Teachers have a wider range of possible ways of imparting knowledge and skills to students. We recognized the IT revolution as a means to achieve learning goals and outcomes - says director Pšeničnjak, whose school is one of 1,321 primary and secondary schools that joined the e-School project, in which more than 53,000 teachers and more than 450,000 male and female student.