Syllabus
The course focuses on:1) teaching approaches to using digital technology to process and visualize data and information.2) the role of reading, visual and mathematical literacy and creative activities in the use of digital technologies to present data, information and process imaging.3) designing teaching approaches, how to use digital tools to develop pupils' computational thinking, display and read algorithmic procedures.
Themes: 1. Digital technology as a tool for visualising information in computer-focused subjects.2. Digital technology as a tool for solving various types of problems in computer-focused subjects. 3. Digital technology as a tool for creative activities in computer-focused subjects.
Annotation
Digital technology play an important role in visual literacy development. Man acquires a huge number of information in a visual form. Research shows that users of digital technology do not read in the traditial sense of reading otherwise. Can pupils read information from digital visual resourses? How to teach pupils to read information from such sources? Digital publishing places great emphasis on the information being structured, multimedia, interactive, dynamic and consisted of visual elements. Can pupils create comprehensible digital materials, can they present facts, processes, and conclusions in a visually comprehensible form using digital tools? Visual literacy is important also for computational thinking development. How to shape the pupils' skill to break the problem into logically arranged subframes, organize them into structures, and visualize them in the form of algorithmic schemes?
For one thing, a ICT teacher should be able to create and use materials in graphical, visual form, and for another should teach pupils to read information from visual materials and develop their ability to record in visual form.
The course focuses on: 1) teaching approaches to using digital technology to process and visualize data and information. 2) the role of reading, visual and mathematical literacy and creative activities in the use of digital technologies to present data, information and process imaging. 3) designing teaching approaches, how to use digital tools to develop pupils' computational thinking, display and read algorithmic procedures.