Development of digital competencies of primary school teachers through building knowledge and skills for working with visual programming environment within math project work

Rumyana Karadimitrova,Rumyana Papancheva

doi:10.5937/jouproman5-14495

Abstract

The paper presents a review of the contemporary school, the digital generation and the need of teachers equipped with new knowledge and skills, in particular - basic programming skills. The last change of educational system in Bulgaria after the adoption of the new pre-school and general school education act is analysed. New primary school curricula and new standards for teacher’s qualification were implemented. The new school subject “Computer modelling” is presented. Some experience of the authors from project-based work in mathematics with teachers and students is described. The aim is the formation of skills of programming by working within Scratch - visual environment for block-based coding. Some conclusions and ideas for future work are formulated.

Highlights

As early as the 19th and early 20th centuries, Dewey talk about the “new” school
The difference between traditional and the new school comes from the different attitude to thinking and the role of thinking into the learning process
According Dewey, the traditional school consider thinking as an incident into the process of learning, instead considering knowledge as an incident into the process of development of thinking

Summary

Introduction

As early as the 19th and early 20th centuries, Dewey talk about the “new” school. Most of ideas and positions of those days are relevant today. Actual and today, is the school should be seen as part of the child's life, not as a preparation for his/her life in the future In his Pedagogic Creed, Dewey, says: „It conceives the school as a place where certain information is to be given, where certain lessons are to be learned, or where certain habits are to be formed. The value of these is conceived as lying largely in the remote future; the child must do these things for the sake of something else he is to do; they are mere preparation. Topics with actuality on a personal, regional, national and global human level should be studied, and the students should be placed in an active research position

The New Dynamic Classroom

The educational reform in Bulgaria

Experimental work

Knowledge about conditional operators to be formed

Findings

PERSPECTIVES