Abstract
The exponential development of learning environments supported by information and communication technology (ICT), coupled with new insights from the fields of cognitive and neuroscience and artificial intelligence (AI), is a huge challenge for both the educational system and youths and their social competences. This article defines the impact of an effective use of contemporary education technologies on young people’s engagement and their interest in collaborating with their peers and teachers on the level of interpersonal relationships. It investigates the teachers’ and parents’ perspective on youth and their cooperation when using ICT in the pedagogical process. The study confirms that innovative didactic approaches to teaching, supported by ICT, exert a positive influence on the collaboration between students, as well as between students and their teachers, and that youths, teachers and parents are all equally aware of that. Parents and teachers have a unified position in support of the idea that an effective use of ICT makes a positive contribution to collaboration between students, and thereby directly affects an increase in their social competences. ICT is becoming one of the important variables that affect the development of young people’s social competences. The 2-year study was conducted in the framework of a national project.
Highlights
One of the problems of contemporary society is that the educational system must be able to train youths for life, equipping them with knowledge and different skills, but in particular teaching them how to confront everyday challenges and problems, and, in turn, how to resolve them
Main research questions are as follows: How can we increase the students’ social skills, their social awareness, their emotional intelligence and their social competences when we introduce individualisation, personalisation and differentiation in teaching/ learning process? And can we increase social competences by using information and communication technology (ICT)?
Important is that preliminary results again show that effective use of ICT in classes has a positive impact on collaboration and communication between students themselves, as well as between students and teachers
Summary
One of the problems of contemporary society is that the educational system must be able to train youths for life, equipping them with knowledge and different skills, but in particular teaching them how to confront everyday challenges and problems, and, in turn, how to resolve them. The complexity of all the things affecting the youth of today (the environment, technology, a large amount of immediately accessible information, Technology (ALT), a UK-based professional and scholarly society and membership organisation.
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