TITLE: Acquiring Vocabulary by Means of Smartboard AUTHOR: Mgr. Zdeňka Španingerová DEPARTMENT: Department of German Studies SUPERVISOR: PhDr. Pavla Nečasová, Ph.D. ABSTRACT: This PhD thesis deals with researching the efficiency of interactive whiteboards in foreign language teaching. The objective was to verify the hypothesis that the interactive whiteboard is an effective tool and means in the process of acquiring German vocabulary. Chapters I to IV draw upon available secondary literature, whilst part V is concerned with the applied research. Vocabulary uptake efficiency was tested on three teaching modules by contrasting an experimental group and a control. The experimental group was taught by means of an interactive whiteboard, whereas the control group was not. The methodology of the research is based on the above mentioned experiment, interviews with the pupils, a test of individual learning styles and observation of all lessons (based on video recordings). The results of the research suggest that interactive elements in German language teaching make the acquisition of vocabulary more successful. Moreover, the efficiency might be higher throughimplementation of the interactive whiteboard. Regarding the small sample of students the problem outlined in this work deserves more extensive research....

I och med den pågående digitaliseringen i dagens samhälle som vi även ser i skolans verksamhet är det av stort intresse att undersöka dess påverkan i klassrummet. Syftet med föreliggande studie var att undersöka lärares användning och uppfattning av interaktiv skrivtavla i matematikundervisningen. Vidare undersöktes även lärares uppfattning av sin digitala kompetens. För att uppfylla studiens syfte genomfördes åtta kvalitativa intervjuer med lärare från fyra olika skolor verksamma i årskurs f-6. Studiens resultat visade att samtliga lärare hade en positiv inställning till användandet av interaktiv skrivtavla i matematikundervisningen. Lärarna använde tavlan främst i genomgångar där de hade en uppfattning av att den interaktiva skrivtavlan tydliggjorde, strukturerade samt anpassade undervisningen. Lärarnas huvudsakliga syfte till användningen av interaktiv skrivtavla var att skapa engagemang hos eleverna. En ytterligare slutsats av studiens resultat är att den digitala kompetensen hos lärarna är av stor vikt för att den interaktiva skrivtavlan ska användas på ett så effektivt sätt som möjligt. Vidare visade studiens resultat att varken generell eller ämnesspecifik utbildning inom den interaktiva skrivtavlan var vanligt förkommande. Lärarna uttryckte däremot önskan om att erhålla utbildning. Avslutningsvis visade studiens resultat att lärarens egenintresse och prioritering av tid var avgörande i användandet av interaktiv skrivtavla. Sammanfattningsvis indikerar detta på att utbildning inom IST både är önskvärt samt nödvändigt för att tavlan ska användas på ett effektivt sätt i matematikundervisningen. / With the ongoing digitization in today's society, which we also see in school operations, it is of great interest to examine its impact in the classroom. The aim of the present study was to investigate teachers' use and perception of interactive whiteboards in mathematics teaching. Furthermore, teachers' perception of their digital competence was also investigated. To fulfill the purpose of the study, eight qualitative interviews were conducted with teachers from four different schools active in grades f-6. The results of the study showed that all teachers had a positive attitude towards the use of interactive whiteboards in mathematics teaching. The teachers used the board mainly in briefings where they had a perception that interactive whiteboards clarified, structured, and adapted the teaching. The teachers' main purpose for using the interactive whiteboard was to create engagement among the students. A further conclusion of the study's results is that the digital competence of the teachers is of great importance for interactive whiteboards to be used as efficiently as possible. Furthermore, the results of the study showed that neither general nor subject-specific training within the interactive whiteboards was common. The teachers, on the other hand, expressed the desire to receive education. In conclusion, the results of the study showed that the teacher's self-interest and prioritization of time were decisive in the use of interactive whiteboards. In summary, this indicates that education within the interactive whiteboard is both desirable and necessary for the it to be used effectively in mathematics teaching.

His master's thesis I've divided into three parts, theoretical, practical and empirical. The theoretical part deals with the teaching of geography, educational technology and teaching aids, museum pedagogy, individual educational specificities of schools and museums and how should cooperation look like, what role in it plays the personality of the museum educator and what it is for a school and a museum benefit. And last but not least the literature, which is in my opinion an important element in the teaching of geography. In the practical part, I have described a realization of a project in which it is used didactic technology, a collaboration with the museum and work with literature. The empirical part is focused on research in basic schools in the field of educational technology. The key concepts on which the research is based, such as: modern didactic techniques, working with modern educational technology, the perception of educational technology as a means to the realization of the teaching.

The diploma thesis "M-technologies in education and in the management of Primary schools in the Moravian-Silesian region" deals with modern technologies in the context of education and in the context of school management. The theoretical part summarizes the basic theoretical information about m-technologies and other modern technologies which then comes the part of research of the thesis which is focused on facilities and use of modern technologies ICT in education and in the management of Primary schools in the Moravian-Silesian region. Questionnaire results and research about using modern technologies in education and in school management are the focus of the practical part. The thesis deals with level of implementation and use of m-technologies and other modern technologies in primary schools. KEYWORDS: information and communication technologies; m-technologies; tablet; smartphone; eReader; interactive whiteboard; dataprojector; data box; information system

The diploma thesis deals with detailed look at the project Education 21 and so the teaching using new technologies, especially interactive whiteboards and netbooks, in Czech schools. The objective was observation of teaching mathematics, methods of using interactive whiteboards and netbooks in mathematics lessons at secondary schools participating project Education 21. Evaluation and conclusions are based on analyzes of lessons recorded in the academic year 2009/2010 and 2010/2011, which were investigated and further divided into shorter stories in case that interactive whiteboard or netbook was used in some way. I watched purpose and the way of use of interactive whiteboard or netbook in the episodes, then the material which this technology was used with the aid of and who worked with interactive whiteboard. Some episodes can serve as an example of "good" or interesting way of working with the IWB and NTB in mathematics lessons, or they can be an inspiration for other mathematics teachers but also teachers of other subjects. Keywords: interactive whiteboard (IWB), netbook (NTB), interactive textbook - e- books, applet, mathematics, Education 21, smart notebook, videos.

L’objectif de cette thèse est d’étudier l’effet d’un entraînement explicite de la conscience phonémique (CP) en anglais L2 et les apports potentiels du tableau blanc interactif (TBI) comme instrument permettant de réaliser cet entraînement avec des apprenants de CE1. A partir des travaux de pédagogues tels que Borel-Maisonny et Caleb Gattegno, nous avons conçu des aides multimodales qui sont à la fois visuelles, sonores et kinesthésiques. Les couleurs de l’approche Gattegno ont été reprises pour créer des cartes de couleur auxquelles nous avons joint une représentation sonore du phonème. La carte sonore est également manipulable sur le TBI. En ce sens, la manipulation sur TBI pourrait aider la manipulation mentale des éléments. Les représentations des phonèmes constituent des représentations externes multimodales intégrées (REMI). Ces REMI ont été intégrées à un dispositif d’apprentissage permettant de valider les hypothèses de recherche. Il s’agissait non seulement d’évaluer l’efficacité de tâches explicites de conscience phonémique dans le cadre de l’apprentissage de l’anglais, mais également d’évaluer l’efficacité de l’utilisation du TBI pour réaliser les tâches de conscience phonémique. Ces hypothèses de recherche ont été testées à l’aide de trois groupes d’apprenants : deux groupes expérimentaux et un groupe contrôle. Un groupe a effectué des tâches explicites de conscience phonémique avec les REMI sur TBI (groupe ConsPhonoTBI), un groupe a effectué ces mêmes tâches de manière classique, c’est-à-dire mentalement sans aide multimodale (groupe ConsPhono), tandis que le groupe contrôle a fait des activités de vocabulaire anglais. La comparaison du groupe contrôle avec le groupe ConsPhono permet de déterminer l’effet d’un entraînement explicite de la conscience phonémique, tandis que la comparaison du groupe ConsPhono avec le groupe ConsPhonoTBI permet de déterminer l’effet des aides multimodales et de leur utilisation sur TBI dans le cadre de cet entraînement explicite. Cette recherche a pour objet une intervention dans le domaine du travail puisque les enseignants et les apprenants sont considérés comme étant en situation de travail. Cette recherche s’inscrit alors dans le cadre de l’ergonomie cognitive. En l’occurrence, la quasi-expérimentation a été menée en 2011-2012 auprès d’apprenants issus de classes de CE1 situées dans l’Isère. Dans la méthodologie de recherche mixte adoptée, les données qualitatives et quantitatives ont été triangulées et permettent d’obtenir des résultats ayant une validité interne. L’étude indique que le travail explicite de la conscience phonémique a un effet sur le niveau atteint dans ce domaine et que l’utilisation des REMI sur TBI permet d’atteindre un meilleur niveau dans le même laps de temps. Par ailleurs, cette étude indique que l’utilisation du TBI pour mener cet entraînement explicite permet à des enseignants non-spécialistes en langue de se décentrer pour réguler l’activité, de proposer une prononciation correcte aux élèves, renforçant ainsi le sentiment d’auto-efficacité au sens de Bandura (2003). En outre, le TBI favorise les échanges entre les apprenants au niveau du groupe classe et permet une découverte collective des phonèmes anglais. / This thesis seeks to study the effect of an explicit training of phonemic awareness (PA) in English L2 and the possible contribution of an Interactive Whiteboard (IWB) as a tool to carry such a training with 7-8 year old learners (in CE1 in France). Based on the work of some educators like Borel-Maisonny and Caleb Gattegno, we created some multimodal materials which are visual, sound and kinesthetic. We used the colors from Gattegno’s approach to create cards to which we attached the sound representation of each phoneme. These cards could also be moved on the IWB. Hence, the manipulation done on the IWB might help the mental manipulation that the learner should normally do mentally. The full representation for each phoneme is an external multimodal integrated representation (EMIR). These EMIR were used among a learning scenario which aimed to test research hypotheses. First of all, the aim was to know whether explicit tasks of phonemic awareness were useful or not. Then, the aim was to check the effect, in any, of the IWB in such a learning scenario concerning phonemic awareness. These research hypotheses have been tested thanks to three groups: two experimental groups and one control group. One group carried out the activities of phonemic awareness with EMIR on an IWB (PA-IWB group), one group carried out the same activities but on a traditional way, that-is-to-say mentally with any multimodal help (PA group) while the control group carried out some activities based on vocabulary. By comparing the control group with the PA group, we found out the effect, if any, of the explicit training of phonemic awareness and, by comparing the PA group with the PA-IWB group, we found out the effect, if any, of the multimodal tools used on the IWB. This research aims to take action in the field of ergonomics since teachers and learners are considered as being at work. This research fits into the field of cognitive ergonomics. Here, the quasi-experimentation was carried out during the school year 2011-2012 with 7-8 year old learners from Isère, France. Using a mixed research method, we triangulated qualitative data with quantitative data in order to get the most accurate results with an internal validity. This study shows that an explicit training of phonemic awareness (PA) has an effect on the level that learners can reach in PA and that the use of EMIR on an IWB allows learners to get an even better level in the same amount of time. Besides, it also appears that the use of the IWB for this kind of training helps the teacher when s/he is not a specialist in the target language. S/he can step aside, regulate the work and provide the correct pronunciation, which helps her/him reinforcing her/his feeling of self-efficacy as defined by Bandura (2003). Finally, the IWB urges the learners on interacting as a whole group and so discovering the English phonemes all together.

Den här studien har sin utgångspunkt i ett posthumanistiskt perspektiv – ett perspektiv som försöker få syn på materialiteten och dess roll i pedagogiska praktiker. Syftet med studien var att undersöka hur whiteboardtavlan används i förskolan och vilka relationer den tycks producera. Som insamlingsmetod användes deltagande videoobservation, som analysmetod - Aktör-nätverksteori (ANT). Observationerna gjordes på en storbarnsavdelning på en kommunal förskola i nordvästra Stockholm. Utifrån Aktör-nätverksteorin kunde tavlan förstås som en materiell-diskursiv aktör som ihop med andra aktörer ingår i olika nätverk i ett ständigt flöde av kopplingar och översättningar. Men den kan också förstås som en ”effektskapare” bortom de effekterna som den var tänkt att bidra med – och där många överraskande effekter träder fram i den fria leken. Om whiteboardtavlan på samlingen begränsar barnens möjligheter att agera fritt och bidrar till att en maktrelation förskolläraren-barn skapas och upprätthålls, så är det helt andra roller som gäller i den fria leken: tavlan skapar möjligheter till lärande och kreativitet, inbjuder till lek och samarbete och blir en mötesplats för olika barnkonstellationer. Den framgångsrika relationen barn-tavlan skulle dock inte varit möjlig utan andra aktörer i nätverk: pennor, suddborsteen, pennfacket och barnens fingrar/händer. Även kamrat- och mediakulturer i form av Angry Birds träder fram i den fria leken och kan ses som en diskursiv aktör som får allt mer inflytande i förskolans praktiker. Tavlan agens i den fria leken kan förstås som en viktig ”effekt” som inte är särskilt uppmärksammad av pedagogerna. Med whiteboardtavlan som aktör i rummet blir både barn och pedagoger något annorlunda.

The Thesis "Videosequences and their use in teaching physics at the elementary school" provides a basic understanding of the issue of the use of audiovisual technology in an environment at the elementary school, focusing on the integration of video in teaching physics at the second stage. It describes the possibilities of video sources on the Internet and instructions for their preparation and to their own creation. The Thesis is also based on practical experiences that means the inclusion of specific movies in two selected topics in teaching physics.

My dissertation is mainly focused on work sheets created in Smart notebook 10 which are intended for the third-grade pupils of primary school. At the beginning I am dealing with the didactic part of chosen curriculum in material which was made by me. Futhermore I am comparing available mathematic schoolbooks which are intended for the third grade. The main part contains methodical manual for users of the working sheets which were created in Smart Notebook 10. It is mainly focused on the operation, the usage and the right method of working out the particular tasks. In conclusion of my dissertation I am summarizing my conclusions of hours and I am evaluating my experience gained from teaching at the primary school during which I used the chosen working sheets.

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / This paper investigates the potential of Interactive Digital Whiteboards (LDI) installed in schools Municipal Public Network Aracaju Teaching (RPMEA), in order to find the process of using this Digital Technology of Information and Communication by teaching professionals in schools of elementary school. The research is based on survey of the technical and operational characteristics of the Interactive Digital Whiteboard, Epson models BrightLink® 450 / 455Wi, as a support tool for teaching and learning in the classroom; in the study of genealogy of the classroom as a social environment meanings of the education process; the significance and interdependence between culture and education and the presentation of the transformation of mass culture to the culture of digital media to the cyberculture, as new paradigm of experiences and subjectivities in conflict with the traditional model of school education, to identify and analyze which are the variables that make it difficult and contribute to the disuse of LDI in Elementary Education Municipal Schools in RPMEA, investigated between March 2012 and December 2014. The research methodology as the goal is exploratory and explanatory, of quantitative and qualitative approach, the nature of documentary sources and field raised at the headquarters of SEMED and five RPMEA schools selected, using the systematic gathering of technical data through observation, benchmarking and textual and photographic records of installation conditions and the LDI the technical support of networks and the associated infrastructure, s well as semi-structured interviews with professionals crowded in administration, technical and pedagogical support of SEMED and school units RPMEA. The analysis of the sources followed the line of the hypothesis, which was confirmed with the execution of the defined goals, allowing conclusive answer to the research problem that the variables that hinder the implementation of objectives of LDI and introduction of the Digital Media Culture in RPMEA are the result of the contradictions between the political and educational aspirations of the SEMED education planning, requirements made available for infrastructure and technical support in EMEF and the inconsistency of the training program for teaching professionals. / Este trabalho busca investigar as potencialidades das Lousas Digitais Interativas (LDI) instaladas em escolas da Rede Pública Municipal de Ensino de Aracaju (RPMEA), com o objetivo de pesquisar o processo de utilização dessa Tecnologia Digital de Informação e Comunicação pelos profissionais do magistério nas escolas do Ensino Fundamental. A pesquisa fundamenta-se no levantamento das características técnico-operacionais da Lousa Digital Interativa, modelos Epson BrightLink® 450/455Wi, como ferramenta de apoio aos processos de ensino e aprendizagem na sala de aula; no estudo da genealogia da sala de aula como ambiente social de significados do processo de educação; na significação e na interdependência entre cultura e educação e na apresentação da transformação da cultura de massas para a cultura das mídias digitais até a cibercultura, como novo paradigma de experiências e subjetividades em conflito com o modelo tradicional da educação escolar, para identificar e analisar quais são as variáveis que dificultam e que contribuem para o desuso da LDI nas Escolas Municipais de Ensino Fundamental da RPMEA, investigadas entre março de 2012 e dezembro de 2014. A metodologia de pesquisa utilizada quanto ao objetivo é exploratório-explicativa, de abordagem quanti-qualitativa, de natureza das fontes documental e de campo levantadas na sede da SEMED e em cinco escolas da RPMEA selecionadas, utilizando-se das técnicas de coleta sistemática de dados através de observações, análises comparativas e registros textuais e fotográficos das condições de instalação da LDI e das redes de suporte técnico e da infraestrutura correspondentes, bem como de entrevistas semi-estruturadas com profissionais lotados na administração, no suporte técnico-pedagógico da SEMED e nas unidades escolares da RPMEA. A análise das fontes seguiu a linha da hipótese proposta, a qual foi confirmada com a execução dos objetivos definidos, permitindo a resposta conclusiva ao problema de pesquisa de que as variáveis que dificultam os objetivos de operacionalização da LDI e de introdução da Cultura das Mídias Digitais na RPMEA são resultantes das contradições entre as aspirações político-pedagógicas do planejamento do ensino da SEMED, os requisitos disponibilizados para a infraestrutura e o suporte técnico nas EMEF e a inconsistência do programa de formação dos profissionais do magistério.