A lot of of Polish schools have no data-logging and laboratory equipment. Some of teachers afraid of using ICT and data-logging equipment. Teacher training courses about teaching science withICT is not enough. How to help them? Computer Assisted Education and Information Technology Centre in Warsaw (OEIiZK), Poland, in-service teacher...
How to start? Researchers’ Night initiative in Europe started in 2005. The project was launched first by the European Commission as a Europe-wide educational festival, and repeated annually on the last fourth Friday of September. Since 2006 Hungary has also joined the program with different colorful activities organised in...
Everybody agrees that motivation is a key, perhaps the key factor in learning. It is easy to teach motivated students, the ones who want to learn. In my Science classes there are always a few students who are so interested in learning the secrets of nature that they will...
As technology is developing around us new teaching opportunities appear from time to time. Usually we can read enthusiastic articles how the new method will revolutionize education. Still if we look around in an average classroom we can’t see such a big difference in the last thirty or more...
Most of you may know that the popularity of natural sciences and techniques and the interest in those fields in schools have declined worldwide from year to year. This may affect many companies in the technical field, making difficult to ensure their well-qualified human resources in the future. Not...