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To assess the e ectiveness of the Advances Learning Strategy (ALS) we have created an on-line platform, which we then used to run some activities in two diferent schools. 200 students participated in this project which was regularly supervised.
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Advance Learning Strategy (ALS)
An identification of the significant problems in the field of research
An outline of the current knowledge of the problem domain, as well as the state of existing solutions
Who is today's student? Whom is student nowadays? How does student learn?M. Prensky called today’s students the digital native, D. Tapscott used the name: the net generation. Their natural environment seems to be the internet, not only because of that they are just very active in the Internet.They love looking for information and present critical approach to the information they have found. (D. Tapscott) . Moreover their learning is often only skin deep. N. Carr think that their minds are earthbound. Their “learning” is based on scanning contents, and they very often have problem with processing this information into coherent knowledge structure. The problem is growing if we accept the thesis that: the main aim of education should be developing students’ creativity and imagination. How this creativity, imagination and activity should be emancipated? The answer for this questions is hidden in the Advanced Learning Strategy. What is the main point of Advanced Learning Strategy?The main thesis of strategy is if the students want learn they should build a bridge between their previous knowledge and new informations. ALS is helpfull to build this bridge. On the beging ALS method, students activates previous knowledge, then processing new informations andfinally systematize it to build a new cognitive structure in mind.The strategy appeal directly to D. Ausubel who is author of advance organizers theory; indirectly to J. F. Herbart’s apperception theory and L. Wygotski zone of proximal development.According to Stanislaw Dylak, the leader of the group which developed and are working on the Strategy of Advance Learning (SAL), the way of learning determines knowledge operation. Therefore, in the teaching-learning process, we should emphasize the way of learning against the learning results, what we propose in the Strategy.
Research results
Questions
The national Science and Maths exam results, prove that science and mathematics achievements of students from Wielkopolska province are rather low (Table 1). This resulted in putting a research problem: How can we raise learning and teaching results in science, and mathematics? Generally we need improved pedagogy of teaching these subjects. The new way of teaching-learning should be based on students` activity (problem solving), internet and cyberspace which they use on daily basis. It is also crucial that we take into account new ways of learning which are dictated by the ICT develop-ment.
Is the Advanced Learning Strategy an e�ective and exciting option for Polish education? Can we use it within a wide range of situations? What are the strengths and weaknesses of this method from the
users’ point of view?
People who have been actively creating and promoting the Advanced Learning Strategy are PhD’s candidates and teachers themselves. We are constantly looking for new ways of improving learning and te-
aching when using ICT.
Table 2 |Changes in students' self – assesed level of understanding scientific issues addressed during Biology, Chemistry, Geogra-phy, Physics and Maths classes. Kruskal–Wallis one-way analysis of variance (H4 =371,586; p <0,001) demonstrated statistically significant di�erences in students' self – assessed way of understanding scientific issues depending on classes they took.
Table 3Changes in students' self – assesed performence during Biology, Chemistry, Geography, Physics and Maths clas-ses.Kruskal–Wallis one-way analysis of variance showed also statistically significant di�erences in students' self – assessed performance (H4 =324,092; p <0,001) depen-ding on classes they attended to.
Grażyna Barabasz is a PhD student at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (Poland). She has a degree in Education. Her areas of interests are e-teacher`s com-petences in on-line learning
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Mateusz Leszkowicz is a PhD student at Adam Mickie-wicz University in Poznań (Poland). He is doing educa-tional research on visual interactions between graphic medium and user. He is engage in eye tracking methodology, investigate reading behaviours of teenagers with infographics. He is also running some courses about visual literacy in education.
Anna Wiśniewska is a second year PhD student at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (Poland). She has a degree in Education and Psychology. Her areas of intere-sts are educational diagnostics, science education and deaf education. She participeted in two innovative projects related to science education: Kolegium Śniadekc-kich and eSzkoła – Moja Wielkopolska
Anna Wiśniewska, MAAdam Mickiewicz UniversityPOZNAŃ, POLAND
Grażna Barabasz, MAAdam Mickiewicz UniversityPOZNAŃ, POLAND
Mateusz Leszkowicz, MAAdam Mickiewicz UniversityPOZNAŃ, POLAND
To assess the e�ectiveness of the Advances Learning Strategy (ALS) we have created an on-line platform, which we then used to run some activities in two di�erent schools. 200 students participated in this project which was regularly supervised. Both teachers and students who used the Advanced Learning Strategy were also interviewed.
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Table 1 |Polish lower secondary school students' performance in the national Science and Maths exam (2006-2011)Source: www.oke.edu.pl
Professor at Adam Mickiewicz University at Poznan. He is the head of Department of Research on Teacher Education and Teacher Professional Development (Zaklad Pedeutologii). He is teaching pedagogy and pedeutology (teachers’ profession, teaching and teacher’s personality) and a member and leader of international projects on science education and teacher education. The leader of the SAL group.
Stanislaw Dylak, PhDAdam Mickiewicz UniversityPOZNAŃ, POLAND
Part 1 research2013 -teaching science and maths in on-line and classroom enviroment | Adam Mickiewicz University POZNAN, POLAND
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