How to educate students for the future?

摘要

Technologies, especially ICT are the most pervasive force influencing human lives today. Computers and electronic devices are mostly considered ICTs, but technologies in general involve much more. Most of technologies nowadays consist of four main components: hardware, software, brainware and know – how. All of these components are equally important. The investment efficiency into the modern technologies depends especially on the interest, motivation and education of their users. We are educating students for their future career opportunities that require such kind of knowledge and skills, which we as teachers may only predict nowadays. There is a question to be answered: “What should every educator extract from wisdom of the past and knowledge of the present for education needed in the future?”The main goal of the article is to present and summarize our results of research of students’ informatics knowledge and ICT competencies via questionnaire and problem solving. We also describe experience in teaching, the body of knowledge and methods which we have implemented into the subject Informatics II in the first year of Bachelor study at the Faculty of Economics, Technical University, Košice.