Contemporary engineer pedagogic's project research - using multimedia at technology classes in technical and vocational schools

摘要

In modern school different levels of teaching, besides gaining knowledge, are becoming more and more important, especially didactics and use of modern teaching technologies. The purpose of our research was to establish the use of multimedia at science classes in spite of only 5 days a year of additional permanent technical education for teachers, granted by law. We were interested in multi-level use of computers at science classes and teachers methodical approaches. The research included all science teachers in technical and vocational schools all over Slovenia. We can conclude that teachers have given the multimedia method more than big advantage over classical methods. Rationalization and efficiency improvement points of view were especially emphasized as the results have improved for more than half according to standard methods. Insufficient knowledge about multimedia and its advantages over classical methods was noticed among science teachers. But teachers gave multimedia big support in science classes and they exposed how necessary is to start using multimedia in future.