New teaching aids approved for use in elementary schools – third year in a row – May 2015
ITdesk.info – project of computer e-education with open access via the Internet launched six years ago within which the project web page www.ITdesk.info was set up. This web page will enable learning and consolidation of basic computer skills and overall computer knowledge. Access to the published material is free and open. The goal is to use the project ITdesk.info to actively promote the human right to free access to information and education, to raise public awareness considering the very notion of literacy, which today without question involves digital literacy, and to promote digital literacy.
Over the last two years the Education and Teacher Training Agency of the Republic of Croatia has approved certain materials for use as official teaching aids, within the elementary school subjects Computer Science and Information Technology (5th to 8th grade) and Technical Education (5th to 8th grade). (Press release: www.itdesk.info/en/press-release-additional-teaching-resources-approved-primary-schools/)
We have continued to upgrade the project with handbooks relating to advanced use of office programs and translation to foreign languages and have also, with volunteer help, applied two new online publications for approval by the Agency, which were approved for the elementary school subject Computer
Science and Information Technology. (List of approved teaching aids for school year 2014/2015: http://www.azoo.hr/images/razno/PNS_-_2015.pdf )
Twenty people took part in making this part of the project happen. We would like to use this opportunity to thank all volunteers for their contribution in finalizing this part of the project as well as wish all pupils and students (as well as everyone interested) to successfully acquire knowledge of digital literacy in order to become active members of modern IT society.
Materials approved by the Agency this year will also remain freely and permanently available to all pupils and students in the Republic of Croatia and abroad as online publications available in open access for viewing, printing and distribution.
The two newly approved teaching aids:
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People who took part in this part of the project:
– authors: Mariza Maini, Melani Max, Ivan Ljubičić, Igor Filipović, Gorana Čelebić, Mario Dujlo, Dario Ilija Rendulić
– translation and/or proofreading: Dino Dumančić, Petra Matjašec, Katarina Posilović, Una Šijan, Tanja Karas, Ana Džaja, Maja Vidan, Kristina Vlaović
– cover: Silvija Bunić
– expert review:
– Frane Šesnić, mag. ing. el., EdukaCentar, Institution for Education, Croatia
– Surojit Chakraborty
– Victor Kuo
– project managers: Sanja Kolarić, Dario Ilija Rendulić
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Translation: Petra Matjašec