Frančiška Hvalc, Suzana Plemenitaš, Lea Senica, OŠ Dobje

Teachers and students gain a lot by being part of the project Introduction of E-Content and E-Materials into the Classroom. Our final goal was not to use tablets but to improve lessons while we were using them. After two years, we can say that we have succeeded. Students, due to new methods and forms of work assume an active role in learning; they are more responsible and more independent. Teacher appears in the role of a facilitator in the classroom. Cooperative learning dominates traditional, frontal teaching. Because each student has his own tablet, checking the knowledge by different tools (Socrative, Google Drive, Mahara), fast feedback and insight into students’ prior or achieved knowledge is possible for the teacher and the student. Students use tablets and seek information and materials on the Web. They work as fast as they want, videos and animations can be seen again or split; they take photos and make films… We can differentiate lessons easier and offer students an open way of teaching. E-textbooks that are available and that we have tested have many animations, good illustrative photos, interactive exercises for assimilating knowledge and practising. Tablet itself is already an additional motivation for the students. However, a lesson must be well planned and controlled; the teacher needs to know why the tablet in the classroom and pupils should know the rules of work.