Emica Škrinjar, OŠ Selnica ob Dravi

Our school has been in an e-project about using iPads for 2 years. We can say that history repeats itself. About 150 years ago an article by F. Stergar was published. It was about tablets for schools and their purpose, usage, materials and prices. By taking part in this project we got a chance to use modern tablets during school lessons. Pupils compared 150 years old tablets to modern ones. Especially we were interested in their usage at history classes for making mind maps and at geography classes for using the geography maps and photographies. We were using our virtual classroom. At history lessons we were creating ming maps by using both: old tablets and modern ones. We were searching for differences, then we analysed them. Students should be able to present mind maps to their school mates, teachers and lesson observes. This is the way they learn how to talk in public. At geography lessons we used pictures, photographies and geography maps during all the lessons stages. The presentation is based on the concrete lessons. Our work was monitored and we checked and analysed teaching goals as well as digital literacy. The lessons were analysed and we came to different conclusions. Our 7th grade students were asked to do a questionnaire where they wrote their opinion about modern tablets usage. The capacity of the old and modern tablets depends on skills and abilities of their users.