Review article
WATCHING CARTOONS, AND YET LEARNING MATHS!
Slavoljub Hilčenko
; College of Vocational Studies, Vocational Training of Preschool Teachers and Sports Trainers, Subotica, Serbia
Abstract
Primary first graders in Serbia are the ones most overwhelmed under the unreformed curriculum in Europe. This could be due to several reasons, that the transitions from preschool games to abstractions met in the school are all too soon; that the current syllabus and educational framework is not appropriated, is too voluminous, too ambitions and obsolete; that the teaching that is based on mere reproduction skills is exhausting and not motivating with a large number of extensively long and nonfunctional school subjects. Is it possible in the given environment, that thirsts for systematic changes, to offer more attractive and more efficient forms of education, that will serve the purpose of a new relieved and motivated approach to learning and more effective of the one presently performing. Our developed model of an animation movie “A dot, a line...”, has those ambitions. With its content and its means of application, it should find its place in mainstream education with first graders when first basic concepts in Maths are being formed in children (or preschool children). It is the one that will encourage their convergent- divergent potentials and “open doors” to functional thinking. The aim of this paper is to present a fully realized project, a model of educational -interactive animation movie with the attached quiz, which implemented values we wish to assess in teaching practice.
Keywords
animation movie; direct manipulation through animation; convergent- divergent and functional thinking; Maths concepts; technology and (pre)schoolers
Hrčak ID:
79536
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Publication date:
7.3.2012.
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