Abstract:

European projects in the scheme Erasmus + KA 220 - HED - Cooperation partnership in higher education introduced a very useful idea of special activities denoted as LTT – Learning, Teaching , Training. Project partners are supposed to organize these activities, supported financially by the project grant, where participants present their best experience and knowledge acquired in practical teaching in respective subjects. Thus the project partnership is informing and teaching itself about the most innovative didactic methods, motivation tools and newly appearing information and communication technologies and applications. STEM subjects are among those in which usage of technology is irreplaceable. The incredible pace of the development of new interactive solutions for knowledge acquirement and assessment is influencing all aspects of our life, including our reasoning, data searching, education practices and pedagogy. This fact causes an enormous burden for the active participants of education process, teachers in particular. The idea of teachers teaching teachers is therefore more than welcome.

One of the projects dealing with STEM education and aiming to develop and train guidelines for using digital tools and resources in STEM education is project DigiSTEM coordinated by Tampere University of Applied Sciences in Tampere, Finland. Project main idea is to contribute to the digital and pedagogical competence of higher education institution educators and to develop Guides on digital pedagogy and other instructional resources that will be available free on the project MLP - Mathematical Learning Platform. Most successful project activities were 3 LTT, where organizing project partners trained the others how to use effectively various available ICT resources and applications, as dynamic mathematical programmes like GeoGebra, software Mathematica or simple Power Point to develop educational videos, or how to generate Stack exercises in the Moodle environment. They informed colleagues about available application for on-line testing as e.g. Socrative, and others. The greatest attention is always paid to didactic aspects and motivational effects that the use of ICT can bring to improving the mathematical literacy of students in STEM fields.

Information about project webpage, project MLP with description of resources available for free to all interested educators and teachers will be presented in the poster, together with details about participating universities.

Keywords:

Digital didactics, digital tools, technology in STEM, teacher training.