New Tech and Social Media Boost Learning

New technology and social
media in the learning
process
Alka Stropnik (alka.stropnik@kgz.hr)
Ana Sudarević (ana.sudarevic@yahoo.ca)
SLAMIT 7, Zagreb 30th October 2017

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Alka
•school librarian (elementary & gimnasium)
• adult department
• special library (IRB)
• young adults librarian
• school library advisor (R&Department ZCL)
• Training Centre for Continuing Education of Librarians - two workshops for
school librarians and children and YA librarians (new library services, reading
programs and ICT in libraries)
• presenter on conferences
• lecturer on universities in Zagreb and Osijek
• chair of the Section for library services for children and YA (CLA)
• one of the coordinator the first Croatian National Campaign Promoting
Reading Aloud to children from the earliest age

Ana
• school librarian (Elementary School Dubovac, Karlovac)
• the county coordinator for primary and secondary
school librarians' professional development
• Best School Librarian award for 2016
(Croatian School Librarians Association, 2017)
• Training Centre for Continuing Education of Librarians –
workshop for school librarians (Reading programs and
ICT in libraries)
• presenter on conferences
• vicepresident of the Croatian Reading Asociation
(2006 – 2012)
• editor of Hrčak : Croatina Reading Asociation’s
magazine (2006 – 2016)

• DIGCOMP: A Framework for Developing and
Understanding Digital Competence in
Europe (2013)
• Digital Agenda for Europe
• Guidelines for library services for YA : Web
2.0 and Library Services for Young Adults:
an introduction for librarians (2009)
• IFLA School library guidelines (2015)

• March 2015, Ministry of Culture
• Education – preschool & reading
• Education – school & reading
• Institutions – libraries & reading
• Publishers & readers
• Croatian authors & reading
• eBook
• aims – to create a framework to improving reading skills, development
reading culture and habits, reading with pleasure and understanding
National Reading Strategy

NRS – Swot analysis
• Legislation
• Invisibility
• Lack of research
• Population

• New titles
• Free access to digital content
• eBook lending platform
• Encouraging publishers
• Promotion & popularization

• digital textbooks
• web portals ... by publishers
• micro:bit - robotics and automation tools
for entry into the world of programming and STEM in general
(New) technology in our Schools
facultative subject mandatory subject
Primary school 5th – 8th grade since 2018/2019
in 5th and 6th grade
High school first 2 years or all (3-4)
years
IT class (Computer Science)

the central point for accessing services/applications

The purpose
• to establish a system for the development of digitally mature schools
• implementation of a system of digitally mature schools in the entire
primary and secondary education system in the Republic of Croatia
The aim
• development of digitally competent students (continuous schooling,
competitive on the labour market)
https://www.e-skole.hr/en/e-
schools/project-description/
since 2015.

• part of the pilot project eSchools
• Criteria and guidelines for designing quality eBooks
• website with full text (eBooks)
•

Jasna Milički, Ph.D.
Ana Sudarević
* Required reading

• online survey for students (12 or 13 years old)
• year(s): 2015 and 2017 (new!)
• 2360 answers
• 1169 girls; 1191 boys

COMPUTER
2114
SMARTPHONE
1085
TABLET
(eReader)…
Which device(s) do you own?
2015. ALL 3 DEVICES
personal computer 89%
708
30%
tablet or other eReader 52%
smartphone 46%

Do you like to read?
In your opinion, reading
is important.
YES 1433 (60%) 2121 (90%)
NO 927 (39%) 239 (10%)
Likes to read/
reading is
imprortant
1390
Doesn’t like
reading/ reading
is important
731

Have you read an eBook?
YES 28%
NO 72%
YES
654
NO
1706

Would you rather read:
printed
book
62%
eBook
38%
eFormat would motivate me more
to start reading eBooks*.
YES 1148 (49%)
NO 1212 (51%)

CONCLUSION
• generation prefers
printed books
• not enough knowledge
about possibilities of eBooks
• equal purchase of both printed and eBooks
• offering students choice according to their own learning style

Gfk* Croatia
• April, 2017
• Book market research
• Representative sample (1000 examinees)
• Age, sex, religion…
• Books reading, habits borrowing/buying books
(bookstores, libraries, reading purpose, buying for children, adults…)
• eBooks
*GfK is international (market) research institute

eBooksSLAMIT 7, Zagreb 30th October 2017

72% population have possibility to read on digital devices
PC SMARTPHONE TABLET eREADER NONE
2014 - 70%
2013 - 64%
2015 - 73%
2016 - 72%
2017 - 72%
68%
62%
+10%
68%
64%
64%
36%
19%
+90%
38%
+2%
44%
43%
+5%
8%
4%
+100%
14%
+75%
16%
8%
1%
1%
1%
1%
2%
30%
36%
-17%
27%
-10%
28%
28%
-1%
IZVOR: GfK Hrvatska: Istraživanje tržišta knjiga; 2017; n=1.000
Question: Do you have possibility to read eBooks, as well as other literature on Internet, ie. do you have any digital device? (more answers)

Digital devices are more possessed by:
• from 15 to 44 years old (84% - 92%)
• higher incomes (90%)
Ana & Alka, SLAMIT 7, Zagreb 30.10.2017.

Q: Do you have possibility to read eBbooks, as well as other literature on Internet, ie. do you have any digital device? (more answers)
• 8% YA from 15 to 24 doesn’t have any digital device and
possibility to read eBooks
• even 80% YA (from 15 to 24), and 59% adults (from 25 to
34) have smartphone (average 44%), while 21% have
tablet (average 16%)

On digital devices most frequently are read newspapers
(from 72% which have digital devices)
75
27
19
18
17
12
2
10
Dnevne novine
Portale s autorskim, kritičkim sadržajima
Blogove s autorskim, kritičkim i drugim sadržajima
Nespecijalizirane e-časopise i magazine
Specijalizirane e-časopise i magazine
Čitam E-knjige, ali ih ne kupujem
Čitam E-knjige koje i kupujem
Ne čitam niti povremeno sadržaje na Internetu
eBooks
Q: Do you have possibility to read eBooks, as well as other literature on Internet, ie. do you have any digital device? (more answers)

Reading eBooks (very slowly) grows
10
%
7
%
20132011
eBooks buying
1%2%
2014
0%
12%
2017
2%
More often read:
• Population in Zagreb – 19%
• Younger population (15-24 yrs) – 21%
• Highly educated population – 18%
12%
2015
2%1%
8
%
2016
12%
IZVOR: GfK Hrvatska: Istraživanje tržišta knjiga; 2017; n=720 (only those who HAVE possibility to read on digital devices)

CLICK & READ
Digital Collection of Student’s Picturebooks
About:
• 8 picturebooks made by students
• made for My first book contest
• did not win (not published)
• since 2005
Steps:
1. scanning every picturebook
2. editing pictures, typing full-text
3. creating document in pdf format
4. ISSUU – “flip the page” effect
Goals:
• students use new techology
• to promote and support digital literacy
• presenting original and unique works
Further plans:
• adding new picturebooks
• organize the same project in other
schools in KarlovacSLAMIT 7, Zagreb 30th October 2017

Award:
Best poster
Students' Picture-book Digital Collection, Libraries in Digital the
Age (LIDA), Dubrovnik, 2006.

VIRTUAL COLLECTIONS: eBooks, eMagazines, eReference
part of
school library website

Project „From book to tablet
– School library for new generation(s)”
• since 2015 - students initiative
• High school in Labin (Istria)
• Donation
• Using eReaders
• eBooks
• Audiobooks
• Reading corner

Social media

Project Wiki-dveri
• Since 2009
• Collaboration 9 school libraries & public library Ante Kovačić
(Zaprešić, ZCL)
• Junior high school students (13-14 yrs)
• Special library collection (about local cultural and natural
heritage)
• Cooperation, collaboration, team working by using books
and other materials, learning digital skills, making new value
on social media – wiki platform
• Themes: castles; nature, ethnologic and historical heritage;
famous persons; legendes and folk stories

Project Wiki dveri

global education
network
• communication
• learning materials (for practice)
• quizzes
• polls

Slam it!

Sources
• Europa 2020. Europska komisija. http://ec.europa.eu/europe2020/europe-2020-in-a-
nutshell/index_hr.htm
• Digital agenda for Europe. European Commission. http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda
• Prijedlog Nacionalne strategije poticanja čitanja. Ministarstvo kulture. http://www.min-
kulture.hr/userdocsimages/JAVNA%20RASPRAVA/M%20%C5%A0%20%20PRIJEDLOG%20NSP%C
4%8C%20-%20prije%20slanja%20na%20javnu%20raspravu%20-
%20kopija%2022%204%202015%20%20(2).pdf
• Smjernice za knjižnične usluge za djecu i mladež. Zagreb, Hrvatsko knjižničarsko društvo, 2009
• Web 2.0 and Library Services for Young Adults: an introduction for librarians
https://www.ifla.org/files/assets/libraries-for-children-and-ya/publications/web-2.0-and-library-
services-for-young-adults.pdf
• IFLA School Library Guidelines https://www.ifla.org/files/assets/school-libraries-resource-
centers/publications/ifla-school-library-guidelines.pdf

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