Report on ICT in Education in the Czech Republic
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
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Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Report on ICT in Education in the Czech Republic
Original language description
This chapter presents the Czech Republic as a small Central European country in which applications of computer technology, informatics, cybernetics and robotics in science and research, in medicine, industry and education have a long tradition. The origins of computer science development in this country are associated with the names Antonín Svoboda and Vladimír Vand. The chapter briefly introduces the history, political structure and educational system of the Czech Republic, including a system of teacher education and teacher professional development. It brings demographic and geographical data. The attention in the chapter is devoted to the conditions in which the integration of ICT into education at primary schools, secondary schools and universities is under way and how the Digital Education Strategy up to 2020, adopted by the Czech government in 2014, is fulfilled. The chapter provides statistical data of the Czech Statistical Office (ČSÚ) and the Czech School Inspectorate (ČŠI) on computer technology equipment and Internet connectivity of households and schools, number of schools, pupils, teachers in the Czech Republic. The main attention is paid to a position of the ICT educational area in curriculum for primary and secondary school education and to key factors influencing whether and how the primary and secondary school teachers use technology in their teaching in classroom. The chapter also introduces two national projects "PRIM" and "Digital Literacy" in which all nine faculties of education in the Czech Republic develop and validate teaching and learning materials for kindergartens, primary and secondary schools and teacher education in accordance with Digital Literacy Concept defined in DigComp and the Concept of Computational Thinking.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
Comparative Analysis of ICT in Education between China and Central and Eastern European Countries
ISBN
978-981-15-6878-7
Number of pages of the result
25
Pages from-to
107-131
Number of pages of the book
414
Publisher name
Springer Verlag, Singapore
Place of publication
Singapore
UT code for WoS chapter
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