Towards a modern approach in teaching and learning the subjects of informatics in pre-university education

Abstract

Nowadays Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has been recognizedto be an effective educational technology which promotes dramatic changes in the teaching and learning processes. In the pre-university studies generally ICT tools have been used and taught but not informatics as a scientific discipline with its own concepts and methods.To outline and analyze the current situation of teaching the subject of informatics inpre-university studies, a questionnaire has been compiled to survey the opinions of the students about the way and quality that the subjects of informatics have been taught, the competences of the teachers, the curricula of the subjects and the laboratory conditions.Data from the questionnaire have been collected from the students of the first and secondyears from the main universities of Tirana, Vlora, Elbasan, Shkodra and Korca and fromthe pupils and teachers from the main high schools in Tirana. The curriculum of the subjects of informatics, interviews, observations, practices and methodologies used in the developed countries have been analyzed to draw the conclusions.