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The Use of Contemporary Media in Teaching among Primary School Teachers

The zenith of multiliteracy in the 21st century is information literacy, the literacy for survival in the digital environment. A Questionnaire on the Use of Contemporary Media in Teaching (QUCMT) was compiled, intended for teachers, saturated with 3 factors: 1) Use of contemporary media in learning and teaching, 2) Use of contemporary media to facilitate teaching, making it more attractive and making the content easier to master, and 3) Effect of contemporary media on making teaching superficial and memorisation weaker. The results of the research among primary school teachers in Republic of Croatia using this questionnaire show that contemporary media facilitate teaching to a great extent, so that teachers can no longer envisage teaching without them, and use them almost every day. In their schools, media are used increasingly frequently, their introduction is only one of several novelties, and pupils enjoy lessons which include contemporary media and find them more attractive. Using contemporary media, pupils find it easier to learn and memorise the material, and teachers consider multimedia didactics very important. Teachers who have access to contemporary media at home find it facilitates their teaching and makes it more attractive, while their pupils find it easier to memorise methodological-didactic contents with the aid of contemporary media. Teachers with many years of service use more contemporary media in teaching which confirms the importance of computer experience.

contemporary media, information and communication technology (ICT), IT literacy, primary school teachers, psychometric characteristics of questionnaire

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