Development opportunities for mobile and ICT learning in teacher education

Abstract

Learning is nowadays a continuous intellectual readiness to be able to cope with the current needs of the world of work. Students’ knowledge must be adapted accordingly and they must be capable of continuous development throughout their lives [8]. Changes in teaching-learning habits have already been observed at the beginning of the 21st century and those involved in education need to adapt to these changes with the appropriate transition to digital education what is more important today than ever be-fore. We asked our teacher-candidate students in an online questionnaire at the beginning and at the end of the “Teaching Methods in Mathematics” course. Our non-representative survey provided valuable data for course de-velopment. The aim of the survey was to find out students’ perceptions of the methods and tools they had learned in education. In the questionnaire at the beginning of the semester, we inquired our students about the types of work and methods they were familiar with, and then they gave their opinions about the different ICT tools, educational programmes and applications and how they were used. At the end of the semester, we interwieved them again whether they still held similar views on the subject or they had managed to change their views during the course.