Author(s):
Editorial Board.
Page No : 91-92
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COVER
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Cover page, Vol. 13, No. 3, 2016, GU/NSE
Author(s):
Editorial Board.
Page No : 93-93
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CONTENTS
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Contents, Vol. 13, No. 3, 2016, GU/NSE
Author(s):
Andris Broks.
Page No : 94-95
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THINKING ABOUT THINKING: START-UP FOR MODERN EDUCATION FOR TOMORROW
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Today it is a period of time when serious changes all around us and within us have started. Today we meet not only local small quantitative changes – reforms, there are also some big changes – transformations are coming up. Started in the 16-th century, revolution of Science and Technologies has introduced today new global scale impact on our life - social sciences as well as humanities have started to play a much more important role within sustainable development of our life and education for tomorrow.
Thinking as spiritual process – brainwork within human nervous system is managing humans’ particular life activities as well as human’s life as a whole. Thinking about thinking today is becoming start-up activity within the development of our life and education tomorrow. Using other words, conscious systems thinking today is becoming of very special value when solving our actual and complex life and education problems. It means that deeper or higher understanding and comprehension of humans’ private and society’s public spiritual life is becoming our first order task.
Author(s):
Vincentas Lamanauskas, Violeta Šlekienė, Loreta Ragulienė.
Page No : 96-113
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FACEBOOK‘S ROLE IN STUDENTS` SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT
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Facebook, having more than a billion users and being acceptable in more than 70 languages, is changing the ways of communication and sharing information of hundreds of millions of people. Lithuanian users is not an exception. Rapidly changing Facebook, has become an actual scientific research object. Scientists universally are investigating Facebook’s influence on social life. However, Facebook is still quite a new phenomenon in science, and still uncertainty exists defining the most effective its research and usage methods and possibilities. In the last decade, a tendency has been observed, that Facebook is used not only for entertainment, leisure or communication, but more and more its educational functions and possibilities come to light.
In 2016, a research was carried out (totally, 300 Lithuanian high school first to fourth course students participated in the research) about Lithuanian high school students’ use of social network Facebook (FB), seeking to reveal how and what functions of a social network FB Lithuanian high school students use, how they value it, what is their opinion about FB influence on a person and what are the possibilities of FB educational use.
It has been stated, that most of the students, assuming, that FB is a good communication device, express a positive attitude in the aspect of the statements about possibilities to obtain interesting information about university in Facebook, to find useful sources for the studies, about academic group communication. This shows that they are important in students’ life, FB diversifies study methods, helps to obtain useful information for university studies. Though students spend a lot of time in Facebook, they assert that they are not dependent on using social network, and that this does not have a negative influence neither on their psyche nor the studies.
Author(s):
Sutuma Edessa.
Page No : 114-121
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IMPACTS OF INSUFFICIENT INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS AND HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEMS IN TEACHING BIOLOGY
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The research was conducted on the impacts of insufficient instructional materials and higher education systems of teaching biology on the qualification of graduates as outputs.
Data collection methods were through variables of in-depth interview questions and face-to-face observations, whereas both quantitative and qualitative methods were employed to analyze evidences comparatively.
Data sources were graduates of biology of different universities, who joined the post graduate diploma in teaching (PGDT) teachers training program of Addis Ababa University to be biology teachers, and evidences were gathered while the trainees were attaining the course biology teaching methods.
Interview questions were distributed to 200 trainees and respondents provided their judgments both in written or oral forms. The face-to-face observations were conducted on 20 of the trainees while conducting the tasks of biology teaching methods using observation checklists.
As a result, the impacts of the insufficient instructional materials and higher education systems were accounted for 56.83% and impacts on competence of the graduates of biology in performing expected biological tasks were accounted for 71% that made learners at an average 63.915% unsuccessful.
The research was concluded with great divorce of theory and practice due to the impacts of insufficient inputs of instructional materials and poor education systems, in which graduates ended with incompetence and joblessness.
Author(s):
Vincentas Lamanauskas.
Page No : 122-126
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SOME ISSUES ON BIOLOGY EDUCATION: AN INTERVIEW WITH ANDREJ ŠORGO
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Dr. Andrej Šorgo is Associate Professor of Biology Didactics at the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, and a part time researcher at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Maribor. He got his Masters and PhD degrees in Biology from the University of Ljubljana. He has published textbooks and research articles and presented his work at a number of conferences. He has additionally over 20 years of experience as a secondary and higher vocational school teacher. He has won the award “Most innovative secondary school teacher”.
More information is available online at: http://biologija.fnm.uni-mb.si/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=55&Itemid=7&lang=en
Author(s):
Editorial Board.
Page No : 127-128
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