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The use of Mapwork.education app in geography lessons
Králíčková, Anna-Marie ; Hanus, Martin (advisor) ; Měkota, Tomáš (referee)
Map skills need to be developed in geography lessons. At the same time, modern technologies should also be included in teaching. As a result, the online application Mapwork.education was developed to address these needs. As with other didactic tools, it is vital to find out how teachers use this educational tool. This bachelor thesis has been prepared with this general intention in mind. The main aim of the research was to find out how the Mapwork.education application is used in school practice, i.e. in planning, implementation and evaluation of teaching. A questionnaire survey was used to collect data. Respondents were registered app users with a teacher account linked to at least one class with active pupils. That is, pupils who had already completed at least one task in the application. A total of 90 respondents were selected and contacted, of which 23 completed the questionnaire. The research conducted showed that the app is usually used directly in geography classes for individual work of pupils. However, the frequency of its use is limited by the technical equipment of schools. In the process of map skills development, the app serves either as a supplement to other materials or as the main tool for their development. Pupils' level and development of map skills is recorded in the results...
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Teaching population and settlement geography at high schools with tablets
Měkota, Tomáš
Using of modern technologies has been increasing in the sectors of economic and by people. If educational system shall prepare students for the future, it should learn them to work with that technologies, for example computers or tablets. Modern technologies have been entering to schools increasingly but very slowly. Effects of their usage in the educational process have not been examined sufficiently. This thesis applies to advantages and disadvantages of teaching population and settlement geography with a tablet, particularly using the Nearpod application. The influence of teaching with tablet on students' test results is analyzed on the basis of taught lessons and didactic tests. Then, advantages and disadvantages of tablet using at school are established for students and teachers according to interviews and observation during the lessons. This study shows that tablet using does not have to mean higher students' scores in the tests. Students are more motivated, lessons are more entertaining for them in comparison to traditional lessons. Tablets also provide priceless feedback to them. From the teacher's perspective, lessons with tablets are more time-consuming than traditional lessons, but they provide possibilities to observe all students' work during the lesson and more possibilities to...
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Teaching population and settlement geography at high schools with tablets
Měkota, Tomáš
Using of modern technologies has been increasing in the sectors of economic and by people. If educational system shall prepare students for the future, it should learn them to work with that technologies, for example computers or tablets. Modern technologies have been entering to schools increasingly but very slowly. Effects of their usage in the educational process have not been examined sufficiently. This thesis applies to advantages and disadvantages of teaching population and settlement geography with a tablet, particularly using the Nearpod application. The influence of teaching with tablet on students' test results is analyzed on the basis of taught lessons and didactic tests. Then, advantages and disadvantages of tablet using at school are established for students and teachers according to interviews and observation during the lessons. This study shows that tablet using does not have to mean higher students' scores in the tests. Students are more motivated, lessons are more entertaining for them in comparison to traditional lessons. Tablets also provide priceless feedback to them. From the teacher's perspective, lessons with tablets are more time-consuming than traditional lessons, but they provide possibilities to observe all students' work during the lesson and more possibilities to...
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Geographical literacy in work with graphics for 15-year-old pupils at lower secondary schools
Štochl, Vojtěch ; Marada, Miroslav (advisor) ; Měkota, Tomáš (referee)
The diploma thesis deals with the issue of a part of geographical literacy, specifically the skills associated with working with graphics such as tables, graphs, maps, or pictures, but, to a lesser extent, with the necessary knowledge. The thesis is divided into a theoretical part, where the literature on the topic is discussed and a practical part, where I describe the process of creating the test, its application and evaluation. The results are then subjected to analysis and discussion. In the research, I used the method of testing pupils of different schools - from elementary schools (lower secondary stage) to grammar schools and from Prague's schools to the Central Bohemian's ones. The testing took place in electronic form. The research sample of testing consisted of ninth-grade elementary school students and their equivalent groups from grammar schools - quarters. This is therefore a group of children aged about 15, for whom it is assumed (mainly for lower secondary ones) that they will no longer come into contact with formal geography education, and therefore they should be elementary geographically literate youths. The results of the work show that geographical knowledge is an important prerequisite for the development of geographical skills. Furthermore, the marks that students receive at...
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Reading Landscape by elementary school pupils
Urbanová, Michaela ; Měkota, Tomáš (advisor) ; Kučera, Zdeněk (referee)
This bachelor thesis is concerned with the geographical ability of understanding immediate landscape, and specifically on primary school pupils. It focuses on defining landscape, its typology and the ways of reading the landscape. The research consisted of observing a group of 20 students on a set field trip route, and the subsequent evaluation of the worksheets they were asked to fill in. The aim was to find out, how the pupils perceive the landscape, how different individual characteristics influence their perception, and chiefly the thesis aimed to aid in deeper understanding of this skill. The research shows that pupils do not have much experience with the task and they lack certain skills and abilities. The conclusion can be useful both to the pupils as well as the teachers, and it should help rouse interest for this topic. Keywords: Landscape, Reading of Landscape, Primary School Pupils
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Teaching population and settlement geography at high schools with tablets
Měkota, Tomáš ; Marada, Miroslav (advisor) ; Hanus, Martin (referee)
Using of modern technologies has been increasing in the sectors of economic and by people. If educational system shall prepare students for the future, it should learn them to work with that technologies, for example computers or tablets. Modern technologies have been entering to schools increasingly but very slowly. Effects of their usage in the educational process have not been examined sufficiently. This thesis applies to advantages and disadvantages of teaching population and settlement geography with a tablet, particularly using the Nearpod application. The influence of teaching with tablet on students' test results is analyzed on the basis of taught lessons and didactic tests. Then, advantages and disadvantages of tablet using at school are established for students and teachers according to interviews and observation during the lessons. This study shows that tablet using does not have to mean higher students' scores in the tests. Students are more motivated, lessons are more entertaining for them in comparison to traditional lessons. Tablets also provide priceless feedback to them. From the teacher's perspective, lessons with tablets are more time-consuming than traditional lessons, but they provide possibilities to observe all students' work during the lesson and more possibilities to...
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Long-term development of public transport serviceability in Pardubice region and its connection to the distribution of population
Měkota, Tomáš ; Marada, Miroslav (advisor) ; Chmelík, Jakub (referee)
Interest in the transport serviceability has been growing recently. Counties have to make transport plans whose purpose is to create an alternative to increasing usage of cars. Transport serviceability plays a role in the shaping of settlement system. Development of transport serviceability, its dependence on the administrative status of the settlement and the dependence on its horizontal transport position are analyzed in this thesis. Then, the thesis attend to the relation of transport serviceability and the concentration of population and to the relation of development of these two characteristics. Data from Sčítání lidu, domů a bytů, timetables and the IDOS application were used for the analysis. They were processed to graphs, cartographic representation and some statistics methods for dependence evaluation were used. There is shown that transport serviceability decreased with the change of political regime in 1989, it stabilized in 2000 and integrated transport system IREDO had an influence on increase of quality of it. The dependence between population size of a settlement and the quality of its transport serviceability and also particular dependence of their developments are shown in this thesis.
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