Inquiry-based learning in science enhanced by digital technologies

摘要

The science education in Slovakia currently faces the new curriculum reform that emphasizes the role of scientific inquiry in education that is in good correspondence with massive European movement oriented on implementation of Inquiry based science education. As many researches show, the implementation of digital technologies into science education can help a great deal in the process of scientific inquiry. The contribution presents the key ideas of inquiry-based science education with concrete examples in physics education as well as the projects currently running in Slovakia in this field. The Slovak national project Modernization of education at primary and secondary schools is aimed at the implementation of new ways of education enhanced by ICT. This project is in a good consonance with the European 7FP project Establish with Safarik University in Kosice as a partner institution that is aimed at the use of IBSE elements in classes across Europe.