Pedagogical and psychological references of use of Internet in case of primary school pupils

Lénárd András <lenarda@kincsem.btf.hu>

ELTE - TOFK

Nowadays Internet is regarded by most of us as a source of getting knowledge, as a tool of studying. And as such a tool, it is tried to adopt on different fields of education. There are some fields which are built specifically on Internet, for example the different forms of remote teaching, respectively hypermedial educational software, others are used only as an amendment, for example educational programs, containing alternative web bracing.

Methodology of Internet usage has an increasing number of literature, specialists have started to deal with the harm - (my lecture on Networkshop exhibition last year) and the advantage of Internet and they also engage in the problems how to teach the usage of Internet.

It seems to be unambiguous, that this field is not a separate one any more, but Internet is going to infiltrate and it is infiltrating into every educational system. Close to the technological - informatical and methodical approach it is worth to examine what kind of new pedagogical problems are raised by the presence of Internet in public education. Is it only a new device or basic categories can be capsized by using Internet in education widespread. The question: "Do we need or not?" seems to be brought to an issue: We need. The new questions are: When? And how?

I try to find the answers for these questions in my lecture, attempting to fit the usage of Internet into the traditional educational system, complementing it with those details, which were not present in this system till this time.

Basically I approach this problem from the children's point of view to review the following relationships: pupil - computer - network, teacher - pupil, teacher - curriculum.

We can establish showing the further conclusion that with using Internet widely during teaching, education will be altered basically.