Darja Korpnik, OŠ Vransko, Tabor
In day care students often want to play computer games on the internet in the computer classroom. Technology is an important part of today’s world and is already present in early lives of our children. At first I did not like the idea of playing computer games, but I realized that my students can be shown how to work with computers more efficiently. I had been thinking about various ways how to respect their wish and be productive at the same time. While I teach, I often focus on exploring active attention; this is one of the basic abilities in the process of learning. I decided to prepare didactic games for children which will stimulate and improve listening attention because various computer activities (e. g. playing computer games, processing of Microsoft Word documents, use of social networks, watching videos etc.) mostly stimulate visual attention. In the project “Pozoren sem”, my colleague and I introduced a didactic tool called “Pozorko” which contains 100 tasks for active attention stimulation. Among the tasks which improve listening attention, I had chosen the ones that could be transformed into a computer audio-video format. I used a voice recorder and Movie Maker for further processing. After I presented my work to the students, I took them to a computer classroom where they were able to choose among the tasks that had been designed to help them improve listening attention. The students accepted responsibility for improving their listening attention and they became more independent; they were able to participate in creating new games for improving listening attention.
