Lučka Drnovšek Pepelnjak, Osnovna šola Ivana Kavčiča
During Slovenian lessons, nine graders get to know Ivan Cankar and his works. Short stories, because of their topics and messages, encourage pupils to talk about everyday questions and hardships but unfortunately coming across resistance when reading these texts is a too frequent occurence. So it is very important for the teachers to choose effective teaching methods when dealing with Cankars texts. How to encourage curiosity, independence, cooperation and at the same time make Ivan Cankar and his works interesting to nine graders? We started with Ivan Cankars Moje življenje. The book is available on Wikivir. Before reading, pupils were given questions which were published in the web classroom. I introduced Ivan Cankar, a writer, a poet and a playwright, to the pupils by using Powerpoint. The next lesson was done with the help of computer tablets. The pupils received the instrucions via QR code. Next we read Ivan Cankars Bobi. Despite the fact that the whole text was in their school books, the pupils decided to read the text on their tablets. The questions for analysis were again given via the QR code. To test their knowledge, I used Nearpod programme, in which pupils in twos were doing different types of exercises on their tablets. We finished the lesson by writing a script and shooting a film according to one of Cankars short stories in Movie Maker programme. By using IKT I managed to make Ivan Cankar a bit more interesting for pupils who were born in the world of information technology. The pupils were highly motivated for work, they worked together well and were in the end very pleased with the results of their work.
