Katarzyna Potyrała

• Professor (Associate) at University of the National Education Commission, Krakow

Cyberbullying and cyberaggression are phenomena that have been analysed for more than two decades. However, there is an empirical gap in the literature to characterise the scale of the phenomenon in certain countries and professional groups (e.g. teachers). In order to fill this gap, 733 teachers from Poland responded to questions identifying the s...

Along with the intensive development of the information society, many beneficial phenomena improving the quality of life of Internet users have appeared. Unfortunately, there is still an unharmonic participation of all age groups in cyberspace. This phenomenon is described as digital exclusion. This digital divide has been studied in detail and des...

The Covid-19 pandemic led to the transfer of the educational system in Poland to the online realm. This had a massive effect on the way in which lessons were taught, as well as on the communication system within the schools themselves. This study sought to understand the shift from offline teaching to online through the perspective of the leadershi...

The aim of the research was to investigate teachers' perspectives on the elements of emergency e-learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. The research was conducted with 134 teachers from different types of schools in Poland during the first wave of crisis e-learning (March - May 2020). The variables included in the analysis comprise teachers' use of...

The purpose of this study was to develop and to validate a study tool for determining the levels of academic teachers’ digital competence regarding the TPACK framework and self-reflection questionnaire of the European Competence Framework for the Digital Competence of Educators in the context of higher education. The classic 7-factor TPACK model wa...

The aim of the research was to show the conditions related to crisis e-learning in Poland from the perspective of the experiences of university teachers. The research was carried out by means of online questionnaire among 94 employees of the biggest Polish state pedagogical university. The survey used scales measuring attitude towards e-learning, a...

The study explores the school transformation process as evidenced by the opinions of head teachers. The main goal of the research was to present a content analysis study of the Polish educational environment on the basis of primary and secondary head teachers’ views on the risks and perspectives brought by the global Covid-2019 lockdown. The concep...

The main aim of the research was focused on the self-assessment of university teachers’ level of digital literacy (DL) and on the emotions accompanying them during crisis e-learning & teaching during the period of the pandemic in 2020. The research was carried out via online questionnaire (with responses along a 7-point Likert scale) among universi...

The text presents the ways in which the phenomenon of the digital inclusion of seniors in Poland is interpreted. Six specialists dealing with the subject of the digital education of older people participated in the research. The research was carried out among experts working in various institutions, providing educational, caring and leisure activit...

In this article we present the level of knowledge and literacy held by the parents of primary school students regarding internet safety (online safety, digital safety) in the context of digital literacy (DL) in terms of both technical skills and knowledge. The study reported on here was conducted in Poland, and was commissioned by the Ministry of N...

The text aims at measuring digital literacy among teachers of the third stage of education in Poland (lower secondary schools). The study was commissioned by the Ministry of National Education and was conducted in 2018 in Poland, and involved a group of 484 teachers. The goal of the research was to present the teachers' knowledge and skills related...

Recent civilizational transformations have led us to search for and introduce new didactic solutions. One of these is e-learning, which is a response to the needs of the education system and its individual stakeholders. The e-learning systems currently available offer similar solutions. Only during direct interaction with a given tool can one notic...

The goal of the study was to diagnose the needs of instructors working in the area of the digital inclusion of persons who are excluded, at risk of exclusion, marginalized, and discriminated against in terms of using new technologies. The research focused on the phenomenon of the digital divide as seen from the perspective of digital literacy educa...

Zjawisko selfie wpisuje się w interdyscyplinarny dyskurs o znaczeniu dystrybucji obrazów i ich angażowaniu do interakcji online za pośrednictwem nowych mediów. Przedstawiony w artykule przegląd tekstów łączy próba przybliżenia uwarunkowań psychospołecznych i kulturowych opisanego zjawiska. Ich różnorodność sprawia, że indywidualny profil użytkownik...

Educational tendencies are certain regularities outlined in the development of ideas related to education and upbringing. They show some perspectives that can be predicted by describing models, planning research on future processes as well as taking preventive actions. Trends are more, than tendencies, related to the style of some types of research...

The purpose of this study is to examine levels of academic teachers' digital competences regarding the demographics and professional backgrounds in Polish educational context. The 2-factor (Pedagogical and Technological knowledge) TPACK model is using in the study. A survey was administered to 103 academic teachers from Polish universities. Descrip...

Oddajemy do rąk czytelników monografię, której naczelnym założeniem jest ukazanie złożonej charakterystyki zagrożeń w świecie online. Publikacja wpisuje się w dyskurs podejmowany przez pedagogów mediów wpisany w paradygmat ryzyka, którego egzemplifikacją są zachowania odstające od szeroko rozumianych, ogólnie przyjętych norm bezpiecznego użytkowani...

The paper presents statements from an ongoing study (n=120) piloting large scale longitudinal qualitative teachers’ surveys between 2017 and 2020. The first part of the research started in 2018 with the aim to recognize personal level of digital competence of PhD students as a future academic teachers. The study was conducted during 2017–2018 years...

Ecological awareness involves natural knowledge, subjective perceptions, emotional commitment, and personal activity. It is shaped in a complex process under the influence of generally accepted social norms, information from mass media, formal and informal education. Increasingly young people are using new, new media to raise awareness. Research is...

The museum activity is more and more often aimed at integration with local communities, organization of scientific debates and intercultural dialogue, expansion of social network and framework for communication and mediation of scientific issues. Museums generate learning potential and create a social culture. The aim of the research was to diagnos...

The aim of the research concerning the organization of interdisciplinary educational workshops for 50 students-future teachers of technics and informatics. It was important to raise their level of social, communications and media competences, as well as the diagnosis of their attitudes towards the possibility of improving their technical skills of...

Pedagogiczne refleksje nad konstruowaniem i wspólną negocjacją świata przez jednostki na podstawie doświadczenia i relacji społecznych są istotnym elementem włączania i rozwijania idei pedagogiki partycypacyjnej (Naumiuk 2014, s. 25). W tym celu należy odejść od modelu kształcenia skoncentrowanego na podziale ról na nauczyciela (tego, który naucza)...

Zrównoważony rozwój społeczeństw w dużej mierze zależy od realizacji koncepcji kształcenia w obszarze poszanowania i ochrony zdrowia człowieka. Współczesna edukacja powiązana jest ze zmianami w podejściu do wiedzy szkolnej i społecznej. Jednym z elementów tej wiedzy jest kształtowanie odpowiedzialności za zdrowie swoje i innych (Potyrała 2011). Dla...

The main aim of the research was the attempt at finding the answer to the question regarding the influence of the way of realizing curriculum problems in genetics on the achievements of junior high school students in this respect. Among cognitive aims were, among others, establishing the conditions for effectiveness of the didactic process supporte...