Łukasz Tomczyk

Jagiellonian University | UJ · Institute of Pedagogy

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 this paper is to evaluate the usefulness of educational software among teachers in Italy (N = 559). The evaluation of usefulness was conducted on the latest and most popular web-based software used by European teachers, namely: Quizizz, Mentimeter, Wakelet, Padlet, Canva, Emaze, Answergarden, Jamboard, Coggle, Createley, Wordwall, Learni...

The self-perception in digital competence of teachers has been studied in depth in recent years. However, these studies have rarely focused on the process of tutorial action and how to perform this action digitally between the tutor and the students, the teachers and the family. The main objective is to analyze the incidence of continuing education...

The present study focuses on smartphone overuse and on problematic behaviors related to it, investigating possible differences at the intergenerational level among the variables considered. Through the administration of self-report questionnaires, the perception of smartphone distraction, smartphone problematic use, phubbing, and cognitive failures...

This study presents the family support systems that operate in the Visegrad Group countries: Hungary, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Poland. After the collapse of communism, all four countries faced difficulties regarding the willingness of the population to have children, which was due partly to financial problems and to a slow re-evaluation of...

This study presents the family support systems that operate in the Visegrad Groupcountries: Hungary, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Poland. After the collapse ofcommunism, all four countries faced difficulties regarding the willingness of thepopulation to have children, which was due partly to financial problems and to aslow re-evaluation of trad...

The research involved evaluating the usability of modern educational software in two European countries (Italy, Poland). The research was conducted in the first quarter of 2022 by carrying out an online questionnaire using the LimeSurvey system. The online questionnaire was completed by 1209 prospective teachers. The software evaluation was limited...

The increased time spent using the Internet and smartphones is prevalent primarily among adolescents. This group is currently of particular interest to media educators and psychologists studying the impact of ICTs on quality of life. An example of the negative changes associated with the intensive computerisation of various spaces is the uncontroll...

This article is an attempt to discuss models of digital competence formation among future teachers. Presently, pre-service teachers are a generation that makes intensive use of Internet resources. However, basic ICT skills are not sufficient for effective implementation of new media in their future professional work (didactic and educational areas)...

The aim of this research was to compare the level of digital competence of future pedagogical staff (students of pedagogical faculties) in Italy and Poland. The research was conducted using original measurement tools and knowledge tests. The triangulation of techniques and research tools made possible the determination of the level of knowledge of...

Dynamiczne zmiany zachodzące we współczesnych społeczeństwach, związane z postępującymi procesami globalizacyjnymi, wymuszają wśród dorosłych konieczność poszerzania i uzupełniania posiadanej wiedzy. Dorośli w europejskich społeczeństwach muszą wykazać się gotowością do uczenia się, stałego podnoszenia własnych kwalifikacji, a niekiedy do przekwali...

Conference Agenda New Media Pedagogy: research trends, methodological challenges and successful implementations 10 - 12 October 2022 Link to the event: https://zoom.us/j/4191254927?pwd=am5mMGRaSGVsNzByc0tMdnRVODNCQT09 (ZOOM)

The aim of this article is to answer the question on what kind of support future teachers expect in order to effectively use new media (information and communication technologies, ICT) in their teaching and educational work. The research is part of the current needs for change in education (including higher education), which are determined by the i...

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 Problematic Use (PU) of Social Networking Sites (SNS) is a diagnostic and preventive as well as educational challenge. Problematic Use of new media is currently a phenomenon discussed by psychologists, sociologists, and media educators in the field of diagnosing the scale of the phenomenon, as well as protective factors and risks related to thi...

A modern school requires the use of modern information and communication technology (ICT) solutions. Incorporating hardware, software, and websites (e-services) into teaching practice has become a matter of course. The technical layer of the digitization of school is becoming as essential as teachers' attitudes to new media and the digital skills o...

The intensive development of the information society is changing the way many industries operate. Over the last few years, a particular type of transformation can be observed among educational institutions. It is educational institutions that are now making more efficient and courageous use of cyberspace resources and the potential of information a...

The digitalisation of education has become an irreversible process, and Poland is no exception. However, the issue of ICT usage in education raises many concerns and controversies, posing numerous methodological challenges at the same time. In the interpretation of our research, one of the most frequently used and validated models in empirical rese...

The inclusion of ICT in teaching and educational processes has become an irreversible fact. The degree of use of computers, Internet and software depends on many macro- and micro-social factors. Among the key factors related to the effective use of ICT in schools, the attitude to new media among educators, parents, students and management should be...

The paper deals with the lexicological basis for the creation of a dictionary to be used by pedagogical staff in the management of the educational process. These starting points respect the results of implemented qualitative semantics as well as the analysis of teachers' educational needs. Actually, the individual words should provide a better unde...

This book shows the results of research in different countries on how to measure digital competence among future generations of teachers and facing the challenges brought by the convergence of analogue and digital media. This book provides answers to the research questions: How should the key competencies related to media pedagogy be effectively me...

The aim of this article is to explore the level of digital literacy (DL) among students of the pedagogical faculties in Poland based on previous research. DL is one of the key competences of future teaching staff. The discussion on DL and how it is measured is part of the reflection on the shape of the future school and educational programmes at un...

The development of the information society forces a reflection on how the next generation of teachers are prepared for work in the school and non-formal education system. Current models for the education of pedagogical staff all over the world require the challenges posed by the convergence of analogue and digital media to be met, as well as for th...

Nomophobia and Phubbing are negative phenomena linked to the proliferation of smartphones as well as unlimited Internet access. Individual and social changes in behaviour determined by the ubiquity of smartphones necessitate an analysis of these two types of problematic Internet use. Both types of behaviour are particularly noticeable among adolesc...

Starting from the assumption that students need to be given the proper space-time to be deeply involved in instructional activities in order to activate both individual and group reflection, the present work describes the results of a case-study focussed on the course in “General Didactics” as part of the first year curriculum of the “Socio-pedagog...

Kompetencje cyfrowe 2022 PL Zapraszamy do wzięcia udziału w badaniu naukowym, które dotyczy przygotowania zawodowego przyszłych kadr pedagogicznych. Badanie dotyczy tego, jaką rolę w edukacji odgrywają technologie informacyjno-komunikacyjne. W odniesieniu do GDPR (art. 13 rozporządzenia UE 2016/679 GDPR General Data Protection Regulation) oraz art....

Digital Skills 2022 We would like to invite you to take part in a piece of scientific research that looks at the professional preparation of future pedagogical staff. The survey concerns what role ICT plays in education. In respect of the in GDPR (art. 13 UE regulation 2016/679 GDPR-General Data Protection Regulation) and art. 13 legislation 196/2...

Competenze digitali 2022 Vi invitiamo a prendere parte a una delle fasi di una ricerca volta a indagare la preparazione professionale dei futuri docenti. Nello specifico il questionario riguarda il ruolo delle tecnologie in educazione. Nel rispetto del GDPR (art. 13 regolamento UE 2016/679 GDPR-General Data Protection Regulation) e dell’art. 13 (l...

The demand for innovation in school and teaching is a reaction to what is perceived as the traditional school. Innovation in teaching mostly depends on the teachers themselves and how much they are ready to change and improve their own work, to be a reflective practitioner. The subject of our research is the role of innovative methods in improving...

This paper explores three groups of antecedents of sustainable consumption (SC) and how different generations approached sustainable consumption during Covid-19. In this study, which includes 2202 respondents, the authors use Binary Logistic Regression to explain the behavioural change (the adoption of a more sustainable approach) during Covid-19....

he use of computers, internet, and smartphones in the learning and teaching process has become an irreversible fact. Information and communication technologies (ICT) are now one of the fundamental teaching resources and even one of the principal teaching environments. The widespread use of ICT stands in positive correlation to the growing number of...

Rozwój technologii informacyjno-komunikacyjnych (ang. Information and Communications Technologies – ICT) ma swoje przełożenie na praktyki i badania związane z kształceniem i wychowaniem. Internet stał się ważnym środowiskiem biznesowym, kulturotwórczym, informacyjnym, edukacyjnym. Technologie informacyjno-komunikacyjne stały są kluczowym narzędziem...

The aim of this article is to systematically review the most influential and widely discussed theoretical frameworks that relate to the digital literacy (DL) of teachers. The aim of the research is to show the differences and similarities between the most popular theoretical frameworks on DL. The choice of theoretical frameworks was dictated by the...

Since the mid-March of 2020 when the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, the world has been fighting the virus for well over a year. Although much progress has also been made in vaccination and medical therapeutics, much of the world is still battling more deadly COVID-19 variants. Meanwhile, education systems in every country h...

In order to point out the importance and significance of studying the problem of digital competencies of teachers in the context of professional development, this paper discusses innovations in XI century education, distance education and teaching media, new roles of teachers, their competencies, and the way of improving competencies. The research...

Problematic smartphone use is a preventive and diagnostic challenge in media pedagogy and family pedagogy. Smartphones are currently used intensively by adolescents and their parents, which triggers many difficulties related to the control of behaviours mediated by digital media in both groups. Based on a survey conducted among Bosnian adolescents...

Digital competence is undoubtedly one of the key skills that teaching staff should possess. Currently, there are many theoretical frameworks and ways to measure skills and knowledge related to the use of information and communication technologies (ICT). This article is an attempt to show the real and declared level of digital skills among future te...

This study uses the quantitative research approach to examine the connection between students’ teamwork experience, self-regulated learning, technology self-efficacy, and performance in an online educational technology course. Sixty-three (63) students participated in this study. The study data were collected through an online questionnaire that in...

The aim of the research is to measure the extent of piracy among young adults and to relate this phenomenon to variables, such as values and time orientation. The research fits into the risk paradigm of cyber research. The research was carried out in Northern Cyprus, a country with a persistently high rate of digital piracy. The research involved 3...

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...

Technologies have enabled the emergence of new forms of interaction, and with them there has been the emergence of violence in the digital space. Although aggression is an ancient phenomenon, this type of violence is a recent one and has aroused interest around the world thanks to its negative valence and its still comprehensive configuration. In t...

Family business has had its place in the business world for several centuries. Family businesses start at the national level and gradually become multinational corporations through internalization. Globalization brings multinational companies a mix of cultures in all their foreign branches. Family businesses are affected by the fact that corporate...

Main objective The development of the information society has made it necessary to reflect on the means by which the next generations of teachers are prepared for their work in the school and non-formal education system. Current models of educating pedagogical staff all over the world require that multiple challenges are faced: those brought about...

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...

Digital piracy, understood as the unauthorised downloading and sharing of files protected by copyright, has not been sufficiently understood so far. One research gap of importance is the multidimensionality of the interpretation of digital piracy by parents, as it is they who are responsible for enhancing the digital competences of their children a...

The aim of the article is to highlight the key elements related to the implementation of new technologies in education from the perspective of the opinions and experiences of educators in the field in Bolivia, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Finland, Poland, Turkey, and Uruguay. The text compares issues related to attitudes towards the use...

For over two decades, a debate has been taking place in Poland on the role new media should play in learning and teaching. The importance of ICT is evidenced by the fact that computer classes and information technology are an obligatory subject from the first stage of education. Elements of ICT implemented at various educational levels and among va...

Fear Of Missing Out (FOMO) continues to be an under-researched phenomenon and is a form of problematic use of the Internet (commonly mistaken for Internet addiction). FOMO is a behaviour connected with the avalanche of information and the development of new digital technologies. Young people in particular are exposed to FOMO. Age is a predictive fa...

The article was written as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic in Poland, which had an impact not only on public health, but also on the functioning of the educational sector. The text is an attempt to summarize the challenges of crisis e-learning from the perspective of the challenges faced by teachers in Poland in the period of March-December...

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...

Education using information and communication technologies has become a reality. For several decades, there has been a debate on the opportunities and threats resulting from the implementation of ICT in education. The use of new media as didactic tools generates many unique implementations, allowing one to increase educational effects. The research...

Among the various strands of discussion on Inclusive Education, a recurring topic deals precisely with the perception of the main educational actors involved in this process, namely, teachers and students. In this sense, the present article brings an analysis carried out based on two samples: one from undergraduate students in Pedagogy and the othe...

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 development of new information and communication technologies (ICTs) has irreversibly transformed the education sector. The widespread use of new technologies based on IT solutions is strongly linked to the development of key competences, such as digital literacy. Today, it is increasingly difficult to imagine formal and non-formal education wi...

Dear Colleagues, The goal for this Special Issue is to offer a new approach to the discussion and presentation of the current opportunities and limitations of using e-learning in school and academic education. The Special Issue is an opportunity to discuss the main trends in e-learning and the associated research and to share experience and resear...

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...

Social media has been identified as an important vehicle in fostering social connections that maintain and expand existing relationships between organizations and their customers and stakeholders. This research was conducted on top public universities from the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland, with a focus on their communication activities on Fa...

This paper sets out to explain how adolescents interpret piracy. Digital piracy is one of the most important risk behaviours mediated by new media to be found among adolescents. It is global, and changes dynamically due to the continued development of the information society. To explore the phenomena related to piracy among adolescent Internet user...

Smart Ecosystems for Learning and Inclusion (SELI), traducido al español como Sistemas Inteligentes para el Aprendizaje y la Inclusión, es un proyecto de 24 meses, que apunta a promover la cooperación internacional en ciencia, tecnología e innovación. Sus objetivos son desarrollar un conjunto de herramientas y entornos digitales, promover la digita...

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 paper aims to present the conditions surrounding the use of ICTs in Brazilian schools. The goal of the study was to offer a wide perspective that included the opportunities, barriers, transfer of knowledge, and challenges related to introducing information technology into education. The technique used was qualitative - an expert interview with...

The objective of the research was to obtain data on the attitudes of the future generation of teachers towards using new media in their didactic and educational activities. Additionally, the text presents the level of their self-evaluation regarding the use of new ICT-based devices. Indicators of both variables are compared. The research was conduc...

In recent years, open educational resources have been offered in initiatives that aim to reach a wider audience, contributing to the democratization of knowledge. However, there is still a gap with regard to the accessibility of these educational resources. In this sense, this paper presents a digital ecosystem architecture, called SELI (Smart Ecos...

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...

We are giving the readers an extraordinary monograph. It is a publication whose main goal is to show the challenges of effective inclusion of ICT in teaching processes and the phenomenon of digital inclusion. The publication was created as a result of international research conducted in countries such as Bolivia, Brazil, Dominican Republic, Ecuador...

The article outlines the ways of using ICT by teachers. The research was conducted on an unrepresentative sample of 150 pre-service teachers in Poland. The research was carried out on students of pedagogical faculties in the largest Polish university of pedagogy. These are pilot studies on the ways of using ICT in education, students needs, univers...

The article outlines the ways of using ICT by teachers. The research was conducted on an unrepresentative sample of 106 teachers in Poland. These are pilot studies on the ways of using ICT in education, teachers' needs, school equipment, styles of using new media by the teaching staff. The article also shows the needs of teachers in the context of...

This study advances our understanding of the current use of social media and mobile devices by first year university students. This research sought to explore the influence of the use of social networks and new mobile devices by students for learning purposes. Data were collected using a self-report questionnaire at four universities in three count...

Risky behaviors, both online and offline, draw the attention of people who are engaged in education, namely parents, teachers, law enforcement representatives. This text joins the efforts to explain the relations between the Problematic Internet Use and offline risky behaviors. The main objective of the research was to present the co-occurrence of...

The overall aim of the book is to obtain the opinion of experts and actors that are involved in the provision of support to people with certain disabilities. The following actors and experts were consulted in the study: social workers, ICT experts, business experts, teachers with expertise in social and migrant issues. The study data collected has...

The text is an attempt to answer the question of how ICTs are used in the process of learning, teaching and digital inclusion in Poland. The study presents both, advantages and disadvantages of ICT implementation into Polish formal and non-formal education. Based on the data collected , the issue has been characterized from three perspectives: busi...

he overall aim of the book is to obtain the opinion of experts and actors that are involved in the provision of support to people with certain disabilities. The following actors and experts were consulted in the study: social workers, ICT experts, business experts, teachers with expertise in social and migrant issues. The study data collected has h...

The data show different issues connected with the digital literacy of pre-service teachers. The data were collected in 2019 among 450 teachers of pedagogical studies in Poland. The research was conducted in the biggest Polish university that trains educational staff, the Pedagogical University of Cracow. The data describe issues related to the self...

In recent years, social media has provided higher education institutions with new means of communication with their target groups. In this study, research was conducted on top public universities from four countries in Central Europe, with a focus on their Public Relations activities on Facebook. The purpose of this research is to explore the use o...

Problematic Internet Use (PIU) has of late come to the major attention of researchers of risky behaviours. For parents and teachers in turn, the various pathological forms of Internet use have become more and more noticeable. In recent years, the operationalisation of the term PIU has also been discussed and attempts to measure its various phenomen...

Introduction. Digital literacy refers to the skills required to achieve digital competence, the confident and critical use of information and communication technology for le arning, leisure, communication and future work of young people. Digital competence has a dual nature. First of all, it is the technical ability to operate programs, pages, equi...

The elderly population has been increased due better health conditions and quality of life. With a healthier aging, the elderly start to have a more active and participative life in society. They pursue, among other things, to acquire new knowledge and despite being a generation which access to existing technology was restricted, there is an increa...

In order to contribute to the increasing inclusion of people who have been for a long time out of society, it is possible to construct accessible didactic material for specific audiences, such as for people with learning disabilities, or other barriers to the full achievement of their learning processes, for instance, elderly, deaf, and visually im...

This study presents the work-in-progress implementation of a smart learning ecosystem being developed to support learner centered pedagogy such as digital storytelling and recent technologies such blockchain and microsites. The implementation of the ecosystem follows the design science research framework and the universal accessibility guidelines t...