Mojca Janžekovič, Osnovna šola Toma Brejca Kamnik

The teacher’s role in the classroom is to teach pupils to use a particular piece of information in everyday life, to think critically and to find meaningful answers in everyday situations. In order to assess knowledge, the pupil has to put the teaching contents into different situations, solve problems, compare, conclude and explain while maintaining a critical opinion as well as creativity (Rutar Ilc, 2003). Pupils may achieve all of the above-mentioned learning goals by participating in a bulletin board. Furthermore, they also deepen their skills of using a computer, Internet communication and argumentation. In the e-classroom, two bulletin boards are published. One of them is a platform for debates on a subject matter, expressing opinions and moderating. The other one serves as an answer-forum for the teacher’s questions. The pupils have to participate actively, search for solutions and give opinions and answers to their schoolmates’ questions. Attached to their posts are pictures or/and quotes of experts and reliable book or Internet sources. The goals of this activity include life learning, use of various skills, and development of critical thinking, argumentation and creativity. The activity immerses the pupils into the process of re-evaluating the usefulness of the World Wide Web. Pupils become actively involved on many levels and gain a lifelong knowledge. Due to its diversity and casualness, this method of teaching and assessing is very popular with the pupils.