Bernardka Radej, Zavod Antona Martina Slomška, Škofijska gimnazija Antona Martina Slomška

Excursions are part of the secondary school education. When incorporating innovative approaches of learning and teaching with ICT into our “innovative classes”, we decided to alter the concepts of fieldwork which is becoming authentic and has moved out from the classrooms, and involves active students participation in the planning phase (expenses, route, content, sightseeing), photo and video coverage, the use of e-guides (agencies, museums, galleries, public transport). Students also use different devices for evaluation and documentation of the chosen subject area (a wider selection of choices possible) and to complete survey questionnaires in order to improve future work.

After two years of experience we have noticed the students are actively involved in all phases of the authentic classes, develop their creativity and communicative skills in a foreign language. They have also improved critical thinking and managing electronic devices. Parents are actively involved in the process and communicate with us through social networking sites during the excursions. This year before the excursion to London we organized a parents – teacher meeting conducted as a video conference.