events 2009

Participants of the seminar at the American Center

Seminar for Teachers: Media and School

July 2, 2009

The American Center hosted a seminar Children and Media on June 15 with the goal of presenting and discussing research data on media behavior of pupils and students of elementary and secondary schools. The seminar which was co-organized by the U.S. Embassy Prague, the J.W. Fulbright Commission, and the Sociological Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, raised questions about the influence of various media upon the lives of young people and their approach to education.

Presentations:

• Information Technologies in Teaching (in Czech only)
  Bořivoj Brdička, PedF UK
• Multimedia Education in History (in Czech only)
  Jaroslav Pinkas, Klasické gymnázium Modřany and USTR; Vojtěch Ripka, USTR
• Technology in American Classrooms (in English),
  Ginny Sautner, U.S. highschool teacher, currently teaching at a gymnasium in Pilsen

Related links:

• Fulbright Commission
• Sociological Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences
• The Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes (USTR)