Purpose of resources in learning and teaching
| PNino Tsartsidze - 01 Mar 2024

To provide quality education,  it is essential to use appropriate educational resources. In the teaching process, it is especially important to raise the motivation of students. The use of educational resources plays an important role in this direction. during the learning process, it is necessary to use a variety of educational resources, it is beneficial for both teachers and students.

In 2020, in  Georgia, within the framework of a new educational project in 2020, with the cooperation of the Ministry of Education and Science, the Education Coalition, and the support of the United Nations Children's Fund, the first bank of complex tasks was created and placed on ELG.

Since 2015, the Educare organization has been working on the implementation of the Khan Academy. ka.khanacademy.org. More than 5,200 video lessons and thousands of exercises and articles in mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, cosmology and astronomy, electrical engineering, and computer science have been translated. The same organization launched code.org.

In 2020–2021, CK12 elementary and middle school textbooks and other resources in STEM fields (math, physics, chemistry, and biology) were translated. This project is implemented by the Education Coalition (see https://ck12.edu.ge/). the pandemic period gave teachers motivation to create learning resources. In this period, a lot of teachers were involved not only in using electronic resources but also in creating them. In a short time, teachers manage to use Microsoft Teams and create and share video tutorials, share digital resources for teaching. These teachers soon managed to interest their colleagues and involve them in this field. I want to mention that resources created by teachers are popular among colleagues.

As for access to digital resources, there is no research in my country, Georgia, that is about the development and use of digital resources. Along with the development of digital resources, it is important to solve the problem of students' and teachers' access to digital resources. As the experience of the pandemic has shown, digital resources are not available for at least a tenth of students. The problem of access to the Internet and computer equipment is relevant for some teachers as well.

In the 21st century, information technologies have an important role in general educational institutions for the proper management of the educational process and for improving the learning process of students. Therefore, there are many innovations and serious challenges for teachers and students, which are difficult to solve and a difficult require a lot of effort.

As a result of using modern technologies:

• More students are involved in the learning process;

• The teaching process goes beyond the classroom;

• Students will increase their technical knowledge;

• The teaching process becomes more manageable;

• The traditional teaching environment is replaced by a digital environment;

• Teaching becomes more interactive;

• Students actively participate in the teaching process, do research and choose the form of teaching themselves.

Due to the scale of the development of modern technologies, it is easy to find a large amount of material on the Internet, so it is important to find a reliable and trustworthy source. To find reliable information on the Internet, it is preferable to turn to the websites of educational and governmental institutions and scientific electronic databases. For this purpose, I would like to share with you the experience of using the Google Cultural Institute website of the world's most popular and large-scale artistic association in the educational process. The World Arts and Culture Online Platform is located at the following web address: artsandculture.google.com.

In 2011, Google established the most popular and large-scale online art platform, a kind of exhibition space that houses more than 2,000 museum treasures. The Google Arts & Culture team helps partners digitize, manage, and publish their collections. The site offers access to museums as well as real-world sites with images from Google databases, allowing virtual tours of places such as art installations and the Scientific Center at CERN. The website offers written content, news about museums and galleries, and suggestions for other places of interest. Some of the artifacts are accompanied by a story, which makes the exhibition alive.

From an educational perspective, using a platform accessible from the classroom, discover the latest technology and see performing arts at the Paris Opera, NASA's stunning image archive, and discover stories about our cultural heritage. Most importantly, teachers can use the platform effectively in distance learning, allowing students to explore the real collections of museums and galleries using a digital device. Everything on the website is well organized and laid out in a way that is easy to understand and navigate, which is a great option for students to learn even when they are not at school. Google Arts & Culture is available in a web browser but also works well as an iOS and Android app, so students can access it from their smartphones as well. The app is free to download and use, just like the website. For teachers, there are useful bookmarking and sharing features that allow you to save favorite pages, take a link to a particular exhibit, and share it with the class. It is Ideal if you want them to study or research a topic at home before class or vice versa, to prepare for later research and homework in class.

From the website of Google Arts & Culture, it is possible to organize a virtual tour of the famous museums in the world. Virtual museums are an important educational resource, allowing you to experience virtual reality. View and explore paintings, sculptures, and architectural examples. A virtual tour is a three-dimensional scene placed on the Internet that allows us to get an idea of a real object. The created model can be moved virtually. Virtual tours, of course, cannot completely replace real tours, but they are the best way to get to know dream places at any time. Another advantage of such excursions is the opportunity to find a variety of visual materials and broaden the worldview of students, and it also makes the lessons more lively and interesting.

Google Arts & Culture has many possibilities: the function of chronologically sorting samples of world art from different eras; a means of turning a work of art into another current style; the possibility of virtual viewing of world-famous cities; architectural samples; material depicting the works of famous artists; and also offering interactive experiments and educational cognitive games. A collection of more than 1600 experiments is placed on the website.

In 2021, due to the pandemic caused by COVID-19, to increase the accessibility of electronic educational resources for distance learning, the website added the topic "Learn with Google Arts and Culture for Teachers and Parents." You can choose the following subjects: music; history; chemistry; physics; art; biology; geography; computer sciences; and literature. When you choose a specific subject, there are a variety of materials to use: guides, practical tips, stories, famous facts, current events, educational games, experiments, lesson plans, photos, and other visual materials.

Google Arts & Culture, an online platform for world art and culture, is a non-profit initiative working with cultural institutions and artists around the world. Their mission is to preserve and disseminate world art and culture online so that it is accessible to everyone, everywhere. The website offers daily news.

The main challenge today is to find and evaluate the right information according to one's needs and to synthesize the obtained information for useful knowledge or connections. Media literacy, together with critical thinking, reflection, and ethnic behavior, constitute the core content for formatting an educated person in today's world.



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