OpArt or OPIT for Art Programming

Abstract

The present article describes an experiment for the application of a project approach facilitated by information technology (IT) in the teaching of Informatics to high school students in the 11th grade. The work of students at two Mathematics High Schools on the project themed “Op art” is examined in parallel. Applied in practice are the ideas and conclusions reached at the European Project “Teacher Innovator” (I*Teach) for IT application in project teaching for the formation of non-technical competences in learners, expected in modern society. The usage in the context of the work on the ICT project is in three different directions: 1) programming technologies environment, platform; 2) as a supplemental educational instrument; and 3) for the development of a virtual environment for teaching and communication. The conducted experiment aimed at increasing the effectiveness of the own practice and at the creation of a model that can be repeatedly used in the future Informatics teaching at high schools.