O perspektywie zastosowań komputera w edukacji polonistycznej - horyzont rozpoznania

Abstract

The author of the present paper examines the educational perspectives of the use of computer technique in Polish studies. He assumes incidentally that computerization leads to a new configuration of the hitherto existing elements of culture, among them written media as well as audiovisual ones. These media have always seemed to be in a state of conflict in school practice whereas a computer may help to overcome the opposition between the word-dominated models of culture and those dominated by sound and vision. The author makes a survey of different computer educational programs and valuates them from the point of view of their usability in Polish studies. The majority of practical experiments has proved that computer educational programs teach thinking in a convergent way. There is however a certain domain of the application of a computer and its proper cover which may favor the development of thinking of a divergent, creative type. Such are the programs of wording texts, programs aiding the editorial work on a small scale, graphic ones, and bases of data. An effort to use such programs might help to develop writing abilities of the pupils and help them to connect precision and accuracy of thought with freedom of creative expression.