The impact of innovative learning environments on social competences of youth

Andrej Flogie; Boris Aberšek; Igor Pesek

doi:10.25304/rlt.v27.2214

Andrej Flogie Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5219-9347
Boris Aberšek Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0563-7329
Igor Pesek Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0878-7480

DOI: https://doi.org/10.25304/rlt.v27.2214

Keywords: education system, ICT, psychosocial influence, social competences

Abstract

The exponential development of learning environments supported by information and communication technology (ICT), coupled with new insights from the fields of cognitive and neuroscience and artificial intelligence (AI), is a huge challenge for both the educational system and youths and their social competences. This article defines the impact of an effective use of contemporary education technologies on young people’s engagement and their interest in collaborating with their peers and teachers on the level of interpersonal relationships. It investigates the teachers’ and parents’ perspective on youth and their cooperation when using ICT in the pedagogical process. The study confirms that innovative didactic approaches to teaching, supported by ICT, exert a positive influence on the collaboration between students, as well as between students and their teachers, and that youths, teachers and parents are all equally aware of that. Parents and teachers have a unified position in support of the idea that an effective use of ICT makes a positive contribution to collaboration between students, and thereby directly affects an increase in their social competences. ICT is becoming one of the important variables that affect the development of young people’s social competences. The 2-year study was conducted in the framework of a national project.

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