Norbert Vrabec – Communication Today https://communicationtoday.sk Media, marketing, communication Thu, 26 Jun 2025 13:17:52 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://communicationtoday.sk/wp-content/uploads/cropped-favicon-ct-32x32.png Norbert Vrabec – Communication Today https://communicationtoday.sk 32 32 The Concept of Learning-by-Doing in the Context of Media Education and School Quality Assessment https://communicationtoday.sk/the-concept-of-learning-by-doing-in-the-context-of-media-education-and-school-quality-assessment/ Sun, 19 Apr 2020 17:17:27 +0000 https://www.communicationtoday.sk/?p=3287 ABSTRACT:
The study deals with an investigation of the results of the evaluation of the quality of Slovak secondary schools, with a specific focus on identifying differences between schools that publish a school magazine and schools that do not publish a school magazine. The research sample consisted of a total of 519 secondary schools from all parts of Slovakia, which were evaluated on the basis of 45 indicators based on data from various data sources. As a part of our research study, we worked exclusively with the most up-to-date data relating to secondary schools, obtained from the school year 2018/2019. Our study focuses on a research issue that is whether the existence of a school magazine in any way affects the results of an overall school quality assessment or not. The final data set that we subjected to statistical testing (N = 160) consisted of 80 schools that have a magazine and 80 schools that do not have a magazine. The research hypothesis was statistically evaluated using the Pair test. We accepted the alternative hypothesis, according to which the evaluation results of schools that publish a school magazine are statistically significantly different from schools that do not publish a school magazine. The findings of the research study point to the significant benefit of the existence of the learning-by-doing concept in school practice and point out that the experiential form of learning is effective.

KEY WORDS:
LEARNING-BY-DOING, media education, media literacy, school assessment, school magazines, school media

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]]> Is Media Literacy Still One of the Priorities for Policy Makers? Interview with David Buckingham and Alexander Fedorov https://communicationtoday.sk/media-literacy-still-one-priorities-policy-makers-interview-david-buckingham-alexander-fedorov/ Sun, 06 Nov 2016 16:15:31 +0000 https://www.communicationtoday.sk/?p=1766 ABSTRACT:
The interviews focus on the key question whether media literacy is still in the spotlight of contemporary society. The past decades has seen rapid development of professional and academic interest in the field of media literacy. The theoretical and practical issues that have dominated the field for many years have already drawn attention to the importance of this concept for the individual and for the society. In fact, the introduction of media education in schools and other areas of public life is still being confronted with many challenges. Moreover, the wide range of related problems is becoming less in the centre stage of policy making – at the European and non-European level alike. The interviews address questions about the priorities of educational policy, which should not be focused only on the topics that can directly contribute to economic growth and job creation. Particularly today, at the times of global conflicts and societal as well as cultural transformations, it is very important to develop the critical thinking of citizens – of course, in relation to the media and their society-wide actions and agendas.

KEY WORDS:
critical thinking, digital age, media education, media education policy, media literacy

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]]> Digitálni domorodci na Slovensku: komunikácia a nová identita mládeže v on-line prostredí https://communicationtoday.sk/implementacia-zisteni-o-interakcii-uzivatela-s-propagacnym-posolstvom-na-facebooku-4/ Tue, 07 Jan 2014 12:23:57 +0000 https://www.communicationtoday.sk/?p=248 A research called “On-line generation: information, communication and digital youth participation in the information society” was carried out during 2009 in Slovakia. The aim of this project was primarily an analysis of youth participation in the creation, provision, sharing, communicating and using information in the online environment. The need for the project resulted primarily from the fact that the Internet has completely changed the pattern of communication between humans. The contribution brings the most important research fi ndings and facts of online generation in Slovakia.

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]]> Digitálni domorodci na Slovensku: komunikácia a nová identita mládeže v on-line prostredí https://communicationtoday.sk/implementacia-zisteni-o-interakcii-uzivatela-s-propagacnym-posolstvom-na-facebooku/ Tue, 07 Jan 2014 12:23:57 +0000 https://www.communicationtoday.sk/?p=339 A research called “On-line generation: information, communication and digital youth participation in the information society” was carried out during 2009 in Slovakia. The aim of this project was primarily an analysis of youth participation in the creation, provision, sharing, communicating and using information in the online environment. The need for the project resulted primarily from the fact that the Internet has completely changed the pattern of communication between humans. The contribution brings the most important research findings and facts of online generation in Slovakia.

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