Monika Frania, picture taken from the website
Monika Frania came in September 2015 at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of University of Split as a NEWFELPRO fellow. During the following 12 months she has successfully implemented her project called The Role of Media and New Technologies in Teacher Education in the Digital Era - Selected Challenges in the Context of an Innovative Future (MaNTinEdu).
The project was focused on the diagnosis of the presence, usefulness and role of media and new technologies in the training of future teachers and educators. Based on the methods used in social studies project aims to analyze and compare the media content and new technologies taught as part of university curricula as well as diagnose how media are used by future teachers during formal and informal education and evaluate their knowledge of threats in cyberspace. Final result will be practical guidance in area of teaching and learning.
As a project manager she participated at the following academic conferences and seminars:
The project was focused on the diagnosis of the presence, usefulness and role of media and new technologies in the training of future teachers and educators. Based on the methods used in social studies project aims to analyze and compare the media content and new technologies taught as part of university curricula as well as diagnose how media are used by future teachers during formal and informal education and evaluate their knowledge of threats in cyberspace. Final result will be practical guidance in area of teaching and learning.
As a project manager she participated at the following academic conferences and seminars:
- Scientific seminar Meanders of Media Education in Poland – selected perspectives at the University of Silesia / The Scientific Information Centre and Academic Library (CINIBA) in Katowice, Poland (1/2016). She presented two speches there: The glance at higher education in Split and the role of the media and new technologies in the training of future teachers and educators, The crossroads and frontiers of media education and media literacy.
- Conference The Media & Learning 2016, Flemish Ministry of Education, Brussels, Belgium (3/2016). She had a lecture called Media for Future Teachers and Educators – Examples of Reasearch and Practice.
- Scientific conference Pedagogical Innovation in Academia: Opportunities, Challenges and Good Practice at the Institute of Foreign Languages and Pedagogy of Jan Dlugosz Unioversity, Czestochowa, Poland (4/2016). She presented a speech New Technologies and media in the Education of future teachers and educators in Poland and Croatia.
- Transnational „Boys reading “ Conference at Faculty of Humanities and Social Science in Split (6/2016). She had a lecture on E-Books as an example of a Potentional Tool Designed to Develop Reading Interests and Support Education in the World of Convergence of Traditional and New Media
- Scientific Conference Developing Media Literacy in Public Eduacation in Public Education; A Regional Priority in a Mediatized Age at the Institute of Behavioral Sciences and Communication Theory, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary (6/2016).
Results of her project can be find in following papers:
- Monika Frania, Obecnosc narzedzi medialnych w ksztalceniu pedagogow i nauczycieli w Polsce i Chorwacji – zarys diagnostyczno-porownawczy, „Prace Naukowe Akademii im. Jana Dlugosza w Czestochowie. Pedagogika“ t. XXV, NR 1, Czestochowa 2016.
- Monika Frania, Potential of Media and New Technologies in Pedagogical –Educational Work in the Opinion of Croatian and Polish Students, „General and Professional Education“ 1/2017 (in print).
- Monika Frania, Self-assessment of attitude towards media and knoeledge of safety in cyberspace of the future pedagogues and teachers in Croatia and Poland, Croatian Journal of Education (in review).
- Chapter on monograph - Monika Frania, E-book as an Example of a Potential Tool Designed to Develop Reading Interests and Support Education in the World of Convergence of Traditional and New Media, in Reading in Early Adollescence (in print).
After the completion of the project she plans to continue her work as a a scientist and an academic teacher at University of Silesia in Katowice. In the next three years she would like to complete the next required level on her academy path in Poland. She would like to continue her cooperation with Scientist in Charge from University in Split. She will search for some other opportunities to take part or to lead other projects in international cooperation. Her aim is to conduct further reaserach in topics connected with media, education, media literacy, new technologies in teaching and learning. In 2017 she is planning to publish the book about blended learning, mobile learning and new media in education.