@article {204, title = {CHEMISTRY FOR GIFTED AND TALENTED: ON-LINE COURSE ON TALNET}, journal = {Problems of Education in the 21st Century }, volume = {11}, year = {2009}, month = {May/2009}, type = {Original article}, chapter = {14-20}, abstract = {Education of the gifted and talented children, as potential contributors for the whole society, is emphasized and actively supported in the educational policy of the European Union. The project {\textquotedblleft}Talnet {\textendash} Online to Science{\textquotedblleft} originated in Czech Republic is one example of a wide scale of extracurricular activities focused on the education of the gifted and talented. The methods used in Talnet are based mostly on the interaction of the experts with the children, primarily in the on-line {\textquotedblleft}T-courses{\textquotedblleft}. The paper describes the structure, content and results of a two-semester on-line course {\textquotedblleft}Biochemistry and Natural Compounds{\textquotedblright} that integrates the problem solving method with the home-made chemistry experiments in the form of an e-learning course. About ten talented high-school students from Czech and Slovak Republic participated in the first semester of the course. According to the evaluation results, the students find the course interesting and enriching. Four final theses were written and will be defended; one of them is intended to be applied for the national Contest for Young Scientists.}, keywords = {chemistry experiment, distance learning, gifted and talented}, issn = {1822-7864}, url = {http://oaji.net/articles/2014/457-1392408099.pdf}, author = {Hana B{\"o}hmov{\'a} and Milada Ro{\v s}tejnsk{\'a}} } @article {205, title = {CHEMISTRY FOR SOCIETY: NEW EMPHASIS IN EDUCATION}, journal = {Problems of Education in the 21st Century }, volume = {11}, year = {2009}, month = {May/2009}, type = {Original article}, chapter = {21-27}, abstract = {In 2007 the cooperation between the Department of Teaching and Didactics of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague and the German members of the project CITIES (Chemistry and Industry for Teachers in European Schools) was established. This paper presents information on the results of the cooperation and on a practical laboratory course developed for the further education of European chemistry teachers. According to the aims of the CITIES project, the new experiments presented in the course focuse on the connections between chemical industry and the school chemistry education and on the contributions of chemistry to the whole society. The course was realized for two groups of Czech secondary school chemistry teachers and the evaluation data were obtained from the questionnaire prepared by the German colleagues.}, keywords = {chemistry experiment, science education}, issn = {1822-7864}, url = {http://journals.indexcopernicus.com/abstract.php?icid=886197}, author = {Hana B{\"o}hmov{\'a} and Eva Urv{\'a}lkov{\'a} and Renata {\v S}ulcov{\'a}} } @article {38, title = {CHEMISTRY EXPERIMENT IN DISTANCE EDUCATION}, journal = {Problems of Education in the 21st Century }, volume = {2}, year = {2007}, month = {September/2007}, type = {Original article}, chapter = {15-20}, abstract = {In compliance with the National Programme for Development of Education in the Czech Republic and the draft of the Act of Preschool, Primary, Secondary, Higher Secondary and Other Education, a new system of curricular documents for education of pupils between 3 and 19 years is implemented. On the state level, the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport creates the curricular documents called the Framework Educational Programmes. These documents define the standard educational contents for preschool, primary and secondary school. The Framework Educational Programme for General Secondary Education emphasizes an appropriation of critical thinking and scientific method of research in science education. As far as chemistry education is concerned, this requirement is naturally realized by the pupil{\textquoteright}s work on chemistry experiments. The information and communication technologies (ICT) development provides an opportunity for utilization also in education. The Department of Teaching and Didactics of Chemistry is preparing new secondary school chemistry teachers. We are concerned with usage of the ICT in chemistry education particularly in relation to the chemistry experiment. Experiment is a vital part of chemistry education, but the science experimental work is not frequently used in distance education or e-learning courses yet. In the contribution presented here we would like to share our experience with extension of distance courses by bringing chemistry experiment to learners. We present interesting examples of experiments used in blended chemistry courses for students at every level of education system as well as in on-line chemistry course for wide population of non-chemists.}, keywords = {chemistry experiment, distance education}, issn = {1822-7864}, url = {http://oaji.net/articles/2014/457-1392219751.pdf}, author = {Hana B{\"o}hmov{\'a} and Renata {\v S}ulcov{\'a}} }