Use of Scratch as ICT Educational Tool in Health
Theodora Argyri1, Emmanouil Zoulias1, Joseph Liaskos1
1Health Informatics Laboratory, Faculty of Nursing, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Abstract:
Education adds knowledge, experience, and skills to the human personality, from childhood to old age. This paper focuses on adult education, presenting the difficulties, techniques and results that have been demonstrated to produce educational training program, including material using Scratch. Referring to the planned education from the school, university or any other institution, the educators have a duty to share their knowledge with the students, to show them the way of knowledge, learning, and exploration. They are constantly looking for new training techniques and methods that will attract anyone interested. An important role in this continuous effort is called to play the technology, which nowadays evolves. This paper addresses some of the advantages and disadvantages of technology in health training, how technology can be used and how it can be combined with training. In addition, important issues for health training are mentioned. The training program, the target group to which it is addressed, the means to be used and the objectives are presented in detail. Finally, technological training programs were created, which will enrich the specially designed training program, for which the methodology used, and their purpose will be analyzed.
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