Belgrade/Paris, Feb. 03, 2010 (Serbia Today) – Minister of Telecommunications and Information Society Jasna Matic presented a project of using the internet social network Facebook for educational purposes at UNESCO on Monday.
In a telephone statement to Beta news agency, Matic said that the pilot project was implemented by Serbian language teacher Violeta Kecman at the Fifth Belgrade High School in her literature classes. When covering the teaching unit of Serbian poets of romanticism, Kecman called on students to make Facebook profiles for poets of this movement and to include facts about their lives, work and achievements. The Minister said that the project was welcomed with great interest by UNESCO because it does not involve any additional costs, moreover it stimulates students to use their free time - which they would spend on the internet anyway - to acquire knowledge. According to Matic, this model can be applied in the teaching of all social subjects, so students can create profiles and communicate about various historical figures and discuss different topics. Matic said that the turnout at the presentation of the UNESCO project was excellent and added that this model will be recommended to teachers across Serbia, while UNESCO will place a similar recommendation on its website and recommend this model to its members. This project is supported by the Serbian Ministry of Education. The presentation in Paris was also attended by Serbian Education Minister Zarko Obradovic.
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