PolishStudies_MindTech is part of a multimodal approach to Polish Studies education, developed as part of OMBEiK’s research activities. Its basic element is the use of advanced technologies and digital environments in school and academic didactics, especially in working with literary texts and shaping new interpretative competences of pupils and students. PolishStudies_MindTech focuses mainly on technopaideia – education with the use of tools of information technology, but oriented towards the cognitive specificity of the humanities. As part of this approach, we promote the need to change the empirically-oriented model of how so-called high-tech schools operate, especially with regard to humanities subjects. We propose to move away from their scientisation, i.e. away from the STEAM model to HUM education, to use the potential of heritage sites, drift strategies and to increase the role of gamified classes in Polish Studies education.
Activities related to a multimodal approach to education:
- cooperation with the Malopolska Science Centre COGITEON – coordination of projects focusing on participation in texts of culture (coordinator: Anna Włodarczyk) – since 2022/2023;
- participation in the National Scientific Conference on Metaworlds in March 2023 – conference organisers: Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, Progressive Arts Institute Foundation, L. Koźmiński Academy, Audiovisual Culture Foundation and AI Law Tech (Anna Włodarczyk).
- participation in the national conference Metaworlds, 28 October 2023, Krakow, Kijów Cinema, Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, Institute of Progressive Arts. Presentation: Archaeology as futurology. Some remarks on forecasting the past (Sebastian Borowicz);
- series of meetings with the painter Professor Adam Wsiołkowski (as part of a seminar led by Anna Włodarczyk) – in 2023 and 2024;
- a series of LIBERATURE workshops for students of the Faculty of Polish Studies, led by Mr Zenon Fajfer (as part of a seminar conducted by Anna Włodarczyk) – 2023 and 2024;
- conducting classes for students of the Faculty of Intermedia at the Academy of Fine Arts and the Faculty of Polish Studies at the Jagiellonian University by Anna Włodarczyk (within the framework of seminars conducted by Prof. Grzegorz Biliński – 2023/2024) and initiating a joint artistic project: ‘The Poetry Room’;
- visits to the studio and ateliers of the Faculty of Intermedia at the Academy of Fine Arts (as part of a seminar led by Anna Włodarczyk) – 2023/2024;
- organisation of workshops at the Museum of Photography in Krakow entitled: “Hear the portrait. Deaf and Hearing people in the privacy of the museum” – January 2024 (coordinator: Anna Włodarczyk).
