Lukasz Tomczyk
Biographic Data
| ID | 3548796 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lukasz Tomczyk |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lukasz |
| FAMILY NAME | Tomczyk |
| SIGNATURE | TOMCZYK L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Jagiellonian University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5652-1433 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Transforming curriculum design with generative AI: A model for assessing teacher digital competence
The increasing presence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Generative AI (GenAI) tools in education highlights the need for teachers to develop specific digital competencies for effective integration into curriculum planning. This study aimed to design and psychometrically validate a diagnostic instrument, developed by the authors, grounded in an extended version of the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), in order to assess in-service teachers’ b…
Catalysts of Enthusiasm in Teaching Older Adults how to use New Media: An Exploration of Pedagogical Approaches among Trainers of Older Adults in Poland
The article analyses effective methods of teaching older people how to use new technologies, with a particular emphasis on the role played by the attitudes and motivational skills of trainers. The aim of the research conducted in Poland in 2024 was to identify the methods, forms, and teaching aids considered by trainers to be the most effective in stimulating enthusiasm for learning. A qualitative analysis of 192 responses from participants in an…
Integrating AI in Education: An Analysis of Factors Influencing the Acceptance, Concerns, Attitudes, Competencies and Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence Among Polish Teachers
This paper presents the results of a survey on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) among teachers in Poland ( N = 289). The survey, conducted in December 2024 and January 2025, used the extended educational technology acceptance model (EETAM) to capture factors supporting and blocking the integration of AI in education (primary and secondary schools). The aim of the study is to identify factors influencing the acceptance and use of AI tools b…
Empowering the elderly in the information society: Redefining digital education for Polish seniors in the age of rapid technological change
Rapid, continuous, and irreversible technological advancements are reshaping how individuals navigate the information society. The growing range and capabilities of different pieces of software and e-services call for a deeper examination of the relationship between users’ needs and the opportunities presented by access to cyberspace. Redefining the framework of digital and media competences in the light of real-world e-services has become essent…
Fostering Media Literacy: A Systematic Evidence Review of Intervention Effectiveness for Diverse Target Groups
Investigating the effectiveness of media literacy interventions is essential to identify the most promising programs. This 2022 systematic evidence review, guided by the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guideline, aimed to collect and synthesize scientific evidence on effective media literacy intervention programs across different target groups and the used frameworks. A comprehensive search across major scientif…
Digital competence among pre-service teachers: A global perspective on curriculum change as viewed by experts from 33 countries
In the intensely developing information society, the education of pre-service teachers presents an organisational, methodological, and conceptual challenge. Recent years have necessitated reflection on the content and modalities of the formation of digital competence in pre-service teachers. This article - considers which components the digital competences of the new generations of teachers should contain and how this area can be effectively deve…
Teaching digital competence in the use of YouTube and its incidental factors: Development of an instrument based on the UTAUT model from a higher order PLS‐SEM approach
The increasing use of digital resources has changed the way of teaching, where platforms such as YouTube offer large repositories of educational videos. There are many theoretical studies that analyse the digital competences of teachers, but to a lesser extent on the behaviours and use that the teacher makes of this multimedia platform. Thus, the purpose of this study is the development of an instrument in which it is analysed how the behavioural…
How are teachers being attacked online? On cyberbullying and cyberaggression that targets school educators from the student’s perspective
The twin phenomena of cyberbullying and cyberaggression are among the most common e-threats. Today, much is known about the aggression and violence mediated by new media and targeted at students. However, there is still an empirical gap in the consideration of the mechanisms and forms of cyberaggression and cyberbullying targeting teachers. The aim of this study is to present 10 types of cyber-attacks that teachers have been subjected to in Polan…
Problematic Smartphone Use among Young People and the Use of Additional Social Networking Software—an Example from Bosnia and Herzegovina
The aim of the article is to reveal the level of problematic smartphone use (PSU) among young people, with an additional aim being to diagnose the level of use of applications offering ready access to popular social networks (SNS—e.g. Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, Pinterest). The text fills a gap related to the scale and mechanisms of PSUs. The research was conducted in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2022, and is the first study of its kind i…
How often are Polish teachers attacked online
Cyberbullying and cyberaggression are phenomena that have been analysed for more than two decades. However, there is an empirical gap in the literature to characterise the scale of the phenomenon in certain countries and professional groups (e.g. teachers). In order to fill this gap, 733 teachers from Poland responded to questions identifying the scale and mechanisms of Internet attacks resulting from their profession. Based on the data collected…
Video Tutorials in Teacher Education: Benefits, Difficulties, and Key Knowledge and Skills
Shaping the competences of future teachers in a way that is appropriate to the current stage of development of the information society is, in the post-COVID era, a topical and important subject. The accumulation of experience in recent years with the use of digital edtech has forced the search for optimal solutions to support the learning and teaching process. Among such (still undervalued) solutions are video tutorials. This article answers the …
Is real screen time a determinant of problematic smartphone and social network use among young people
Smartphone use by adolescents is increasingly attracting the interest of social scientists, parents, and educational stakeholders (teachers, educators, educational policy makers), generally in a negative context. There are, however, many myths surrounding the issue, resulting from the reproduction of stereotypes about the psychosocial functioning of adolescents in cyberspace, as well as inadequately constructed research tools that measure how new…
Permanent training as a predictor of success in the digital competence of Education teachers carrying out the online tutorial action
The self-perception in digital competence of teachers has been studied in depth in recent years. However, these studies have rarely focused on the process of tutorial action and how to perform this action digitally between the tutor and the students, the teachers and the family. The main objective is to analyze the incidence of continuing education as a mandatory requirement for self-perception of teachers regarding their digital competence. For …
Smartphone Distraction: Italian Validation of the Smartphone Distraction Scale (SDS)
This work aimed to validate the use of the Smartphone Distraction Scale (SDS) in Italy. The SDS was devised to assess distraction related to smartphone use in adult populations. A cross-sectional study was conducted among n = 609 adults (females = 76.4%; mean age = 30.26; SD age = 9.90). An assessment of the factorial structure of the Italian version was carried out using exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). T…
Digital Transformation and Digital Competences of Urban and Rural Polish Youths
This article explores the level of digital competence of young people in Poland, with the indirect aim being to show the differences in the level of digital competence for adolescents living in rural and urban areas. The research covered a sample of 985 respondents, from 11–18 years old, from Poland. The research was carried out within the EU Kids Online network. The survey tool related to the assessment of digital competences covered issues of i…
Terminological, semantic and lexicological aspects of management
The paper deals with the lexicological basis for the creation of a dictionary to be used by pedagogical staff in the management of the educational process. These starting points respect the results of implemented qualitative semantics as well as the analysis of teachers' educational needs. Actually, the individual words should provide a better understanding of the educational reality. Due to current curricular reform, the lexicon used in pedagogi…
Nomophobia and Phubbing: Wellbeing and new media education in the family among adolescents in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Komunikat z badań realizowanych w ramach międzynarodowego projektu badawczego Danube
Dynamiczne zmiany zachodzące we współczesnych społeczeństwach, związane z postępującymi procesami globalizacyjnymi, wymuszają wśród dorosłych konieczność poszerzania i uzupełniania posiadanej wiedzy. Dorośli w europejskich społeczeństwach muszą wykazać się gotowością do uczenia się, stałego podnoszenia własnych kwalifikacji, a niekiedy do przekwalifikowania się i uczenia się czegoś nowego. Inwestowanie w edukację także wśród dorosłych wpisuje się…
Declared and Real Level of Digital Skills of Future Teaching Staff
Digital competence is undoubtedly one of the key skills that teaching staff should possess. Currently, there are many theoretical frameworks and ways to measure skills and knowledge related to the use of information and communication technologies (ICT). This article is an attempt to show the real and declared level of digital skills among future teaching staff. The research was conducted in Poland among 128 students of pedagogical faculties (firs…
Teachers in the lifelong learning process: Examples of digital literacy
The text aims at measuring digital literacy among teachers of the third stage of education in Poland (lower secondary schools). The study was commissioned by the Ministry of National Education and was conducted in 2018 in Poland, and involved a group of 484 teachers. The goal of the research was to present the teachers’ knowledge and skills related to digital threats in the areas of the assessment of the reliability of information, sexting, cyber…
Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic on the Epidemiology of Knee and Shoulder Arthroscopy
The purpose of our study was to comprehensively assess the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on knee and shoulder arthroscopy performed in an orthopedic department of a university hospital in Poland. This study compared the data on all shoulder and knee arthroscopy procedures performed in two different periods: The period of the COVID-19 pandemic in Poland (from March 4, 2020, to October 15, 2020) and the corresponding period prior to the pandemic …
Problematic Internet Use among Youths
Problematic Internet Use (PIU) has of late come to the major attention of researchers of risky behaviours. For parents and teachers in turn, the various pathological forms of Internet use have become more and more noticeable. In recent years, the operationalisation of the term PIU has also been discussed and attempts to measure its various phenomena have been made. In our study, we used the quantitative method—a diagnostic survey designed on the …
The Practice of Downloading copyrighted files among adolescents in Poland: Correlations between piracy and other risky and protective behaviours online and offline
Teachers’ Knowledge on Education for Sustainable Development – Polish Context/Znanje nastavnika o obrazovanju za održivi razvoj – slučaj Poljske
The sustainable development model is considered to be the only one implementing the postulate of intra- and intergenerational justice, and allowing modern societies to develop safely. Because education makes it possible to achieve complex social goals, the sustainable development model must be implemented in a modern school. For this purpose, UNESCO experts promote education for sustainable development (ESD) as a response to the challenges of the…
Critical thinking, problem-solving strategies and individual development assessment among Neets – research conducted in Slovakia, Poland and Estonia
The paper presents the initial results of research into the individual conditions of the psychosocial functioning of NEETs in the educational context. The study was performed between May and September 2017 in Slovakia, Poland and Estonia, by means of a triangulation of quantitative tools. The general objective of the study is to diagnose the level of critical thinking (Cornell Critical Thinking), reasoning (T.I.P.), problem-solving strategies (NC…
Fear of Missing Out (Fomo) among youth in Bosnia and Herzegovina — Scale and selected mechanisms
Factors reducing the risk of internet addiction in young people in their home environment
Digital Transformation and Digital Competences of Urban and Rural Polish Youths
This article explores the level of digital competence of young people in Poland, with the indirect aim being to show the differences in the level of digital competence for adolescents living in rural and urban areas. The research covered a sample of 985 respondents, from 11–18 years old, from Poland. The research was carried out within the EU Kids Online network. The survey tool related to the assessment of digital competences covered issues of i…
Nomophobia and Phubbing: Wellbeing and new media education in the family among adolescents in Bosnia and Herzegovina
The Practice of Downloading copyrighted files among adolescents in Poland: Correlations between piracy and other risky and protective behaviours online and offline
Critical thinking, problem-solving strategies and individual development assessment among Neets – research conducted in Slovakia, Poland and Estonia
The paper presents the initial results of research into the individual conditions of the psychosocial functioning of NEETs in the educational context. The study was performed between May and September 2017 in Slovakia, Poland and Estonia, by means of a triangulation of quantitative tools. The general objective of the study is to diagnose the level of critical thinking (Cornell Critical Thinking), reasoning (T.I.P.), problem-solving strategies (NC…
Cyberbullying in 2010 and 2015 — A perspective on the changes in the phenomenon among adolescents in Poland in the context of preventive action
Factors reducing the risk of internet addiction in young people in their home environment
M alinowski, B ronisław
Bronisław Kasper Malinowski was a Polish anthropologist, ethnographer, and sociologist. Malinowski is often considered as a pioneer in the ethnographic field research methods, such as participant observation, interviews, and statistics. His studies focused on beliefs and forms of social organization. Malinowski is often recognized as one of the founders of modern social anthropology and functionalism.
Cyberbullying in 2010 and 2015 — A perspective on the changes in the phenomenon among adolescents in Poland in the context of preventive action
Existential Perspective of Biography-related Reflection in the Intergenerational Narrative Messages
This article presents the results of a qualitative research study on intergenerational messages of Polish female seniors. Letters from seniors to the younger generation were investigated. In their narratives, the seniors focused a lot on self-reflection about death and dying—this is due to the theme which was to inspire the letters: My life—my death. The messages exposed an affirmative attitude toward the old age, the significance of faith and re…
Teachers’ Knowledge on Education for Sustainable Development – Polish Context/Znanje nastavnika o obrazovanju za održivi razvoj – slučaj Poljske
The sustainable development model is considered to be the only one implementing the postulate of intra- and intergenerational justice, and allowing modern societies to develop safely. Because education makes it possible to achieve complex social goals, the sustainable development model must be implemented in a modern school. For this purpose, UNESCO experts promote education for sustainable development (ESD) as a response to the challenges of the…
Critical thinking, problem-solving strategies and individual development assessment among Neets – research conducted in Slovakia, Poland and Estonia
The paper presents the initial results of research into the individual conditions of the psychosocial functioning of NEETs in the educational context. The study was performed between May and September 2017 in Slovakia, Poland and Estonia, by means of a triangulation of quantitative tools. The general objective of the study is to diagnose the level of critical thinking (Cornell Critical Thinking), reasoning (T.I.P.), problem-solving strategies (NC…
Fear of Missing Out (Fomo) among youth in Bosnia and Herzegovina — Scale and selected mechanisms
The Practice of Downloading copyrighted files among adolescents in Poland: Correlations between piracy and other risky and protective behaviours online and offline
Problematic Internet Use among Youths
Problematic Internet Use (PIU) has of late come to the major attention of researchers of risky behaviours. For parents and teachers in turn, the various pathological forms of Internet use have become more and more noticeable. In recent years, the operationalisation of the term PIU has also been discussed and attempts to measure its various phenomena have been made. In our study, we used the quantitative method—a diagnostic survey designed on the …
Declared and Real Level of Digital Skills of Future Teaching Staff
Digital competence is undoubtedly one of the key skills that teaching staff should possess. Currently, there are many theoretical frameworks and ways to measure skills and knowledge related to the use of information and communication technologies (ICT). This article is an attempt to show the real and declared level of digital skills among future teaching staff. The research was conducted in Poland among 128 students of pedagogical faculties (firs…
Teachers in the lifelong learning process: Examples of digital literacy
The text aims at measuring digital literacy among teachers of the third stage of education in Poland (lower secondary schools). The study was commissioned by the Ministry of National Education and was conducted in 2018 in Poland, and involved a group of 484 teachers. The goal of the research was to present the teachers’ knowledge and skills related to digital threats in the areas of the assessment of the reliability of information, sexting, cyber…
Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic on the Epidemiology of Knee and Shoulder Arthroscopy
The purpose of our study was to comprehensively assess the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on knee and shoulder arthroscopy performed in an orthopedic department of a university hospital in Poland. This study compared the data on all shoulder and knee arthroscopy procedures performed in two different periods: The period of the COVID-19 pandemic in Poland (from March 4, 2020, to October 15, 2020) and the corresponding period prior to the pandemic …
Terminological, semantic and lexicological aspects of management
The paper deals with the lexicological basis for the creation of a dictionary to be used by pedagogical staff in the management of the educational process. These starting points respect the results of implemented qualitative semantics as well as the analysis of teachers' educational needs. Actually, the individual words should provide a better understanding of the educational reality. Due to current curricular reform, the lexicon used in pedagogi…
Nomophobia and Phubbing: Wellbeing and new media education in the family among adolescents in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Komunikat z badań realizowanych w ramach międzynarodowego projektu badawczego Danube
Dynamiczne zmiany zachodzące we współczesnych społeczeństwach, związane z postępującymi procesami globalizacyjnymi, wymuszają wśród dorosłych konieczność poszerzania i uzupełniania posiadanej wiedzy. Dorośli w europejskich społeczeństwach muszą wykazać się gotowością do uczenia się, stałego podnoszenia własnych kwalifikacji, a niekiedy do przekwalifikowania się i uczenia się czegoś nowego. Inwestowanie w edukację także wśród dorosłych wpisuje się…
Video Tutorials in Teacher Education: Benefits, Difficulties, and Key Knowledge and Skills
Shaping the competences of future teachers in a way that is appropriate to the current stage of development of the information society is, in the post-COVID era, a topical and important subject. The accumulation of experience in recent years with the use of digital edtech has forced the search for optimal solutions to support the learning and teaching process. Among such (still undervalued) solutions are video tutorials. This article answers the …
Is real screen time a determinant of problematic smartphone and social network use among young people
Smartphone use by adolescents is increasingly attracting the interest of social scientists, parents, and educational stakeholders (teachers, educators, educational policy makers), generally in a negative context. There are, however, many myths surrounding the issue, resulting from the reproduction of stereotypes about the psychosocial functioning of adolescents in cyberspace, as well as inadequately constructed research tools that measure how new…
Permanent training as a predictor of success in the digital competence of Education teachers carrying out the online tutorial action
The self-perception in digital competence of teachers has been studied in depth in recent years. However, these studies have rarely focused on the process of tutorial action and how to perform this action digitally between the tutor and the students, the teachers and the family. The main objective is to analyze the incidence of continuing education as a mandatory requirement for self-perception of teachers regarding their digital competence. For …
Smartphone Distraction: Italian Validation of the Smartphone Distraction Scale (SDS)
This work aimed to validate the use of the Smartphone Distraction Scale (SDS) in Italy. The SDS was devised to assess distraction related to smartphone use in adult populations. A cross-sectional study was conducted among n = 609 adults (females = 76.4%; mean age = 30.26; SD age = 9.90). An assessment of the factorial structure of the Italian version was carried out using exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). T…
Digital Transformation and Digital Competences of Urban and Rural Polish Youths
This article explores the level of digital competence of young people in Poland, with the indirect aim being to show the differences in the level of digital competence for adolescents living in rural and urban areas. The research covered a sample of 985 respondents, from 11–18 years old, from Poland. The research was carried out within the EU Kids Online network. The survey tool related to the assessment of digital competences covered issues of i…
Digital competence among pre-service teachers: A global perspective on curriculum change as viewed by experts from 33 countries
In the intensely developing information society, the education of pre-service teachers presents an organisational, methodological, and conceptual challenge. Recent years have necessitated reflection on the content and modalities of the formation of digital competence in pre-service teachers. This article - considers which components the digital competences of the new generations of teachers should contain and how this area can be effectively deve…
Teaching digital competence in the use of YouTube and its incidental factors: Development of an instrument based on the UTAUT model from a higher order PLS‐SEM approach
The increasing use of digital resources has changed the way of teaching, where platforms such as YouTube offer large repositories of educational videos. There are many theoretical studies that analyse the digital competences of teachers, but to a lesser extent on the behaviours and use that the teacher makes of this multimedia platform. Thus, the purpose of this study is the development of an instrument in which it is analysed how the behavioural…
How are teachers being attacked online? On cyberbullying and cyberaggression that targets school educators from the student’s perspective
The twin phenomena of cyberbullying and cyberaggression are among the most common e-threats. Today, much is known about the aggression and violence mediated by new media and targeted at students. However, there is still an empirical gap in the consideration of the mechanisms and forms of cyberaggression and cyberbullying targeting teachers. The aim of this study is to present 10 types of cyber-attacks that teachers have been subjected to in Polan…
Problematic Smartphone Use among Young People and the Use of Additional Social Networking Software—an Example from Bosnia and Herzegovina
The aim of the article is to reveal the level of problematic smartphone use (PSU) among young people, with an additional aim being to diagnose the level of use of applications offering ready access to popular social networks (SNS—e.g. Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, Pinterest). The text fills a gap related to the scale and mechanisms of PSUs. The research was conducted in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2022, and is the first study of its kind i…
How often are Polish teachers attacked online
Cyberbullying and cyberaggression are phenomena that have been analysed for more than two decades. However, there is an empirical gap in the literature to characterise the scale of the phenomenon in certain countries and professional groups (e.g. teachers). In order to fill this gap, 733 teachers from Poland responded to questions identifying the scale and mechanisms of Internet attacks resulting from their profession. Based on the data collected…
Psychology (22 works) · Computer Science (18 works) · Child Development and Digital Technology (12 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Digital literacy in education (9 works) · Pedagogy (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Impact of Technology on Adolescents (8 works) · Mathematics education (8 works) · Sociology (8 works)