SummaryBiodiversity loss is a complex issue and a risk that education cannot overlook. Teachers play a crucial role in how biodiversity, and in particular local biodiversity, is understood. To provide insight into how to improve communication on the subject, we investigate teachers’ perspectives and social representations regarding biodiversity, their fluency in terms of Internet use, their familiarity with biodiversity web portals and perceived pedagogical usefulness of technology. A sample of 243 K–12 schoolteachers of multiple scientific domains from eight Azorean islands answered an online survey, including three free-word association tests using inductive terms such as ‘Internet’, ‘biodiversity’ and ‘familiar biodiversity portals’. Overall, the schoolteachers failed to incorporate the multidimensionality of the biodiversity concept (including natural science teachers) or to show technological fluency, and they tended not to use biodiversity web portals as tools to engage students in teaching activities. Our results indicate that teachers’ perspectives about biodiversity need to be broadened and improved and that it is worth exploring whether information and communication technology represents a window of opportunity to do so. As an example, biodiversity web portals, which are widely recognized as trustworthy information repositories, may be used to engage teachers in this endeavour.

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教师对生物多样性门户网站的观点和实践作为重新连接教育与自然的机会

摘要生物多样性丧失是一个复杂的问题，也是教育不能忽视的风险。教师在如何理解生物多样性，特别是当地生物多样性方面发挥着至关重要的作用。为了深入了解如何改善该主题的交流，我们调查了教师对生物多样性的看法和社会表征、他们在互联网使用方面的流畅程度、他们对生物多样性门户网站的熟悉程度以及技术在教学上的实用性。来自八个亚速尔群岛的多个科学领域的 243 名 K-12 学校教师样本回答了一项在线调查，其中包括三个使用“互联网”、“生物多样性”和“熟悉的生物多样性门户”等归纳术语的自由词关联测试。全面的，学校教师未能融入生物多样性概念的多维性（包括自然科学教师）或表现出技术流利性，他们往往不使用生物多样性门户网站作为让学生参与教学活动的工具。我们的结果表明，教师对生物多样性的看法需要拓宽和改进，值得探索信息和通信技术是否代表了这样做的机会之窗。例如，被广泛认为是值得信赖的信息存储库的生物多样性门户网站可用于让教师参与这项工作。我们的结果表明，教师对生物多样性的看法需要拓宽和改进，值得探索信息和通信技术是否代表了这样做的机会之窗。例如，被广泛认为是值得信赖的信息存储库的生物多样性门户网站可用于让教师参与这项工作。我们的结果表明，教师对生物多样性的看法需要拓宽和改进，值得探索信息和通信技术是否代表了这样做的机会之窗。例如，被广泛认为是值得信赖的信息存储库的生物多样性门户网站可用于让教师参与这项工作。