THE IMPORTANCE OF ICT

We can’t encourage and promote the use of ICT, when even the teachers themselves do not use new technologies. Many teachers find them really difficult, so they are not able to integrate ICT in the classes’ dynamics.

Teacher training in ICT is crucial for teaching the foreign language. That´s why, teachers require basic knowledge through which guide students. They must be able to answer questions, technical problems presented during the development of classes, to respond to questions from children about the use of new technologies.

Honestly, I think that the main responsibility of a teacher is to learn the ropes, in this case, using new technologies in order to teach children the advantages and management of these tools. Some years ago people refer to information technologies when they refer to:

-          Hardware and software that allowed to access, save, organize, manipulate... information with electronic media.

Nowadays transmitting information using different devices: telephones, satellites, ...

WHAT DOES COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY MEAN?

•    Term used to refer to the devices that are necessary to connect to the internet.

ICT DEFINITION:

Use of “computers” that control. Everything monitored by a key board or a similar device.

•           Hardware (scanner, Hi-Fi, printer…), including an internet connection.
•           Software (using the appropriate software).
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