We need to be aware of the importance of integrating ICT skills in our teaching work:
ICT Information and
Communication Technologies
Nowadays,
we live in the midst of a technological revolution: we handle information and
technology devices that we couldn’t imagine in the past. The way we live and
work has totally changed and a series of new capacities and abilities have come
out. Abilities needed to grow and integrate ourselves into the adult life, in a
super-connected society and in a constant and increasing change. Everyday new
electronic devices appear allowing us to create, store, process and transmit
information in real time. We are used to control several devices at home or at
work, creating a new situation really different to earlier times.
For these
reasons, we should not forget the importance of Information and Communication
Technologies in Secondary Education. It is essential to educate our teenagers in
the use of those tools facilitating their interaction with their environment
and teaching them the etic and legal limits that this use imply. Information
and Communication Technologies must be worked in every subject, allowing
students to search, select and process information, as well as to elaborate and
present their academic essays, investigations or projects.
Students in
Secondary Education are digital natives and, as a consequence, they are
familiarized with the presentation and transference of information. The use of
virtual interactive applications allows having practice experiences that, due
to facilities reasons, would not be possible in other circumstances. On the
other hand, it permits the access to a great quantity of information, which
also implies the need to learn how to classify it, developing students’ critic
spirit.
At the end
of Secondary Education, students must have acquired the abilities needed to use
ICT in a proper way, as well as to adapt to its changes, in order to either
incorporate themselves in the professional life or continue their education.
This is the legal document I have used as reference:
Real
Decreto 1105/2014, de 26 de diciembre, por el que se establece el currículo
básico de la Educación Secundaria Obligatoria y del Bachillerato
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