EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Education and Training

Education and Training

New Information Technologies and Communications have evolved dramatically in recent years, particularly due to its ability to interconnect through the network this new phase of development will have great impact on the organization of teaching and the process learning. The accommodation of the learning environment to this new potential and the appropriate use of the teaching is an unprecedented challenge. They have to know the limits and dangers that new technologies pose to education and reflect on the new model of society that emerges from this technology and its consequences.

1. The revolution digital

No one doubt that the advent of information technology and communication have led to a revolution as important as what caused the invention of writing or printing. But while the great discoveries that have marked the evolution of civilizations is spaced in time, the current revolution has occurred in a very short space of time, has invaded all sectors of social life and is on track to change the bases of the economy (WBG, 2002).

On the basis of the digital revolution are three major areas: electronics, digitization and telecommunications. Electronics at an early stage led to the development of analogue applications: telephone, radio, television, magnetic records audio and video, fax, etc. Digitization has provided a system m ore than abstract and artificial representation of information, whether text, image, audio or video, which improves storage systems, handling and transmission while also, facilitates the development of software to interact with machines. Finally telecommunications have given above, the interconnection capacity.

The paradigms of the new technologies are computer networks. Computers, isolated, we offer a lot of possibilities, but increase its functionality connected by several orders of magnitude. Forming networks, computers are used not only to process information stored on physical media (hard disk, floppy, CD ROM, etc.) In any digital format, but also as a tool to access information, resources and services provided by remote computers as a system of publication and dissemination of information and as a means of communication between human beings. This has made ??the Internet a phenomenon that must be run from now on all spheres of human activity, including education (Lytras, 2010).

The consequences of these developments are leading to continuous changes in our economic structures, social and cultural rights. His great impact on all aspects of our lives makes it difficult for us to act efficiently regardless of them: the world of work, health, economic and bureaucratic management, industrial or artistic design, interpersonal communication, information, quality of life or education (Lytras, 2010).

2. The society of knowledge

Technological innovations have provided mankind new communication channels and vast sources of information they disseminate models of social behaviour, attitudes, values, forms of organization, etc. We've gone from a situation where information was scarce to another where the information is extremely abundant, even excessive. We live in the so-called information society.

The new order computer has become an engine of social change. The economy and culture has gone global. In the society that emerges from the digital ...