https://doi.org/10.31261/CHOWANNA.2003.20.11
The perspective of over 20 years of activities, research, and reflection on the use of computers, IT tools and methods, or information technologies in pedagogical processes related to education and social communication reveals, on the one hand, significant changes in how these technologies are perceived by the educational community. On the other hand, it highlights persistent tendencies that hinder the use of computers in the work of educators and teachers. In this text, the authors — drawing on research as well as personal experience and opinions — present reflections on the place and role of information technologies in the work of educators and teachers, on the forms and methods of IT education for students in pedagogical fields, and on evolving trends in the theoretical foundations for the use of information technologies in education and social communication. The first computers appeared over 50 years ago. It has been 20 years since the introduction of the first IBM personal computer to the market — a development that revolutionized access to computers and initiated a period of widespread IT application. The origins of the global computer network, the Internet, date back to the 1960s. Over the years, there has been an evolution in the understanding of many concepts related to information technology. Today, the term "computer" refers not only to a widely known device but primarily to an information processor (in the logical sense), which also encompasses local and global networks and multimedia equipment. The computer has become a universal tool in human cognitive activity: it offers a new form of objectifying such activity, allows for the active fulfillment and partial automation of tasks such as analyzing specific aspects of a problem, assigning, assimilating, and supplementing existing data with new information, generating new knowledge based on analysis and inference procedures, and dynamically visualizing objects. The term "information technology" is understood as the combination of computer science with other fields and technologies that interact with it and influence its application in society. Computer science is treated as a discipline that deals with various aspects of information: collecting, storing, processing, presenting, and using information in communication between objects, systems, and people.
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Vol. 1 No. 20 (2003)
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