INFORMATIONAL CAPABILITY OF TEACHER SFOR NEW GENERATION OF STUDENTS EDUCATION

Abstract

Today's generations of students are growing up in the digital technology world by communicating and adopting knowledge on a daily basis in a completely different way from older generations that did not grow up with new technologies. Technology has drastically changed the way that today's generation of students lives, works, learns and thinks. Such generations also require teachers who can follow their interests and needs. However, often due to insufficient IT skills or lack of information and communication means, teachers can not introduce new, more modern forms of knowledge acquisition into the teaching process that would be in line with today's new generation needs of students. It is why the aim of this paper to point out how many teachers, who are employed in elementary schools of the Unsko-sanski Canton in Bosnia and Herzegovina, are informatically trained and how prepared they are for advancing their digital knowledge and applying it in the teaching process. Also, in this paper we will show how much the length of the teacher 's workload affects their views on the need to introduce information - communication technology into the teaching process. The research conducted in March 2019 on a sample of 90 teachers will point to some of the school's teachers' deficiencies and needs to devote much more attention to IT skills and to the advancement of digital knowledge in the coming period.