Abstract
This paper deals with the main problem of involving information technology in teacher education - structure and contents of teachers' training courses based on distance learning. In Lithuania, the Standard of computer literacy for educators has been developed. It should be the main source of all teachers' training courses on information technology. The Standard consists of two parts: technological and educational. The main attention of the paper is paid to the analysis and requirements of the educational part that becomes more and more urgent: it requires some psy- chological, cognitive, social, and pedagogical knowledge referring to the information technology usage in education. This paper comprehensively covers the problems of application of information technology in education, course planning, and implementation of distance teaching, it referring to the teachers' training course on educational issues of information technology via distance learning, carried out by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Lithuania and organized by the Centre of Information Technologies of Education, and summarises its results.
Highlights
Information technology (IT) has become one of the basic building blocks of modern society
This paper deals with the main problem of involving information technology in teacher education – structure and contents of teachers’ training courses based on distance learning
The main attention of the paper is paid to the analysis and requirements of the educational part that becomes more and more urgent: it requires some psychological, cognitive, social, and pedagogical knowledge referring to the information technology usage in education
Summary
Information technology (IT) has become one of the basic building blocks of modern society. In order to implement the educational part of the Teachers’ Computer Literacy Standard, in 2002 a draft on teachers’ distance learning was prepared The content of this course was drafted, teaching methods were selected, attendees selected, training material prepared with tasks and tests. Preparation, dissemination, and presentation of training material using technologies These topics influence the drafting process of the educational part of the Teachers’ Computer Literacy Standard, which provides the following main objectives: 1. In the pilot project there was a wish to continue the qualification improvement course expressed: a) the teachers of informatics and ones of related specialities wished to make more profound knowledge of pedagogical-psychological, and social issues; b) the teachers of humanitarian specialities wished more extensive explanation of the topics, related to technical computer use aspects; c) the teachers of all specialities wished to extend the topics of computer support in report’s presentations which wasn’t covered in the technological part.
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