ICT in Teaching Computer

ICT in Teaching Computer

Fiorela Anai Fernandez Otoya

Professor assigned to the Department of Science Education USAT

We are currently witnesses and sometimes protagonists of a dazzling reality that carries the brand new track of the information society. In that sense, the learning process is vulnerable to dramatic tone offered by ICTs, which improve and motivate students’ learning, for example current students are more interested in learning mathematics or other subject using educational software than study using traditional resources ( flipcharts , blackboard and chalk speck )

Therefore, today teaching is going through rapid changes, due to the revolution of ICT , allowing in students to increase their capacity and skills of improvement in working class and gather information for their research .

The subject of Teaching Computers continues being a real challenge for us teachers , because it is not only about repeating information already made ​​or transmit knowledge about the area, but teaching to teach, that is, to train future professional, so when he or she  enters to the stage of teaching, he or she can deal effectively and efficiently his/her work. For Sanchez (2007) , teaching is defined as the " scientific discipline that explains the teaching - learning according to the achievement of educational goals." In this sense , the teaching coupled to any branch of human knowledge, should be based on educational outreach goals. That is why we teach computer not only requires mastery of knowledge but an appropriate methodology that allows them to reach students , thus achieving the cherished significant learning and therefore the development of core competencies in students.

Also, this current scenario makes demands of development and adaptation of people or organizations that undoubtedly represents one of the most important challenges, as indicated Chumpitaz (2005 ) : " We must learn to learn to unlearn continuously, along life and, additionally, network learn . "

During my academic stay in Madrid, I clearly remember the words of a professor at the UNED where she said "new technologies are clearly presented as teaching aids to accompany other didactic- curricular activities in the reform proposal, therefore, it is necessary to understand it is a resource with unique characteristics, which the teacher must learn to harness their educational potential."

From this perspective , the course of Teaching Computer must be taught and learned in a creative and innovative way, that is to say, through the use of educational software as an unprecedented response to the time in which we live, because if we look at the present, today we are in a context coloured by the progress of science and technology : " Society of knowledge and information."

Finally, it is unavoidable that the course of Teaching of Computer, is based on technology tools that guarantee compensatory results and leave it clear that the technology has many advantages especially when projected to meet purposes clearly the field of education, where every day is required to innovate.