Information and Communication Technologies in the training of the primary school teacher

Abstract

The development of professional skills in the training of primary school teachers to creatively use Information and Communication Technologies in the direction of the Educational Teaching Process constitutes a requirement in the face of the demands of the contemporary world. In this sense, the preparation that students of the Primary Teachers specialty must receive becomes a challenge and a necessity due to the important role they play in society during the training of new generations of students. The purpose of this paper is to characterize, from a descriptive study, the presence of Information and Communication Technologies in the training process of this type of professional. For its realization, countries from different regions of the world are taken as a reference: Mexico, Argentina, Costa Rica, Spain and Cuba. Methods of the theoretical and empirical level were used in the investigation dialectically, among them the logical history, analysis synthesis, document analysis, interviews and descriptive procedures.