How Often do Pre-School Teachers in Greece Use Nt and ICT in Their Classrooms? A Study of Continuing Education Needs

Abstract

During the last five years one of the main goals of Educational Departments in Greece has been to prepare teachers who, amongst other tasks, must be able to apply New Technologies to their everyday teaching and use Information and Communication Technologies to retrieve information about many classroom activities. This study refers to the courses taught on New Technologies and Information and Communication Technologies, at a postgraduate level, in a continuing education programme, at the Department of Pre-school Education at the University of Ioannina, Greece. It also discusses the use of New Technologies by in-service pre-school teachers as well as their expectations of the application of New Technologies to kindergartens. Their suggestions for better training in the use of New Technologies during their undergraduate studies, and the problems of applying them in the classroom, are also presented.

Monitoring of the Educational Process with the Use of Information and Communication Technologies: A Case Study in Computer Science

“…They transfer the necessary complex of didactic materials in electronic form that enriches traditional forms of educational activities, improve the efficiency of educational systems, the quality of training students in general (Chen, 2011;Khan, Bibi & Hasan, 2016;Pange, 2004;Robertson, 2003). The quality of students' training characterizes the result of educational activity -the level of readiness, but also the factors of this result, which depends on the purpose of education, content and methodology of organization and technology.…”