Trends in using new technologies in school education

Information and Communication technologies (ICT), i.e. computer networks and hypermedia systems (World Wide Web in particular) and the pervasiveness of the Internet have stimulated a vast quantity of investigations into the opportunities and challenges that might be offered or met into the field of education. It is argued that most investigations are focused on questions like “given a technology T, what are the successful applications A(T)?”. On the contrary, we believe that the “marriage ” between the “technology push ” and the “learning pull ” should be dominated by the latter. The educators should be conscious of the unique pedagogical/learning advantages offered by ICT when deciding to use them and not use them because of “technolove ” or “technological determinism ” or even “techno-lust”. In this paper, the effort will be on analyzing analyze the trends in applying new technologies in school environments thus creating a conceptual framework which the educators can use to justify the ICT choice in education. 1