Information and Communication Technologies in the Basic School Reality

In its document Learning to Change: ICT in Schools published in 2001, the OECD considered information and communication technologies (hereinafter referred to as ICT) as one of the means to improve the quality and effectiveness of the education process. ICT could truly be one of the means to improve the quality and effectiveness of the education process, but only provided that we manage to define and use all positive aspects which they offer and eliminate, to the largest degree possible, all negative aspects which may occur when using them. The aim of the dissertation thesis is to contribute to the solution of this complicated task. The theoretical part of the thesis deals with the determinants influencing the implementation of ICT into education in the second stage of basic schools (lower secondary, attended by children aged 11-15 years), particularly the state information policy in education, implementation of ICT into curriculum documents, approach of schools to computer technologies, equipment of schools with computer technologies (including Internet connection), teachers' digital literacy, availability of quality teaching software and other supporting materials. The aim of the research was both the historical development and the current situation. The theoretical part is supplemented with the..