New Technologies and the Training of Teachers

The connection between teaching and the new technologies, particularly data processing, is not a matter for the remote future; it already exists and is developing. It is therefore essential that its application and objectives in the educational fields should be controlled, if this potent tool for educational reform is not to share the fate of so many previous innovations which have come to nothing. The initial and in-service training of teachers is the keystone of the system and the guarantee of its success. It is of primary importance, in view of all the changes brought about by the introduction of the new technologies in both the teacher/pupil relationship and teaching aims and methods.