INTEGRATING ICT AS PEDAGOGICAL AND INNOVATIVE TOOL IN SECONDARY SCHOOL CLASSES

The application of ICT is changing the paradigm of secondary school educational environment. The pedagogical forces include greater information access, communication, synchronous and asynchronous learning, cooperation and collaboration, and pedagogical improvement. The question which a lot of teachers, including the lecturers and researchers from pedagogical faculties keep asking is, whether the implementation of ICT into a teaching process has positive impact on teaching and learning environment. We aimed to verify whether ICT is contributing to the development of teaching and learning processes. To detect and to study the teachers' confidence the CUEFORTIC questionnaire was distributed among secondary school teachers. The results of our research indicate that, where the use of ICT is most effective in enhancing the learning experience, teachers have been able to integrate a number of technologies such as laptops, interactive whiteboards and the internet. Such combinations of hardware, software and connectivity allow them to develop innovative approaches to learning and teaching. ICT has also become integral to the teaching-learning interaction and when teachers are digitally literate and trained to use ICT, these approaches can lead to better thinking skills, provide creative and individualized options for students to express their understandings, and leave students better prepared to deal with ongoing technological change in society and the workplace. (C) 2019 Published by Future Academy www.FutureAcademy.org.UK