Social need to educate primary teachers in the use of information and communication technologies (Original).

Abstract

The present work is a review article, which addresses Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and the social need to train primary teachers of upper secondary level in Cuban pedagogical schools, where they acquire professional skills for the use of ICT. The objective is to reflect on the social need to train primary teachers for the use of ICT in the current Pedagogical School. That is why, through a qualitative methodology of exploratory scope and an exhaustive documentary review of the essential elements in relation to the subject in question, the final reflections show the social need to encourage students to apply the use of technologies in contexts diverse and in daily life, integration, systematization and adaptation of ICTs on the basis of science, technology and technique, the development of society, management of scientific information through infotechnological tools, promoting and implementing strategies that facilitate student learning in technological scenarios and expansion of knowledge related to web 2.0 tools in coordination with the knowledge society.