This document discusses the importance of integrating technology into education. It notes that society has undergone rapid technological transformation, so teachers must provide education that reflects this reality. While ICTs offer potential to transform education, many teachers have not been properly trained to integrate technology into their teaching. To better prepare students for the future, the document argues that teachers need appropriate training, classrooms need to be equipped with computers, and teachers should be encouraged to teach in new ways using technology. The integration of technology into education will depend on making technological innovations part of the educational culture.

1. FUNDACION UNIVERSITARIA LUIS AMIGO
Facultad de Education
MARIA DOLLY GIRALDO CALLE
AMBIENTES TECNOLOGICOS

2. 2013
When faced with a steam-rolling technology, you either become part of the technology or part
of the road”
Nigel Willets
INTRODUCTION
Through all my scholar days I have never been a literary snob, I believe all reading is
good reading, but for some reason I pay special attention to this three documents of
Ambientes Tecnologicos, once I start reading, I began devouring “How to integrate
ICTs in education”
this document encouragements to broaden my horizon about the
new technologies, it was strange, every time I was reading a line,
a paragraph I
encountered the need to read more and more.
I was in the middle of the reading,
kept reading
reading became monotonous, but I never stop, I
and reading and found this “teachers may become involved in the
integration of ICTs” and
this words call my attention, may be this words reminds me
something real, it becomes a buzzwords, serving to evoke specific emotional
responses, an encounter with a real world, our world that we live right now, the endless
problem that Colombia and the world are facing, we are preparing our students for a
society that no longer exists. Colombia is among the European Union Countries with

3. more and more school system failure, youth unemployment, school desertion, because
we are not preparing our students for a good future, we must make a clear an objective
diagnosis of what is wrong and also recognize the mistakes of the past, we need to
adjust our education system to changing times and establish a plan of action together
with teachers, parents, students.
Technology integration in face to face education
In retrospect to the past, and looking closely the aggressive transformation that the
world has been experienced
in recent years, the ICTs has become one of the
cornerstone of today society and the teachers today must provide an education that
reflect this reality, I think is impossible understand the world today without a minimum o
computer culture, we must understand how its generated, how it is stored, how it
changes, how its transmitted and how to access the information in its many forms, we
the future teachers must try to participate in the generation of that culture. But here it’s
the great question, how and why to integrate the ICTs in education?
I strongly believe that internet era require big changes in education, the ICTs offers
enormous potential to transform education, this changes are necessary to provide
update and quality education, nowadays our classrooms must provide to the students a
rich virtual learning environment
because is a response to the social needs for

4. educational change, we are in a world highly mediated by technology , we are in century
XXI.
How to teach in the XXI century? How to integrate the use of technology in everyday
practice? Well, its well known that the internet has dramatically changed the way the
students learn, the mobile internet, the social networks, are shaping forms of learning
and interaction that the educational systems in schools, universities
have become
obsolete, therefore, urges that teachers are updated with the ICTs. But there is a
problem teachers are not prepared to this challenge, they don’t know how to use the
computer in creating innovative opportunities for their students, they do not receive any
training on the subject, some of them just attend a course on managing “hardware” and
“software”, but very few are trained to integrate the ICTs to their programs.
The integration of ICTs in education seems uncertain, and nobody questions the
capacity of our teachers nowadays but the teachers role has changed ostensibly, now
teachers has to stop transmitting information, like it or dislike us, the teacher of the
future can not be like the present, if society changes the school changes as a result of
the demands and the teacher necessarily is involved to change. How those changes
should be? How to prepare school to meet this needs? I believe that we have to
prepare prospective teachers to incorporate technology into their teaching, classrooms
equipped with computers, give appropriate training to teachers, and something very
important is to encourage teachers to teach in ways they have not taught before.
In conclusion in order to successfully integrate technology in education, the use of
technology needs to become part of our culture, because we need to be aware that in a
near future every child, every student will have a tablet-sized computer connected to a
wireless network, and the educational benefits of coming technological innovations will

5. depend upon how we plan for this future, and remember the future is here, we are in a
connected world, in a networked world, in virtual learning environments!.
End.

6. depend upon how we plan for this future, and remember the future is here, we are in a
connected world, in a networked world, in virtual learning environments!.
End.