Abstract

ARCO, António José Reis do  and  ARCO, Helena Maria de Sousa Lopes Reis do. Desenvolvimento sustentado e tecnologia educativa: elementos dinamizadores de modificações socioeducativas. Rev. Diálogo Educ. [online]. 2013, vol.13, n.40, pp.939-958. ISSN 1981-416X.

The continuous development of ICT (information and communication technologies) produce, as it happens in other areas of activity, its connection with education, emerging the action field of educational technology, as a training area, becoming indispensable to carry out a continuous reflection and conceptualization about it, based on their development over time and the social influences associated. Taking into account the multiple socio-educational impacts generated by educational technology, always based on their main theoretical and conceptual propositions, indispensably connected to basic elements in this area, such as the representations that arise from the combination of concepts as education, didactics and technology, it is essential to address, similarly, an urgent need nowadays, based in technological literacy, critical to achieving a full integration of technologies in society and education, allowing to achieve all relevance in these areas today. Looking ahead the applicability of ICT as tools in education, encompassing its potential to create spaces and contexts of teaching learning and all contributions they can provide to increase the effectiveness of training processes, is worth detach the relevance of integrate educational technology as a key element of sustainable development strategies, representing an essential feature for optimization and enhancement training, for individuals, groups and communities.

Keywords : Educational Technology; Training; Sustainable Development; Literacy; Social Change.

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