The influence of the information technology on the role of teachers and on the teaching-learning process

In this article we think about the importance of training teachers in a socio-cultural context where the Internet is progressively influencing our daily lives as a fundamental instrument that affects our studies, jobs, communication, becoming part of our culture. We truly believe that the implications of this fact in the teaching-learning processes affect, on the one hand, the knowledge linked to the deep economic and social changes today, to the new technologies, to the industrial and institutional organisation; On the other hand, a new attitude is required as well as the development of new capacities in the teachers and students. The use of New Information and Communication Technologies, the management of the new environment related to learning processes and the methodological change, necessarily imply a change in mentality, in teaching practices and new roles in the teaching staff.