The Implementation of ICT in Secondary Schools in Catalonia

Abstract

One of the features that characterises our society is that ICT is present worldwide, specially in all productive processes and daily activities [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]. In the last decades there have been deep changes, such as the uprise of the world wide web and globalization [6], along with the convergence of new forces, including knowledge tools, thinking tools, digital lifestyles and learning research, that have led to new learning ways to live in the 21st century [7]. Furthermore, Europe today is immersed in a transformation period, due to an important economic crisis that has made the European Union to establish strategies to foster an intelligent, sustainable and integrating economy [8].