EDUCATIONAL VALENCES OF THE INTERNET IN DIDACTIC ACTIVITIES

When correlating the observations and the results of the activities carried out during the teaching career, it is noticed that, at the social level, the Internet represents a real challenge for the educational use, implying teacher’s competences to transform the power of this massive resource into a learning power, developing modern and effective educational scenarios related to the needs and demands of the actual society. The educational potential of the Internet cannot be exploited without the identification of epistemological and praxiological fundamentals, that underlie on the basis of valorization of this resource. Thus, it appears as a first necessity, to address a series of research in the educational practice, concerning how the Internet can be used to produce real added values towards a qualitative education. As we have seen from the analysis of the curriculum documents, as well as from the analysis of several lessons proposed by the teachers, the educational potential of the Internet is not just about identifying and transferring information, but it can be extended to the formation of a diverse set of skills and to the development of attitudes, behaviors and values. A challenge to which the educational actors - teachers, students or even parents - need to reflect, is represented by the way in which new information and communication technologies are integrated and involved in education, considering the Internet an area with a huge potential, as resource. In this respect, in order to stimulate the use of new technology in education, there is a need for designing holistic, systematic, coherent and consistent approaches.