The usage of modern means of ICT in the professional training of future teachers: experience of France

Abstract

The article studies the peculiarities of the introduction of modern means of information and communication technologies (ICT) and the possible links between ICT and educational relationship in the process of development of professional competences of future teachers in the universities of France. The issue of methods and means of using ICTs in the educational process in French higher educational institutions, the role of such key factors related to the subject-subject relations as power, authority, asymmetry or distribution of roles, conditions of interaction and transaction between the partners are covered in the use and updating of ICT.
The purpose of the study is to generalize the introduction of modern ICT tools at the universities of France in the context of the professional development of future teachers, to identify and analyze the factors of the possible impact of ICT on subject-subject relations at the university.
The thesis analyzes the results of the researches of French scientists concerning the place of ICT in university pedagogical practice and their influence on the relations between teachers and students, namely: the interaction of teachers and students in the use of ICT, the implementation of ICT and their impact on the educational relationship, differences between teachers and students, temporal subject-subject relations.
The application of modern means of ICT in the educational process influences very differently on the teacher training and the development of pedagogical skills in particular, and is conditioned by the tendency to individualize student learning, disclosing the individual potential of each student, improving the quality of teaching materials, increasing the volume of independent work, providing quality educational information in a convenient time for a student anywhere.
The prospect of further research is seen in the improvement of knowledge about the manifestation of the mechanisms of occurrence of relational models with the introduction of modern ICT tools, which is one of the aspects of the development of professional competences in the process of training future teachers.