Training Teachers to Use Digital Resources for the Knowledge Society

Abstract

Knowledge society is a learning society with knowledge and competences evolving continuously. Teachers, as the most important asset in such a society, need to be life long learners. Technology should also be used to help teachers access, compose and manage their learning under various circumstances. This article presents the arguments for two succesful programmes that aimed at creating a coherent system that could lead to the formation of key competences in preschoolers for ensuring a succesful school start and for creating further a life long learning style. This involved the creation of an information and learning electronic community as an opportunity for teachers to form new professional competences for using the system of digital resources and services available to children, to share examples of good practices, to improve the collaboration between kindergardens, schools and families through joint educational programmes.