ICT AND EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE IN THE MACEDONIAN SCHOOLS

Abstract

After a brief review of the newer history of ICT in Macedonian education and the concrete steps of the Macedonian government in the computerization of both, the Macedonian society, and especially Macedonian primary and secondary schools in the last two years, the paper will discuss about the profile of IT teachers, and the current situation of theirs continuous education in acedonia, as well as, about the continuous education with implementation of ICT of non IT teachers. After the review of the educational portal, follows the brief report for implementation and use the ToolKid software in primary schools by lower primary teachers. In the conclusion the author proposes the further steps and defines the challenges in the field of ICT and education software in Macedonian schools.