ICT IN THE CENTRES OF COMPULSORY EDUCATION: TOWARDS LEARNING COMMUNITIES

There are numerous factors that intervene in educational environments in order to generate and significant and relevant learning for those implied. One of them, established in recent years, has been the use of the computer and Internet in primary and secondary schools, not always with the success anticipated. This is supposing, in many cases, a driving force for changes in the organizing methods and to build 'school' by its agglutinative effect. For some, this is considered a threat, for others an opportunity, but for both groups it offers an element for discussion and action in one way or another. ICT, felt as allies or hostilities, has been introduced in primary and secondary schools and has generated ties of dependence and contribution among the different groups implied, which is what to we refer to when we speak of agglutinative effect. The current article presents the analysis of the data collected in two identifying educational centres identified as centres generating good ICT practices, which at the same time, form part of an Project of Excellence (P07-HUM-03035) financed by the Junta de Andalucia and coordinated by Dr. Angel Boza Carreno, lecturer from Huelva University. In these centres certain dynamics have been developed which reinforce the idea that ICT has favoured indications that a Learning Community is being established.